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JMcD
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 03:46 pm: | 
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My little backyard project
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Paul D. Morgan (V22guy)
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 04:01 pm: |
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Very Nice. Where do you plan to route power for the keg and tv?
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JmcD
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 04:29 pm: |
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Buried a line underground from my house, runs up the back of the tree. 30 amp. 3 lights, 2 outlets. |
KJ
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 05:32 pm: |
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Excellent! What time should we come over???? Seriously, that's a beaut of a tree house. I like how the house "hugs" the trees, like a tree hugger should!
Karen, tree hugger from way back  |
gp (Garrett)
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 05:35 pm: |
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is that for you or the kids? |
JMcD
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 05:53 pm: |
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the kids Garrett, the kids. It started out as a small playhouse and things got out of hand, as they sometimes do. Should be finished in a couple of days. Drywall and lay some flooring down is all thats left. The Deck is 14' by 14' and sits about 12 feet off the ground.
Thanks Karen, those trees were not so Happy when I was driiling 'em for the hanging supports, but they seem to have accepted their fate.
JMcD |
Rob Davison (Pokerob)
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 06:00 pm: |
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i hope you got a building permit for that bad boy... i'd hate to have to turn you in ;)
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JMcD
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 06:04 pm: |
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A what? Where I live we don't need no stinkin' permits! |
gp (Garrett)
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 06:10 pm: |
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220....221??
drywall....my god. are you hanging art in there or something?
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JMcD
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 08:28 pm: |
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well, if you consider Monet Art. |
KJ
| | Posted on Sunday, April 21, 2002 - 10:05 pm: |
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JMcD, it beats the hell out of cutting them down! As for Monet, not in this group. Now, if you hung a pic of a nekkid girl crawling on the hood of John Lee's Milk Truck....
Karen ;) |
Curtis
| | Posted on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 12:40 am: |
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Karen,
LOL! That would, in fact, be art...
Curtis |
Kim S (Roverine)
| | Posted on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 02:25 am: |
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That is fantastic, JMcD! ... Brings back fond memories ... there's just nothing like a good tree house ... Ours were very crude (Dad wouldn't build us one) ... we just climed the limbs, and made make-shift boxes and boards to hold our stuff; i.e. Barbie dolls, (and torture devices for insects that got near them) along with stashes of fruit, rocks, etc., to bomb the neighbor boys that tried to invade, LOL ... We always imaninged that kind of treehouse ... Great job, you're *the bomb* of the dads!
As for the artwork of a nekkid girl crouching like a frog on John Lee's milk truck, it would, after all, have to have the caption of "Get the hell off my hood!" Poor John ... what he has to put up with, LOL
Kim |
JMcD
| | Posted on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 06:46 am: |
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Thanks Kim When I was a kid my brothers and I had a similiar crude treehouse until faulty construction techniques(ie: old wood,bent nails) sent the four of us for a ten foot drop, teaching us a valuable lesson about gravity! Ouch! That was the first time I ever had the wind knocked out of me.
Anyway, my daughters wanted to build one so we started planning and this is what we ended up with. I must admit it is a little bit of being a good Dad and a little bit of, "wish I was kid again." Nothing wrong with that though.
JMcD |
JMcD
| | Posted on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 06:52 am: |
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As for the Art debate, if my girls rooms are any indication, I anticipate seeing even more Mary Kate and Ashley posters, at least until the Brittany Spears phase kicks in.
No Monet, But I do like the nekkid Girl idea, crouching on the hood of green 96 Disco. Will ask my Wife when she wakes up.
JMcD |
Axel Haakonsen (Axel)
| | Posted on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 07:30 am: |
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Monet, Ha! Get some real art by Th. Kittelsen, the famous norwegian artist known for his nature and fairy tale paintings. Of course I am partial, because he was my grandfathers uncle, but his paintings are displayed in the national gallery in Oslo, so he must have had some talent.
When my great grandmother was pregnant with my grandfather, she had already had 7 girls. Uncle Theodor drew a schetch of a naked baby boy (anatomically correct) laying on a silver platter, and sent it to her room so she would know what a boy is supposed to look like. A few days later, my grandfather was born...
http://www.cs.uit.no/~espensk/kittelsen/index-2.0.html
http://www.aktuellkunst.no/kittelsen.html
Axel |
Blue (Bluegill)
| | Posted on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 02:51 pm: |
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that's some very interesting artwork there Axel...very interesting indeed. I like it.
Nice treehouse, too. Back in grad school, my buddy & I spent 12 hours up his tree once. We had lashed up carpet seats and rigged beer holders, we had Bob Marley up there with us on the portable CD player, a pulley sytem with a milk crate to haul up supplies, and the cordless phone so we could order pizza at midnight - dropped down the milkcrate with cash and up came the pizza. It was great until Carlito passed out and fell from his perch. |
JRoc
| | Posted on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 06:51 pm: |
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LOL, I'm not a big fan of the frogs either but dogging Claude Monet??? "Not in this Group"?, "If you consider Monet art"??? D-Web has stooped to an alltime low!!! LOL Funny part is alot of guys that wheel think of Land Rovers as the sophisticated man's vehicle! 
Monet? Yep, I gots me some monay! how'd you think I bawt myselve this fancee truk
Now Kyle's front bumper I'd put up against anything that Monet ever painted! Or anything that Isamu Naguchi ever crafted!!! Kyle's masterpiece is a REAL work of ART!!! LOL
Oh, and great clubhouse! You'll get a few attaboy's for that one! You deserve it!!! |
Blue (Bluegill)
| | Posted on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 08:31 pm: |
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I have a Monet hanging in my great room. (no, it's not an original ) |
KJ
| | Posted on Monday, April 22, 2002 - 11:25 pm: |
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I gotta Monet hanging in my not-so-great room. That Larry Monet, he did a great job painting that room.
Karen |
Curtis
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 01:19 am: |
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Karen,
I have this image of your poor painter hung on the wall in your NSG room.
For Gods sakes! Let him down already! Did he do that bad of a job?
Curtis |
KJ
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 09:28 am: |
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LOL, Curtis. No, he did O.k., we're just in a billing dispute. I think he's weakening....
Karen |
Blue (Bluegill)
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 03:15 pm: |
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tell him he can take his paint back |
KJ
| | Posted on Tuesday, April 23, 2002 - 03:39 pm: |
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Well, maybe tomorrow I'll check in with him. I think tomorrow's feed-the-painter day.....or is that Thursday.....?
Karen |
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