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Well…we did it.
It took us 4 weeks. 10 days of it rain. 6 days of it vacation. But we started this sucker a month ago…and FINALLY finished building it.
That’s how we spent our Saturday. Building the rock wall, swings, ladder, and slide.
But it’s done.
Now…for those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter…I’ve said many times…I am NOT a “handy” man.
I don’t like working with tools. Fixing things around the house. I just don’t.
So this was a REAL labor of love…ha ha.
The boys have been enjoying it for two days now. They call it “the Brother Club”.
🙂
Also…you might notice that today’s colors are more blue. WHereas yesterday’s colors are more magenta.
I decided I wanted these scenes to feel more like it’s coming to nighttime. So…I’ll go back and redo Friday’s page.
Hope you have a great day. And see you all tomorrow.
Scott
It is the things we build with love that matter in life. the Brother Club is truly a labor of love. Seriously cool man.
Awesome play set! My parents got me one but never built it. Now that I hear how much time it took you I don’t blame them.
I have a question in the second to the last panel. What is sticking up from his tail? It looks like a pencil? Part of the background? Some centaur tail bling? Seriously, what is it?
Alex sounds oh so thrilled that the centaur just walked off to talk privately with his sword. Heh.
Solar: What’s sticking out of his tail is, From what I can tell… A feather.
Nice playset for the boys Scott!
All of a sudden, I’m wondering what happens if you try sleeping in Dreamland. Are you even able to? I mean, it would be pretty weird to dream about sleeping. I have absolutely no idea why I started thinking about this.
@Solar: That’s the feather stuck up his butt.
LAST ONE ON THE SWINGSET’S A ROTTEN EGG!
Yep. I’ve built one of those for my kids as well. Similar to that one except the playhouse is different, the slide is straight instead of curved and it has monkey bars as well. It was a lot of work, but not nearly as much work as the pea-gravel playarea I also built for it. A bunch of 4×6 beams around the edge and literally a full dumptruck of gravel – wheelbarrowed from the driveway to the back yard. I got some help, but did most of the work myself. It was a LOT of work so yeah, I know where you’re at.
The play structure looks good, Scott. That’s slightly bigger than ours… I can tell it’s the same manufacturer, though. Although we didn’t have any rain, it did take me about 4 weeks to build ours too… finishing up right after my birthday. Hope your kids enjoy it as much as my kids enjoy theirs!
My neighbors bought one that is almost the same as the one you have but it the stuff is in different spots. And there is a 2nd room on top of where the rock wall ends. But anyways. We put it together in around 7 hours. Started it on the morning and that afternoon the kids were playing in it and I was drinking from my free case of beer 😀
Wow Jellybeans. 7 hours???
That’s insane. We’d need an army of Bob Villas to do that!
This particular one was from Toys r Us. So I think it’s a popular manufacturer.
Boy was it a lot of parts.
Thanks all…and yes that’s the feather attached to his TAIL (not his butt).
😛
And so our young padawan grudgingly relinquishes his lightsaber to his master.
Suddenly I’m creeped out by the centaur. Is he really a good guy? Should Alex really give his sword away…? The blue adds a nice touch of uncertainty.
Seriously, what does happen if you “sleep” in Dreamland? Could you, I dunno, dream? 🙂
My guess is that this is really part of Alex’s instruction – as the centaur said it is the only way Alex is able to travel to and from Dreamland currently. So, taking the sword away will send Alex home and he will have to find his way back….
I know… it’s out there
The centaur will replace it with a fake!!! and then kill nicodemus and become new king muahahahaha. or something like that
I see you got some recognition for your work (assuming it’s the same Scott 😉 ) http://www.catenamanor.com/?comic=229
I’m dumbfounded that you can find the time to recover from your injuries, raise a family, build a swingset, AND do all this other stuff!
I think it’s time you give up the time machine for a while and let others use it. I’m sure it won’t take much time.
(Groan all you want, you read it, you can’t un-read it.)
If I understand the way the sword works now, is if Alex wakes up, the sword will disappear and the centaur will know Alex woke up. Hence, Alex will still have the sword in the real world. The centaur would simply have to wait until Alex came back to Dreamland to finish whatever he was doing.
Have I got it right, Scott? Oh, and I think you did a great job on the swingset.
Yup RG. That’s what happened earlier when Arvamas took it for a bit.
JRBlood…
Ha ha. Yeah. Tracy and I did a book called Gary the Pirate. 2 weeks ago there was a preview of it here. Well…the link was here. The preview was on Newsarama.
All told…I have 11 books in stores this year. I’ve been pushing the time machine to its limits…ha ha.
🙂
… i have a BAAAAD feeling about this…
I’m hoping Alex doesn’t wake up before he gets his sword back…
Guess I’ll wait and see. And, actually, considering some of the theories, maybe it won’t be too bad.
RG and Scott, phew! I was kind of worried he’d wake up without it and not be able to get back.
As I recall, the last time Alex woke up without the sword, it disappeared from Dreamland when he did, and didn’t return until he did. He still had the necklace when he woke up.
Still, Orion does seem to be intent on some object. Wonder what his agenda is here? And, what will happen if the sword is active when Alex wakes up?
Daw, I liked the pink. But I understand, the blue does look more like night instead of daybreak.
And everyone keeps talking about the feather, but I’m more interested in the hand print on his thigh. It’s an amazing addition to the character, but I was wondering how it got there. It isn’t his, being the wrong angle and such. Would it be a family member’s? A friend? Some sort of cerimonial thing? The things I wonder about…
Wonderful playset by and by! Glad the boys enjoy it!
The sword shall reveal all…O,O
Hey, that playset looks really neato–congrats on getting it all built! 8D
NeoDarklight, maybe you have something there! What would happen if Alex went to sleep in Dreamland?
And what does that say about Daniel? Is he a Dreamland person sleeping and coming into our cosmos somehow? Would that explain why he doesn’t dream when he sleeps (here)? Maybe if he was in a permanent state of sleep, he’d never vanish.
Interesting to speculate.
my next door neighbors have that. are you from south carolina cuz i might know you lol.
He’s just taking the sword for a dinner and a movie.