Of tree toads and tree houses ...

Lunch in the tree house

I've been wanting to post about both of these things for awhile, but oh, time is in such short supply these days!  (For one thing, I need to spend time in the garden each day or the weeds will completely take over.)

Last summer we found a tree toad in our above-ground pool.  Mr. T moved him to a tree and all was well.  Now this summer we heard a particularly loud tree toad for several evenings.  We knew he was quite close by but assumed he was in a tree.  Finally Mr. T happened to look in the pool and there he was.

 
The toad was moved to a nearby tree and wasn't seen in the pool again for several weeks.  But Sunday he was back there, just under the rim of the pool.  So he has been moved again!

As for the tree house, our 9-year-old granddaughter had asked Grampa if he could build one out back.  As you will see -- I am just going to share a bunch of pictures with captions -- he granted her request!

Mr. T has worked in the forest industry most of his life.  He hates to find nails in trees!

So he picked out 2 supporting trees and built the tree house around them.  No nails in these trees!

The girl who got her wish

Her sister

Reading in the partially built tree house

As work began on the roof

2 in the tree

Shows the forested location of the tree house

Work ongoing on  the roof

Metal roofing (recycled) going on.

I blogged earlier about finding luna moths in the tree house

Grampa has lunch with 3 more grandkids

The picture window used to be in our living room.  The kids loved watching the antics of squirrels as they ate.

So that is some of our summer fun.  What's been happening in your backyard this summer?