The Wife Of A Magician!

My husband is really talented. I mean he's incredible! He can BUILD things! And not just websites, but FRONT PORCHES! and CHICKEN COOPS! and WATER TURBINES! and BABIES! wait a second... back to our improving home!

This man has single-handedly (with a few pointers/helping hands from friends and family) temporarily supported our porch roof, removed the complete under-structure of it's dilapidated porch and "supports", dug and baled out 5 giant holes (several times due to rain), poured cement footers, poured sonatube footers atop that, JACKED UP THE ROOF OF THE PORCH BY HIMSELF, and put in strong, beautiful brand new 6x6 posts. All this while working full time and being a great father and doing the laundry and feeding all the animals and playing guitar; we do miss him on the weekends though....

Such is life in October when you're a young family with an old home that "you're breathing new life into". The projects sometimes feel endless this time of year, inhale, finish porch roof, install front steps, build back porch railing, build bulkhead, put clapboards on north side of house,, and shingles on east side of house, exhale, and somewhere in there figure out how to finance buying a new family car (we're looking at the Honda Fit, anyone have any feedback?). The nice/frustrating thing about working on a home in New England is there is such a definitive end-date, because while it's Indian Summer now, the cold winter air will slide in shortly and the snow will start falling and you can't really argue with ice and snow, unless you're inside a greenhouse, and then you can laugh at it whole-heartedly while you snack on spinach, but that's a dream for another year and for this year we have enough on our plate.