Friday, January 25, 2008

Just Call Me Butterfly

Actually, don't. I would go out of my mind if I tried to stay in a tree for 738 days. I am no Julia Hill. I'm not even a Lisa Simpson. Remember that episode of Arrested Development, where Lindsay tries to get Johnny Bark out of the tree but then totally relates to him and decides to join his protest and Michael's all, "I'll come back when you figure out what the bucket's for?" That's closer to the truth. (Hopefully, that is the only time I ever compare myself to any member of the Bluth Family. Though I loved them so...)

BUT! I would love to be able to just hang out in a tree, for the fun of it. If I had a yard, I would want to build a tree house. Something a bit more traditional than this one, though it is beautiful.

Apparently, I'm not the only one. Oh, and this guy too. You can rent it!

Yeah, I've always loved forts. Growing up, my sister Anne Marie and I used to build elaborate forts from blankets & card tables in our basement. Some of them were multilevel. One year, my mother was the cookie coordinator for our Girl Scout troop and we built a SWEET fort out of cartons of girl scout cookies, eating many boxes in the process. My mother had to pay for them. She wasn't happy about it. We would pretend that we were in our mansion, where we lived with our husbands, Duran Duran. Anne Marie was partial to Simon. I vacillated between Nick and John. Poor Andy and Roger got no love. But I digress...

Where was I? Right, treehouses. Love them!

3 comments:

MaineMan said...

I am guessing that I am one of your friends with the most available treehouse trees. Come on up for a week in the summer and pick your tree.

or try this one...

http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/28/spherical-treehouse.html

Beth said...

late at night when i should be sleeping, I like to search the web for vacations-I once found a tree house resort in Belize that I thought would be a great family vacation---someday.

therese said...

Ooh! It's like the Ewoks built their own Death Star!