For real this time...

Okay. This time I'm going to stick to the blog thing.

I have friends and coworkers that are so good at keeping regular blog postings. Not me…

Work in progress.

The latest:

• Wife's preggers with #2. She's getting really uncomfortable at this point (due 12-25-08) and I feel for her.
  
• The house will very soon be under construction. We've decided against moving because the market is crap, and there's crap on the market, so plan B was to make our house easier to live in.
• We have chickens again. Got them this past June from an elementary school classroom that hatched them. Not laying yet, but still fun to have.
  
• Allie's is growing to be such a big girl! She's now 2 yrs 3 mos and fully potty trained. We're very proud of her. :)

This past weekend was fun, despite the ultra-warm fall weather we've been having. 65F and rainy on Saturday is not standard fall weather for November in New England.

In preparation for the construction about to begin at our house, I wanted to help tear down the back deck for two reasons: 1- Demo work can be fun. 2- I wanted to save some of the wood to either burn in the fireplace or to use for other projects.

I really wanted to save all the wood, but taking it apart board for board and nail by nail is really a feat for a crew of people with the right tools. Another goal was to GET IT DONE by Sunday afternoon, which meant doing some real demolition work with a saw, a sledge and a ripping bar.

Later in the day we went to Idlywild, a local fruit and veggies market that has great produce as their central theme. We found spinach from NJ on sale and bought a bag…