Category: Treehouse

This tree off beyond the treehouse’s balcony.

A joke: “You’ll never know what kind of impact you’ll have on this earth until you fall down.”

[daily log: walking, 2km;]

This tree noted that my much-neglected treehouse continues to fail to fall down.

Joke read online (made me laugh): “My π tattoo is taking longer than expected.”

[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 1hr]

This tree was beside the treehouse stairs at just after dawn this morning. The rain has returned, after a 2-day break.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]

This tree was near a treehouse and a yard flamingo under steady rain.

I feel bad for my neglected treehouse. I basically did no work on it this year.

[daily log: walking, 5km; retailing, 9hr]

This tree is outside a newly added glass window on my treehouse. At this rate, I’ll have the treehouse windows completed sometime around the summer of 2030.

[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 4.5km]

This tree (probably the one kind of barely visible on the right) was there when I finally got the tablesaw moved over from my treehouse to my greenhouse-shed-thing. It was quite difficult to move – too heavy to carry and not able to fit through the treehouse door without extensive disassembly – but I moved it and reassembled it successfully.

You might wonder why I had the tablesaw in the treehouse. I’d put it up there a few years ago because a) I was working on the treehouse a lot and it was handy, but more importantly, b) because I was terrified Arthur would do something with the tablesaw under one of his sudden compulsions to be “handy” but where he doesn’t remember how to operate it safely.

Art and I spent a very long, tedious afternoon at the clinic. He had an appointment – it was just a follow up on the lab tests from before – but the doctor was running behind and so we had to sit around a lot.

[daily log: walking, 5km; dogwalking, 3.5km]

This tree saw its view blurred by heavy rain.

The rain was so heavy that the leak-catching bucket in my treehouse overflowed, even though I’d emptied it yesterday.

There was a small flood in my treehouse.

[daily log: walking, 2km;]

This tree observed the installation of a table saw in the treehouse.

I borrowed Arthur’s table saw. I told him that I would rather have it in the treehouse, close to my working area. But in fact, that’s not quite accurate. I actually put the table saw in the treehouse because when I use the table saw in Arthur’s shop, he hovers and tries to help, but his hovering is unhelpful and stresses me out – he wants to tell me I’m doing things wrong, he’s always got very particular ways things should be done. By putting the table saw in the treehouse, he’s unlikely to make the long, arduous journey over there just to watch me “doing it wrong.”

[daily log: walking, 6.5km; c115066077084s]

This tree was blocking a treehouse’s view.

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking 3km; c100060062084s]

This tree saw the framing-in of the west wall of the treehouse.

Now… I still need some more 3/8″ plywood for covering the framed-in walls, and I then need to engineer some doors – the door-openings are of course non-standard sizes (and likely not even square), so the doors will have to be custom-made. This will push my wood-working skills past any previous benchmark, if it proves successful.

[daily log: walking, 6.5km; dogwalking, 3km; c113068075084s]

This tree (there beyond the doorway, I guess) was there as I finished framing-in the east wall of my tree house. There was a severe dearth of right angles involved.

[daily log: walking, 4km; dogwalking, 3km; c107061069085s]

This tree (which sticks up through the floor of my treehouse) was there when I installed a new worktable in my treehouse, which I made with some scrap lumber and a used pallet which I acquired from my place of employment.

[daily log: walking, 7.5km; dogwalking, 3.5km]

This tree is (these trees are?) nefariously blocking an unobstructed view of my treehouse.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km]

This tree helps support the east end of the treehouse. I thought this was a very clear view of the “suspension bridge” style that I use to attach the deck of the treehouse to the tree.

[daily log: walking, 2km; moving and lifting stuff in the treehouse, 2hr]

This tree is in a treehouse. It’s my young coast redwood tree (sequoia sempervirens) planted in a bucket.

Meanwhile, here is my garden’s entire seasonal production of potatoes, with a few late carrots included.

[daily log: walking, 3km; retailing, 6hr]

This tree oversaw the attachment of the first of the south-side roof panels on the treehouse. I’ve now completed 6 out of 10 roof panels.

Here is a nice view of treehouse from down on the beach – I’m standing right at the high-tide line, looking up. I’ve put plastic over the north-side windows to help actually rain-proof the interior, somewhat.

[daily log: walking, 3km; banging and lifting, 5hr]

This tree saw me working hard, very high up, attaching more roof panels to enclose it. Now it and its younger sibling is growing up through holes in the floor and ceiling of the treehouse.

Here is an expanse of roof: I’ve now attached 4.5 out 10 panels. I count as half a panel the one I had to cut for the tree – I’ll get the upslope portion of that panel later.

Here is a not-very-good view up the north eaves, now complete.

[daily log: walking, 2km; lifting and attaching things, 6hr]

This tree was present as I attached my first roof panel (1st of 10) to my treehouse.

I got a view of the roof panel from above – yes, I was very high up, standing on my temporary scaffolding.

Here’s another view of the roof panel.

A lot of my work in the treehouse feels like a kind of live-action tetris game – I spend a lot of time rearranging building materials in limited space as I try to work around it, and with the rafters and cross-braces in place, it’s hard to get large pieces of things moved – I have to solve a puzzle each time I want to move a large piece around, as the space is littered with obstacles.

[daily log: walking, 2km; lifting and attaching, 5hr]

This tree was there when I completed my rafters for my treehouse.

Here is a view from down below.

Next for the treehouse, I want to put in small stretches of exterior wall covering above the windows, before adding the roofing material.

[daily log: walking, 2.5km]

This tree was near some water.

I worked on the treehouse a lot today. But it was small things, and in the end the only visible change was the addition of a 4th rafter, and a sort of temporary scaffolding to enable me to more easily reach the top of the south wall. It was a hard day with a lot of reversals and frustrations and acrophobic delights.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km; banging and lifting, 6hr]

This tree saw me finally finish my wall sections (10 of 10!) on my treehouse over the last two days.

Here is an inside view of the south wall.

I realized I need to buy more brackets before I can proceed to more work on the rafters.

[daily log: walking, 2.5km]

This tree was there as I added wall section 7 of 10 to the treehouse’s south wall.

I moved toward developing a kind of assembly line of parts for my wall sections, finally. That means the next sections after this one should go together faster – but I stopped today because it was quite chilly, overcast, and the rain started again at around 1 PM.

Here is a view of the south wall from the inside.

[daily log: walking, 2km; sawing and carrying, 5hr]

This tree saw me making very slow progress on the roof of my treehouse. It was a clear but chilly day – first taste of Fall.

Fred and Pat stopped by and took their boat back home.

[daily log: walking, 3km; sawing and banging, 4hr]

This tree saw the addition of a sixth wall panel to my treehouse, and then I lifted the first roof-rafter into place.

[daily log: walking, 2.5km; banging and hoisting, 4hr]