About 9 years ago, Beverly Boyle was having a frustrating day with grandkids underfoot and uttered those words that every grandpa dreads to hear: “I bet if you asked grampy he would build a tree-house for you!” Yikes! Now what?!! Further still, Bev was envisioning an ewok village, from Star Wars, with multi-floors and walkways from tree to tree!
The solution was to push scaffolding up against a tree, add a few planks, and voila, tree house! Two rules: 1) don’t fall off, and 2) you have to be able to climb up and down yourself to be allowed up there.
At that time I started to look at all of our big oak and maple trees and to mentally design a tree house. The project came together, 4 years ago. Here is the result.
This also has the distinction of being the only building project that myself and our three sons, Craig N. Boyle, Mike Boyle and James Boyle, worked on together.
(First Posted on Facebook in 2016)