Time to catch-up on the treehouse project. I left off with the roof completed, with the next major job being the climbing wall on the back. But first, a look at how it appeared before doing that: Here’s a closeup of the top, so you can better see the roof in place: We’ve since had…

What’s going on with the treehouse project? An amazing number of people asked me about that. So let me catch up, and then I’ll do another post about how things are going with the climbing wall portion. First, I have to interrupt the construction tale with two pictures from my oldest son, who likes taking…

Building the tree house has continued! Though not today. There was too much work going on for me to sneak out for a brilliant sunny day that was beckoning me to do construction. And rain the day before. But over the weekend, lots and lots of work! Most of Day 7 was spent doing the…

And the building a tree house project continues! Today, it was time to get the second floor frame up. With that in place, I’d have everything I needed to move along with the first floor walls. Putting up the frame meant lifting six heavy 2×8 pieces of wood over my head, plus making sure they…

The treehouse construction continues! When I left off, I’d decided it made sense to build a little porch for the tree house but worried it needed more support. Indeed. When I pulled at the cross beam I’d hastily put up, it came off at the bottom quickly. Time to do it right! Last Sunday, marked…

Wow — I’m getting email asking what’s up with the treehouse! Cool, that’ll keep me motivated. So it’s been raining in Britain. Sure, it always rains — but it’s really raining a lot. You know, floods all around. Fortunately, we seemed to be one of the few parts of the country with rain but no…