Above the walls

Now that the walls are up and we have protection from the wind, we need protection from the real joy of the Pacific Northwest, all that liquid sunshine. In true bow-isle style these tents will have tarp roofs.





After a day of throwing rocks into a muddy pit in what we call a road we were finally able to drive up to the site. It makes listening to music so much more enjoyable. Please notice the beautiful ridge beam though. It was put up with great care way too early in the morning with way too much rain falling.




No, the rafters didn't fall back in on us. We figured if we just had camp buy a lot of port-a-ledges we could keep the rafters like this and all the kids would love it! The management didn't go for the idea and so we had to fight the laws of gravity to put them way up in the air. Oh yeah, one of the most exciting things about these tents, they're almost two feet taller than the old ones, no more waking up and bashing your forehead on the rafter and then pretending like it knocked you out to get 5 more minutes of sleep. Sorry, that's what happens though when you have counselors designing the tents.




Hmm, that looks pretty safe to me. Throw me that nail gun would you please?




Carpenters - 1, Gravity - 0 (please let it stay that way)




If you look really closely you'll notice that the doorway really only fits folks under 4'. Small design flaw, but nothing a chainsaw won't fix. We just thought the campers would have a great time seeing their counselors trying to get into the tents.
It almost looks like we know what we were doing. Maybe someday, but, till then, we'll just keep faking.

Framing...or, where in the world do we put a dang window

Yes, it has finally gotten to that point in this experience where all the important decisions are made...does the window go here, or maybe here, possibly here...As you can see, we just decided to put them everywhere and then put the plywood over everything, that way we could put those tough decisions off till later. (we are SO smrt) Ok, so I lied, you can't really see that here, you see it better in the following posts, I promise.




Jon telling Bryan he thinks this wall is backwards and should get flipped around. (for those of you who are carpenters, yeah, we recognized the header wasn't exactly where we wanted it, we fixed the issue)


Follow the light...just watch out for that 2x8 and plywood.




See, lot's of possibilities for windows!



It's quite the jump to get into the tent, hopefully we'll get that issue solved. In the mean time, everyone work on their plyometrics.

It's Time for a new Project

Since we had SO much fun with our last little project we decided that we would try and take on two this time. Fortunately we decided to only do the shell of the buildling which means no more drywall, no more sanding, darn.

We decided that we would try to tackle two new tents/buildings in two weeks, some might say "easy", some "impossible", we said, "ah, we love long days and longer weeks". The following is our brief photo journal of the attempt.

For those of you who know camp well, these tents are along the spur road that leads to the old house site.



See, we did learn from our last project! Look at the pretty scab boards marking all our important spots. Jim would be so proud!





Look! Everyone is helping with the framing! Starting to look like a government job, find the guy holding the shovel up and it'll be a government job for sure.