Update! We got our first improvements for Tree Fort House!
We got a
bucket (I asked my husband to buy a metal bucket on his way home...instead he got a plastic red one, since red is my son's favorite color). I went up and predrilled a hole in the tree (with the fiskars non-electic hand drill) and then screwed in the hook (previous owner had a bunch of these already installed in our garage, so I unscrewed from the garage, and put it in the tree instead.). We actually installed it last night...but it got too dark, so we came out again to play today!
My son loves it! My daughter was a bit to unstable to go up in the snow-covered tree, but loves putting things in the bucket for her brother.
A few feet from Tree Fort House is what we call Huckleberry Book Nook. It's a little nook sheltered between a hemlock tree and two cedar stumps that are sprouting tons of huckleberries.
I named it hucklberry nook...but my kids didn't know what a nook is, so my son called it "Huckleberry Book" and my daughter "Book Nook." She's claimed this area as her "house" while my son has Tree Fort House as his house. She saw his sign, and so wanted one of her own. So, I made one with my woodburner!
They had me keep moving the sign around, but I think they're happy with the placement now!
We also discovered that the small hill between the two makes a great place to sled!
