No… not that kind of high… I am way up in my pine tree.
This tree used to be just a few feet tall and lived in a pot. We used it as a Christmas tree for a few years. When we bought our house 14 years ago, I planted it in the yard. And now it is getting really tall. And I am trimming it so I can build a tree house.
Maybe I will make it look like Tarzan’s tree house at Disneyland. Like an old sailing ship stuck in a tree.
Or maybe it will just be a platform with a reclining chair on it. But I should at least build a crow’s nest way up at the top of the tree. That would be awesome. I will wear my pirate hat and put a telescope up there.
There is a picture of my big old size 15 monkey feet. You still can’t really tell how high up I am. You will just have to come visit once I get the tree house built in a few more years… when the tree is even taller, and the branches are a little thicker.
We can hang out in my tree together.
Oh, and while I am cleaning out my photos, here is one I took the other day. Those two strange birds are Ospreys.
No… not the real birds… those are those tilt-rotor airplanes the Marines fly. That is one cool thing about living near a Marine airbase. We get some cool aircraft flying over our house. Especially when the airshow comes to town.
Pouring My Art Out 
Are you sure you want to build on your pine tree? Pine trees are so finicky – if you interfere in their growth (in any way) they sometimes go in a direction you never expected or die. You wouldn’t want to destroy a tree you’ve had around for so many years!
It is supposed to get 80 feet tall and the roots will probably destroy our house… so…
There is still snow here, maybe more is coming, no wonder the bears hibernate.
Grey hair looks good on you.
thank goodness… and thank you.
You should try it!
Are you absolutely sure those aren’t drones monitoring your activities?
um… now that you mention it… no…
You have dainty feet
huge and dainty… story of my life
You should paint your nails and wear sandals with pride and gusto
I do all of that but the paint part…
Nice one. Give them tootsies a varnish and you will be the cock of the north in your neighbourhood!
I don’t know how much that will impress people in California…
There’s only one way to find out…
I wouldn’t be the first person to do that.
I don’t think pirates actually live in the trees. Crack squirrels, on the other hand…
It is the closest thing to a mast I have in my yard.
I will help you build your treehouse. I work for beer.
awesome.
But not light beer. Never that.
Because I want a tree house built by two drunk guys.
I build better when drunk.
You mean you think you do.
Well, when I fall down, it doesn’t hurt as much…
Have you tried falling out of a tree?
So many things to say about this.
As a kid, we had a treehouse. I was too little to get into it without special help from my brother, who usually gave it. It was wonderful. (But with pine you get very sticky)
At my current office, we are close to the Pentagon. We see that kind of osprey all the time. Just about every day. We are moving next week and I am heartbroken. I am going from having a $2 million view, literally, to looking at a brick fucking wall. I am really unhappy.
I need a new treehouse. Or a winning lottery ticket.
Or both.
What’s funny is that since you have ‘high’ in the first sentence and ‘pot’ in the second sentence, you’ll get a certain demographic reading your blog who maybe didn’t before.
Oh… I think they already do… and I did notice that also.
Yeah. Did you plan that? It was subtle.
It was just one of those happy coincidences.
Beautiful, great photo’s. I just left the mass amounts of pine and fir trees of Oregon for the palm trees and desert of Arizona. I am loving it, 26 years in Oregon was 26 to long. Hope all is well
It is, thanks. I love Oregon, and now my daughter lives in Arizona.
Yup. Trees can definitely get you high.
oh yeah
How about a ticki carved tree house?
oooohhh… yeah
I thought you might like that 🙂
I did.
woot
oh yeah
That looks like paradise. It’s snowy here and I’m starting to feel all murdery.
I keep telling everybody to move here…
You do seem like a happy individual, it must be all the sun.
But we have plenty of murdery people too…
I’m sold!
good
They will all be speaking Klingon by the time I’m done with them
That would be cool…
Murdery? Crike, Janey!
I love that word. That is what Mary Poppins would get.
She would get murdery? It’s Mary Poppins – you monster!
If she did, that is how she would say it.
It’s most definitely a word, like chesticles or douchecave. I don’t make these up ya know.
I believe you… and there goes the vocabulary of the next generation…
ha
In my sci-fi books, that alien with his naughty bits growing out of the top of his head, he has his testicles on his chest… and they are huge… the ultimate chesticles.
I definitely replied to this so my comment is out there somewhere in cyber space, homeless and lonely.
I said that I must order some books for my school library off of you at some stage. Probably not the chesticle one though, because I like my job.
That alien is there to start a dialogue about morality and nudity and the human attitudes about those things. The books are aimed at people at least 15 years old. They really aren’t inappropriate… much.
It sounds amazing. But I’m teaching in a Christian school with very conservative values sooo…I wish it were more progressive and open-minded, but it’s not.
stick with the monkey book… unless that offends the people who think evolution is a hoax.
No, they’re not that bad haha. I will definitely get back to you, it all looks great and I know the kids would love them 🙂
no pressure…
No, it’ll be great. When I’m asked where I got them, I can finally answer with “oh, just from some guy I know”.
That works for me…
Pine trees are a gateway vegetation.
Tree house sounds like a great idea!
I always wanted one… I love pine trees.