Mare has a post of me building this tree house almost four years ago. It still gets comments, and most recently some questions about construction. This is the Amazon link to the book that I used to get some helpful hints on this project. There are lots of other great books with many other hints [...]
I just had to show off my favorite tree at my mom’s mountain cabin. There are many, many trees up there, but none as spectacular as this one. There is one other of this type but it’s only a fraction of the size. I would love to tell you what type it is but I [...]
This poplar tree looked quite healthy before the wind hit it. Inspecting the trunk revealed the other culprit. The tree had borers. Half inch wide tunnels trailed three feet up the trunk, deep into the core wood.
This tree was out of the way by the corral and nothing else was damaged. [...]
Our three, almost all, eleven year-old kids have been working on a homemade fort among our few pine trees on the outskirts of our lot for about 3 years now. They have had some small victories with their stick, baling twine and nailed creations. Usually the victories have been short lived, and knocked [...]
When we moved out to our 3 acres the only living thing taller than 4 feet was an ancient wild rosebush. There were no trees and the only natural resource was the lava rock that the previous farmer had piled up in several large mounds.
We planted poplar trees around the borders of the property because [...]
