Dead Wood

We had a very nice Christmas, how about you? We still need to put the top eaves on the treehouse. It takes a long time just to get prepared to put in the eaves. You have to have wood to nail the plywood to. Royce had to nail boards to the outside, up underneath where the eaves would be.

He also had to cut and nail framing pieces in place so the eaves would be level.

Dead wood had to be nailed to the inside of the treehouse also.

Some places were really a tight squeeze so he used a vice grip to hold the boards in place to nail them.

This took all day so we didn't get to start on the plywood yet. Maybe next week. The New Year is fast approaching, where did the time go?

Making Room for A Tree

We haven't been working on the treehouse for a while. Thanksgiving came and went, then the Turkey Rod Run in Daytona Beach, then Christmas shopping. It was just one thing after another. And to tell you the truth, we had such a hard time with the bottom eaves we are dreading even attempting to install the top eaves. And we had to figure out what to do about the tree that was growing up through the roof. Yes, procrastination set in. But we are back at it now. The hardest eave to put in place had to be built around a maple tree. This was quite a challenge. Royce put a piece of metal up through a hole we left in the roof and created a kind of funnel so the tree can grow up through it.

The hole is not very wide, only a couple of inches bigger around than the tree trunk, so if this tree grows fast, we may have a problem.

But for now the tree has a little more room to grow. Hopefully the small hole won't stunt the tree's growth. Speaking of growth or lack there of. . . This crate sure has come in handy for enabling us to reach places overhead.

Looks like I'm not the only one who's vertically challenged in our family.

Well the ladder would have been too tall to use.

Framing the Eaves

This month has been spent putting a thin frame in place for the plywood eaves. This hides the rough edges of the plywood and gives the eaves a finished look. I also finished staining all the eaves that were in place. Nadine & Greg threw a Christmas party the first Saturday night in December, which was a lot of fun. Mike & John were here from England to visit, attend the Turkey Rod Run, so they also were here for the party.

All the leaves are off the trees leaving the treehouse exposed for all to see. No longer hidden in the Quail Hollow Pine Forest.