Gorgeous winter day in South Florida. Slight wisps of white clouds, and the blue is a perfect baby blue.
Inside today, catching up on chores that have been waiting a long time. Love to clean out closets and cabinets – yes, I really mean it. A great sense of satisfaction after the job is done; in fact, I keep looking for more things to throw out. I get in to a “getting rid of things I don’t need anymore” mode and truthfully, I am disappointed that I can’t find anything more with which to fill my garbage pail!
The disappointed feeling didn’t last very long.
Something on the TV caught my ear as I walked into the kitchen (I usually keep it on even when not in the room). Treehouse Masters. On Animal Planet, of all places!
I’ve seen Pete Nelson’s amazing treehouses before, but this day, I was taken all over the US – California, Ohio, Upstate NY, Manhattan, and even Alaska! This guy is a veritable “globetrotter” in the States. He’s from Washington State – a real “down homebody” kind of guy. Loved my trip!
Above is the interior of a “brewery tree house” he designed and built for a family where they could brew their own beer. His vision for them was a house that resembled a church.
Below is the tree house built and owned by a homesteader in Alaska – very crude, but strongly built. No design – just used nails and a gas-powered saw.
The guy, a helicopter pilot, brought Pete to his house (he hadn’t been there in 7 months), hoping it would still be there, considering the weather in the Alaskan wilderness. It needed a new part to the smokestack of his woodburning stove inside the tree house. It was a tricky and dangerous job, but Pete managed, without getting killed.
Sunshinebright 