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February 19, 2006
Tim takes to the trees
The horror film forgotten, Tim's once again wanting to take to the trees. He's installed what he calls a pulley system in one of the evergreens in the back yard, and has been hounding me to find some boards so he can build a fort up there.
This morning we talked over the plans, which involve walls, windows, and a roof, plus a stairway. He graciously suggested that to save wood, we could potentially leave the vertical backs of the steps unfinished, relying only on the railings and actual steps themselves. He's probably given up on carpeting, at least in the stairwell.
After he'd talked most of it out of his system, he was willing to discuss the more mundane points of construction. The problem was that we cannot go to the town dump today to look for old boards. It's not open. He wanted to start on the roof right away instead. He ceded the point however that it would make sense to start with the floor before deciding on the roof. He also admitted that he'd need to pick a pine tree with branches roughly at the same level all around if we want to have boards nailed to more than one branch.
Now he wants me out there so we can clean the selected tree and prepare it for boards as soon as we get them. I was really hoping he'd go back to the horror film script, but a tree fort is no doubt more useful to an 8 year old boy.
Posted by Mark at February 19, 2006 03:18 PM
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