A few weeks and one concussion (sorry Medium) ago, construction began on our most ambitious project to date – a treehouse/secret headquarters (no girls allowed; thank you very much).

Tiny helped screw in lag screws and squirt construction adhesive and provide a list of future improvements that will take well into his freshman year in college to complete.

Well, phase one is done. And it’s pretty awesome. There’s an 8-foot tall 6 by 6 deck with a couple of tree trunks poking through. Our inaugural act was to drink a dad beer and a boy beer and play a game of checkers. I won.

Tiny broke down after a couple of hours and let his mom come up. Ruined already!