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| Spencer designed and decorated his own cake this year. He had a birthday cake ice cream birthday cake. (i.e. he had an ice cream cake for his birthday made out of birthday cake flavored ice cream.) |
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| Spencer is digging out his dinosaur fossil. One of his birthday presents. |
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| We made this snow monster. He had so much grass sticking out of him that we thought he looked all furry. We decided he should be a monster instead of a man. We gave him fangs and horns. |
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| Day one- we built the platform for the tree house and incorporated this old stump into the structure. |
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| Day two- we built the adjacent structure and put in the decking. |
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| Day three- we added the slide and the 10 foot high swing beam. |
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| Day four- we put in most of the railings. These railings are made from the branches of the same tree that contributed its stump on the first day. |
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| Day five- we finished the railings and put in the swing hangers. We decided our ten foot high swing beam will probably call for some extension chains. |
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| Day six- we finish |
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| We built the drawbridge- operated by winch. We properly installed the swings including the board swing we built. We built the sandbox and hung the hammock. |
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| Ready for play |
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| Swinging in the hammock |
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| Inspecting the bridge |
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| Surfing the board swing |
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| Here is a close up of the deck and rails. |
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| And this is how the rails look from the outside. |
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| Later I added some animal designs on various spots of the play structure. This lion pops up when the drawbridge goes up. |
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| There was some extra dowel, so we made these chessmen and imprinted a board on the floor of the tree house. |
