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:
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Treehouse
What’s going on with the treehouse project? An amazing number of people asked me about that when I was out at Search Engine Strategies in San Jose last month. Well, before I left for that trip, I spend two frantic days finishing my roof. I’m just behind blogging about it. So let me catch up, and then I’ll do another post [...]
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More work on the treehouse project today. I’ve been dreading doing the roof of the tree house. But finally, its time had come today. The main challenge was those four corner posts. They all end at different heights, since they were buried at slightly different depths. I did a lot of laying board across pairs of them to work out [...]
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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 walls:
In my mind, I [...]
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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 were level. For that, I [...]
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The 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, [...]
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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 [...]
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The great tree house building project continued on today. When I left off, there was the challenge of digging holes deep enough for my four supporting poles. I dug in, pun intended, this morning to make a serious dent in the ground. In the end, I utilized a small, obscure tool I forgot [...]
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I’m on vacation this week, which meant staying at home but trying not to do much work. Instead, my big project is to construct a long-promised tree house with my boys, for my boys. I’ve always wanted to build a tree house. Years and years ago at the Los Angeles Times, I even [...]
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