I had been playing Adam's house for a couple of months we discovered
that he had a root cellar in his back yard. Well, a root cellar is
most the way to a secret base already so we set to work cleaning it
out and making plans to make it a cool fort. The main problem was
that it was really dirty because it had dirt walls and a dirt floor.
What we needed was some cement to make a nice floor and really spruce
up the joint so we got a wagon and walked the mile to the hardware
store and bought as much as we could afford, one bag. We hauled it
back mixed it with water in a wheelbarrow and then poured it in.
Unfortunately because of the laws of physics and math our meager plop
of concrete only covered a very small section of floor and didn't do
that very well. We were disheartened because of the futility of a
project that would require more money than we had and more time then
we had. We decided to abandon the concrete floor and walls plan and
decided to focus on getting a few hammocks. I still am not sure where
to buy hammocks to this day and I definitely didn't know back then.
My plan was to have Adam's mom make us some from some really strong
material and sew it up on her sewing machine. The problem with this
plan was two-fold first I didn't have any really strong cloth and
Adam's Mom's sewing machine was not equipped for industrial sewing
jobs. I found some plastic feed sacks that I thought would make some
nice hammocks and we tried to tie them together and hang them from
the dirt walls. As most people know dirt is not he most stable of
surfaces and it held true in this case as any sort of anchor we tried
to put in the wall pulled out with any pressure. Multiply defeated we
cashed in and headed inside to watch cartoons an activity we were
successful at.
