Ray has Skills. And I think we're staying here for a while...

After I've spent months thinking about how to do this (and maybe his subconscious was working on it, too), Ray spent 3 days and built a Murphy bed in the basement. Yay, we have guest accommodations again! (Well, we will by the time any of you need them... I have some cleaning to do.)

In the last few months, we have constructed a closet, redone the kitchen, rearranged and somewhat refurnished the basement.. and next up is the new bathroom. I think recent events have given us a large sense of permanence in the current home. Not entirely sure where in the metro area I may be working next (or when next may be), but we'll be in this house for while! And Ray is doing an amazing job of making it home. Or home away from home - your bed awaits!

The wee one's new place......and the wee one

  

Work on the baby room is mostly complete.  Just need to clean out the closet and decide which mattress will be the most anti SID.  Not sure if the cats understand that they get a new roomate or not.  

Speaking of new roomates.  The wee one seems to be taking up more of the bed and makes snuggling a little harder.  The big belly shot everybody loves is available in the Picasa album (click on any of the pics in this entry to get to the album).  Enjoy.   

Vegetable Farming

Laura won a gift certificate to one of the local farms (Miller Farms). So the two of us and Jimmy went out to try our hands as vegetable farmers.  The farm has lots of little things for kids.  We got to enjoy those first. There were cars, airplanes and tractors to climb on..... I cannot decide if the farm did a good job replicating Towmater from the movie cars or Pixar did a lot of research on dead trucks in Colorado Fields.

The big deal was that they drove you around on a flatbed, stopping at various fields, so you could pick your own vegetables.  More like you picked up the root vegetables they already dug up with the tractors.  I think it allowed the farm workers to be amused that people would pay to dig in the dirt for food. We did get several bags of potatoes, carrots, onions and squash.  Plus four beets because everybody harassed us about not getting off the truck at the beet stop.  :P

We finally got to experience a corn maze. Turns out it is sort of like walking...

aimlessly....

through a field of corn...

Add in a bag of yummy kettlecorn and its pretty good entertainment.

All said and done, it was a great way to spend a gorgeous Saturday (upper 70's!). Laura turned a lot of the haul into filler for the new chest freezer, so we have a start on frozen dinners for the next few months!