So I’m walking down the road carrying a 4×8 sheet of paneling on my back, feeling a bit like a pack mule, and each gust of wind gives me a bit of a lift off…and I’m honestly wondering if enough wind would jerk the thing out of my hands or truly take me for a ride with it. This is the last sheet of paneling that needs to be added to the treehouse to finish its four walls, but turns out building a treehouse between 5 trees does not equal square right angles! So, my 8×8 house isn’t quite 8 ft on one side and that dang panel needed cut from 48 inches to 38 inches. Luckily, Joanna’s uncle is quite the handyman and has every tool imaginable and lives 5 houses away. Hence, the mule trek down the road, ridiculously walking with a 4×8 panel of wood on my back.
Once cut, mule trekked back to my house, and put up, I admired my four walls all of about 30 seconds before I decided it was time to add the roof. I asked the best roofer I know and he said I needed more wood. 2×4’s. Thankfully only 8 foot 2×4’s were needed. However, I didn’t want to keep borrowing my father-in-law’s truck. So, I squeezed 4 2×4’s into my small Hyundai. If you put them in the back driver side window and aim them down into the front passenger side floor board, they ALMOST fit! Once the 2×4’s were added to the house, it was time for the tin…which had been laying out in my backyard grass waiting for it’s time to get added. So, when I lifted the sheets of tin up…what was under them? A snake. Thank God, I was familiar with that snake, or I’d have squealed like a girl and tried to kill him. But I saw him a few weeks ago when I first started clearing for the treehouse, and that first time I saw him is, of course when I little girl squealed and tried to stomp kill him as he craftily slithered into a mole hole. But, I figured out he is a king snake, and king snakes are non-poisonous and apparently keep away other, poisonous snakes, from your yard. So, if you find one in your yard, let him be. Granted I wasn’t quite expecting my newfound yard-protecting friend under the tin, so my heart did skip a beat or two…
