Our To Do or Wish List...

We really would like to build a storm shelter/root cellar, produce at least half of our food from a large garden, have enough solar and or wind energy that if our regular power goes out we can still have electricity, fence our property so that the dogs can run around on it without going on to other people's land, raise enough chickens that we have meat and eggs from them, raise a goat or three for milk to make cheese, build a goat pen and shelter, build a large chicken coop and fence off a free-range area for them.  We would like to plant a multi-fruit orchard and vineyard, have a large herb garden, plant pecan trees or other nut bearing trees and flowers to attract bees.  I want to build a top bar hive and raise bees...of course a lot of this will be way in the future and I will have to learn how to do much of this.

Our house actually needs more work too, we painted the whole house, but...it needs a lot of touch up work done.  I would like to replace most of the ceiling fans and light fixtures. We have bare bulb fixtures in the closets that have light, and there are two closets that need lighting.  Some of the light fixtures have one bulb capability for a large room and they need two to three lights, the rooms seem really dark even with the light on.  There are some walls that could use electrical outlets, we have had to run extension cords to plug in lights or a TV, and we need electrical to the sheds.  The kitchen pantry needs to be expanded, I am not sure what they were thinking when they built it, the good news is that  the room next to it has a weird area that we could expand into...it may have been for a desk or bookshelf, but it is behind the door when you walk into the room.  We need more plumbing work done, to what extent I am not sure...I don't know why they used irrigation pipes for the plumbing when they built the house, but I do know you have to run the water for awhile before it tastes decent.  So, we will have to do something about that eventually...right now we filter our water.

We still need to level the cabinets in the kitchen and attach the countertop to them.  We need to level the range after that.  We need to re plumb the dishwasher and patch the wall behind the dishwasher and the kitchen sink.  Get two more toilets bolted down, they tend to move.

We want to redo all three of the bathrooms, we can use them, they are functional...but they all have issues.  We would like to change out the spa tub in the Master Bath and walls to a large walk in shower, it is just so big and doesn't work right anyway...it would be nice if the bathroom was larger too, and two sinks would be nice.  I would love to replace the flooring in the bathrooms, and change the bathtub and shower combination in a guest bath to something a bit nicer, same in the other bathroom...I am not liking the fiberglass or acrylic that is in there, it must have been damaged and they patched it, when I cleaned it, chunks came out of the bottom and I can see cracks.  This is a partial list, but it is things we have discussed...just need the money to do the projects and time.

The big ugly tub/shower combination in the master bathroom...it needs to go!