Our Tree House

The hole is getting bigger!

Cedar Terrace should be up and hole should be MUCH bigger in the next couple of days. Harley is here, checking out the digging (and drinking from the mud puddles)...

Digging has begun

Excavation has finally started and we have a big hole under Cedar Terrace now. The house seems to be sitting precariously on piles of dirt, but hopefully everyone knows what they're doing!

AOTA Conference in Houston, TX

I had a really good trip to Houston for the American Occupational Therapy Association annual conference. I arrived Thursday evening and left Sunday, so had two really good (and really FULL) days of OT stuff. Great workshops focusing on things like yoga & OT, Sensory Integration, and many others. I ran into two of my teachers from USM and attended an excellent workshop by Winnie Dunn (she developed the Sensory Profile that we use quite a bit in OT). Besides an awful trip back (that's a whole 'nother blog entry) it was an excellent experience. It was the longest I'd been away from Ben and he and his Daddy had an excellent time as well- I think a lot of chocolate was eaten...

Demo/clean-up

Here are a few more shots of the demo (and a little of the clean-up) of Cedar Terrace. The place looks SO strange without the shed roof addition and the screened porch. More demo (of the floor) is on the agenda for this weekend-- anyone free to hang out and work at the lake tomorrow??!! ;-p The place is scheduled to be jacked up on Monday, so that should be another wild thing to see. Ben really likes to be part of the whole process and donned his workin' gloves to help pick up some of the debris and throw it into the trailer. I had to drag him away for lunch- he didn't want to leave what he calls "Our Crazy House".

Day #2 of Demo

Here is our house-- minus kitchen and bathroom (well, we have a tub...)
We're down at Cabin 1 for a while with no internet access and no cable-- it's wild! At least we have running water and electricity- it's a beautiful spot right on the water, so we can't complain...
Lots of updates to come...