Category: Treehouse

This tree saw the 5th of 10 wall sections added to the treehouse.

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

This tree witnessed the addition of the fourth wall section to the treehouse.

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

This tree saw wall section 3 of 10 installed on the treehouse.

Here’s another angle. I had seen a hole in the rain, and jumped in.

Meanwhile, a pair of young deer visited the driveway.

[daily log: walking, 3km; banging and sawing, 2hr]

This tree saw me adding a second wall-section to my treehouse. I plan a total of 10 semi-pre-fab wall sections, five on the south side, five on the north side.

Here are some other views of it.

[daily log: walking, 2.5km; hammering and banging, 3hr]

This tree saw me raise my first wall-section for my treehouse.

Here are some other angles on the same object.

[daily log: walking, 2.5km; hammering and sawing, 5hr]

This tree saw me arrive with a trailerload of new ingredients for my treehouse, including the roofing material and rafters. This is the biggest single purchase I have made for this project.

[daily log: walking, 3km; carrying and moving heavy things, 2hr]

This tree is north of the treehouse.

[daily log: walking, 1.5km]

This tree sticks up through the progressing deck of my treehouse.

[daily log: walking, 2km; banging and sawing, 3hr; borschting, 1hr]

This tree saw that I have attached a sail to my treehouse. Nah – just kidding. It’s a temporary tarp roof, because it was sprinkling rain while I was working on it, but it was partly sunny today, too. I made good progress.

[daily log: walking, 3.5km; banging and sawing, 8hr]

This tree had a distinct view of the treehouse relative to other nearby trees.

[daily log: walking, 2.5km]

This tree experienced having a stairway attached to it. Now the treehouse needs a proper floor.

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

This tree saw me resume work on my treehouse construction project. I’m building an actual stairway (left side) up to the treehouse, so that I no longer have to use a ladder. This will make subsequent construction activity much easier.

[daily log: walking, 3km; banging and sawing, 7hr]

This tree has failed to detach from my treehouse, despite some very windy days.

[daily log: walking, 3km]

This tree, which has a nascent treehouse attached to it, was making alarming creaking noises in the high winds. The treehouse seemed to remain attached, however.

[daily log: walking, 2.5km]

This tree has been killed and processed, the better to serve as the flooring (deck) of my treehouse. Also, I bought some wood to frame out a new “foundation” for my storage tent, since it got unmounted by high winds last week.

I hooked up the heavy-duty trailer, and Art and I drove into town on a special trip so I could spend some of my hard-earned gift-store salary on materials for my treehouse project. It was a lot of work, and harder to drive the potholey road with a loaded trailer.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km]

This tree is one of the smaller trees that I am currently permitting to stick up through the temporary deck of my tree house. I kind of want to keep it, but I might end up removing it.

You might ask, “What’s up with the treehouse? You haven’t posted much about it lately…”
In fact, I stopped working on it. The treehouse project was focused on things that didn’t require my spending more money. I reached a point where I needed to invest some more money – I need lumber for the permanent deck. I don’t want to spend money on that project, right now. Maybe after I’ve worked for a while at the gift shop and saved up some money.
[daily log: walking, 1.5km]

I attached a sail to my treehouse. Which, you will notice, is attached to a tree. So I can use this picture for my daily tree, though admittedly this same tree has featured before – but with less attached to it.

[daily log: walking, 2km]