Measure Thrice, Cut Twice

What a busy week it's been! We had a great Labor Day BBQ in Fort Awesome and have spent this week getting ready to transport the tent up to Camp. The most crucial step was getting a trailer hitch installed on the van. We started calling around last week and U-Haul wanted to charge us $400 to install it. That was too much to pull around a free trailer. Fleet Farm sold us the hitch for just under $200 and Ray insisted he could install it himself. The instructions said the installation should take 45 minutes. Three hours and one borrowed sawzall later, it was on! We have the upright frame for the tent built as well as the floor frame. The floor looks pretty simple but it took Ray a while to get it just right. I believe the plan is to hang some joists in each small square and then install decking on top of that. When it's done it should be a very solid platform. Our goal for this weekend is just to get everything up there and re-assemble and level the floor frame. Everything is predrilled, but it will have to be put together by hand. We won't be able to actually put up the tent on the platform because we don't have the flooring yet. It was too big of a load to move the tent, the frame and the floor so we had to break it down into 2 trips. Hopefully, by the end of September, Fort Awesome will be erected in it's permanent home at Camp Freedom!