This is The Box that Lee Built

I have to give Lee his due (and I actually forgot about this in the Goodbye Summer post below) he can build some cool stuff. Exhibit A... the box. Lately he's been building up a collection of items for camping. We have a tent, a camp shower, some mosquito coils and other various things that you need for successful camping experiences. They only thing we didn't have was a place to put it all where it would not get ruined by ourselves, the cats and the Babies.. so Lee got out some paper and started measuring. When he was done he had some really great plans for a wooden box that would house all our camping stuff. There were trips to Home Depot for wood, fasteners and hinges. There was a ton of sanding being done (thanks to a new handy dandy sander) and there was a plan hatched by the little ladies to turn the box into a clubhouse complete with pillows from the big people's bed (we have pictures somewhere of this). This gave us an idea but I'll talk more about that at a later date. Eventually we were able to evict the girls from the clubhouse and put some doors on the box. I got the super important job to drill the holes for and attach the knobs to the box. It came out really great and it fits nicely in our bedroom on top of Lee's chest of drawers.

Our next project is to make the girls a playhouse. We're not sure how big it's going to be yet so we are making a model first so we can make all the modifications that we need without wasting time and money on supplies and labor.