Sun 5 Jul 2009
A Campfire Ring and Treehouse for Kids 8-80
Posted by Bob under Our New Home
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Who Could Ask for S’More? A visit from the grandkids and John in the week of July 4th.
Dan rode down with Monika early in the week, and then John drove down with Cally and Sylvia for the 4th of July weekend (Calista had a wedding in Pennsylvania to go to). Nic and Alison came out several times, so it was our first extended family gathering at our new home. It was great…and resulted in some new additions to what our friend Barry has called our “resort” (happily without crowds, gift shops, entrance fees, or traffic)–namely a campfire ring and a treehouse. The campfire ring was Nic’s idea, and after he and Dan constructed it in the afternoon, we tried it out for s’mores in the evening.
The treehouse was Dan’s idea, and in fact he largely built it on his own, with a little help at the beginning from me and later from Nic. (He’d built one back in New Jersey with friends, so he wasn’t a novice in this.) This turns out to be a real 21st century treehouse–it comes with wireless internet and Dan spent hours up there instant messaging with friends in Portugal!
Once everyone had arrived, we had dinner on the deck and a second s’more campfire. On July 4th we went up to the Blue Ridge Parkway for a picnic and some short walks. More pictures about each of these activities may be seen by clicking here.
Looks like a lot of fun! We were making s’mores at the same time during our trip to cape cod!
I finally found the time to look through all your posts and the blog is coming along great! I see you’ve figured out all sorts of things like embedding images from picasa and the like. Apparently retired social science types can figure out how to use computers after all!
Thanks for the appreciative comments, Tim. But now the real question is whether computer types can learn some social science before they retire! [Neither of my kids has ever taken a sociology course. :(]