Quick Minimal Playhouse

When I came home from work today Lily was very excited: she wanted to build a playhouse for our 1y11m neighbor Jo. Lily had gotten parental permission, the yard had space, and I was the only remaining obstacle. I'd normally be pretty excited about a project like this, but it was 5pm and I was signed up to cook dinner.

On the other hand, we'd recently been reading the Little House books and Farmer Boy and we'd been joking about how the fathers in the books built things unrealistically quickly. Most recently, Almanzo's father builds a bobsled from scratch in a single a day, including identifying and felling the trees. Still, most of the unrealism comes from what they had to work with: no pre-cut pre-seasoned lumber, no power tools, pegs for fasteners, etc. Perhaps with modern tools we could build a minimal playhouse together and still have dinner on the table by 7pm? Sounds fun!