all about the tent
It has come to my attention that I've been lax and haven't posted any tent pictures, so I've finally gotten organized (and borrowed a camera since I forgot mine). Here, in all its glory, is the tent.
Ok, that was a little less glory and lot more parts. Here's the glory:
I know that blue plaid thing on the bed in the back looks like it's floating in mid-air. A bunch of our stuff is undyed cotton, so it all matches the tent, and I'm not the best photographer in the world. And we were just goofing off with the flag. That pole sticking out front is for holding up the porch roof/tarp/tent fly we forgot. We forgot the floor tarp, too, and one of these days we'll go get some other unstinky tarps (you have to air them, but then they're ok). We just haven't gotten around to it yet because it doesn't rain here in the summer, and the driveway isn't a terrible floor.
The bed, if you were curious, is two pushed-together, metal-sprung LL Bean cot frames with homemade kapok and cotton mattresses on top.
Here's a picture of the inside (from when it was pitched in my living room) so you can see the ties and tent poles:
It's working out really well. With an air cleaner inside, it holds out cut-grass smell and barbeque smoke, and it turns out that Laundry Fest is kind of a non-event around here, however that works.
My mom figured that we'd forgotten to wire it for electricity, so she found us a shop light, so the tent glows in the dark. You can see the shadowy outlines of a chair and a bag we hung from an eyebolt.
So far only family members have been to visit. Everybody thinks it's pretty neat except for Patrick, who is at the age where new stuff can be kind of startling, and you have to admit that people living in a tent on the driveway is kinda different. Ok, EIs do this kind of thing all the time, but that doesn't mean two-year-olds are used to it.
Ok, that was a little less glory and lot more parts. Here's the glory:
I know that blue plaid thing on the bed in the back looks like it's floating in mid-air. A bunch of our stuff is undyed cotton, so it all matches the tent, and I'm not the best photographer in the world. And we were just goofing off with the flag. That pole sticking out front is for holding up the porch roof/tarp/tent fly we forgot. We forgot the floor tarp, too, and one of these days we'll go get some other unstinky tarps (you have to air them, but then they're ok). We just haven't gotten around to it yet because it doesn't rain here in the summer, and the driveway isn't a terrible floor.
The bed, if you were curious, is two pushed-together, metal-sprung LL Bean cot frames with homemade kapok and cotton mattresses on top.
Here's a picture of the inside (from when it was pitched in my living room) so you can see the ties and tent poles:
It's working out really well. With an air cleaner inside, it holds out cut-grass smell and barbeque smoke, and it turns out that Laundry Fest is kind of a non-event around here, however that works.
My mom figured that we'd forgotten to wire it for electricity, so she found us a shop light, so the tent glows in the dark. You can see the shadowy outlines of a chair and a bag we hung from an eyebolt.
So far only family members have been to visit. Everybody thinks it's pretty neat except for Patrick, who is at the age where new stuff can be kind of startling, and you have to admit that people living in a tent on the driveway is kinda different. Ok, EIs do this kind of thing all the time, but that doesn't mean two-year-olds are used to it.
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