You don’t set out to raise an engineer, but you soon learn that you are raising one. You notice your tape disappears into masterly planned projects. You find in-progress projects throughout your house. You wonder if you should stop the more crazy ideas or in courage them.
For her latest project, Katie Beth is designing and building a lift for her treehouse. She first started with a old chair’s seat bottom and attached a board to be a back. She drilled holes in the seat to attach a rope. She collected up all the exercise weights that she could find around the house. She searched around for a pail to hold the weights and proceeded to the treehouse to install her lift. After she learned the pails is too small and weak, she found an old decorative plant basket, which was up for the job of holding the counter weights.
It was wonderful watching the construction and testing of her idea, but best of all it is fun raising this wonderful daughter to be the best she can be.