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I bought a house

And thing just keep getting more & more insane.

Interestingly... The bank might have been the easy bit.

I have very, very little land. So not additional barns or living fences. XD There are a few good spots that I might be able to grow some things.

And then there are the holly bushes.

I don't want to waste them, but I don't have a spot for them. I will try and bonsai some but... They are probably going to be chopped up. The only person I know that might take them is an online friend that lives far and away.

There are other bushes in the front that I might also make into bonsai... or chop up.

All the bushes get to wait until the spring before I can do anything.

I also figured out the most evil and yet... peaceful thing? I am gong to build a massive trellis and let a climbing rose try and eat it. It'll be about 5' - 4' away from my house, but there is a little nook that is just 2' - 3' deeper? My mom was a touch horrified but loves the idea.

The evil bit is that it's on the side of the house that is facing the house with kids. but since I need ever bit of my land and I hate mowing... away it will go. At least for now.

I think I'll be doing container gardens this first year. I'll be covering a pathway with them because I can't rip the pathway out like it was implied.

The massive wisteria thing will be getting an extension to grow taller. It's on the old iron cloths line bar... so it's a bit short but at least half as old as the house?

That is about the end of the practical ideas.

My non-practical idea is putting a deck on the house at about a story up. There would be no ground access. Just a door or two from the second floor. And maybe have it wrap around from the front to the back (to act as a car port thing) with a third floor deck?

yeah... That is serious $$$$$ that I will probably never have. But oh, would it give me so much space. So much space. In a few years I might try and crunch some numbers to see how 'not gonna happen' it is.

Uhmm... There was a small heating thing that was fixed. The locks are supposed to be getting updated soon and then the internet will be added.

My dad has been going up there for me because he is retired. This was very lucky. He would go fishing but it's winter and the weather is full of no.

I am... still trying to move everything. Every weekend since I found my house has been insanely busy. And crazy. I even have furniture now. It's weird.

House pics once I move in. It wont be the whole house, just the cool bits and projects. I promise.

Small solar project

I would love to figure out if & how to hook up one of the little solar lights to a computer fan.

Stay with me on this. I was looking at the solar dehydrators and several people spoke about adding little fans. Which I assume to be solar powered. There are a lot of places I could use the little fans to the air moving.

After a dehydrator, a greenhouse would need them.

Greenhouses need a lot of air circulation. With some strategically places little fans the humidity, heat and cold air could be kept even with out adding an extra cost.

Seeing as these days the little lights can be bought for about a buck each and I know far too many computer people who collect fans, it shouldn't be too expensive of an experiment.

I also plan to have my paths littered with the suckers, so I would be getting the lights no matter what.

Fencing Ideas

I am far, far too cheep to pay for fences around the land I plan to look for. There is the whole upkeep bit as well.

Plus I'm lazy.

I did see a post about an elven spite fence. Long story short, they planted a row of fruit trees and flowers to piss off a neighbor. Useful, pretty and awesome.

I am thinking of just planing a row of poplars and willow around my property. Both plants grow very fast in my area. Poplars seem to grow any place and willows are great for wet areas. I wouldn't even need to spend money to start them because I can gather poplar seedlings at home and get willow cuttings while fishing.

They would also be good crafting supplies for me. This could save me money in the long run.

The only draw back is I consider poplars weeds because of how fast they spread. Willows have a shallow root system and rot fast. I don't know if they make good mulch but I will probably find out.

For a mid-high plant/bush I'm not sure what I would do.

I am rally leaning to letting a climbing rose grow free around the trees. Maybe in the front area I will. Then I think for the back areas I'll try to get wild grape vines going.

I might even set up a few fake bee hives to keep people away... And maybe I'll get lucky and bees will move in also.  :3

House Hunt part 3

The house I want to put a bid on.

It is old.

It has character.

It has so many churches around it my mom and I started laughing our self's silly every time we saw another church. There were seven traditional styled churches at a glance and then we kept finding smaller subtle ones.

The house is even being sold by the church.

We think it's the former pastors house. It's an 1800's house but this one has a perfect foundation and beautifully large basement. There is an odd little part but I didn't explore it because spiders. (the farm one didn't have that many spiders now that I think about it.)

There are two kitchens.

The The one upstairs is apart of an apartment. They nailed a few doors shut and had renters upsatirs at some point. This kitchen is perfect for studio work where I need a sink or oven. Ther rooms are tiny but nice.

Down stairs is perfect and not updated at all. It looks like they had used it for a historical display of some sort. The wood floors are amazing. Super high ceilings throught the house. The kitchen down stairs is awkward but I love it.

The backyard and side yards are tiny and weird and there is a shared path to the church. There is a 'garage' that I call a barn. I can't put my car in it but it works for so many other things. There needs to be a property line check because everything is so close together.

The front bushes would be the first things to go.

There are so many original things and because it was owned by a church, it's been taken very good care of. The initial investment to build it must have been insane.

This... will hopefully be the house I will be writing about.

List o' tumblr people

Ok, so I said I would do my best to link quality stuff to you all. Finding other blogs is proving to be just a tad more painful then I thought. So I am adding other sources to this.

http://systlin.tumblr.com/

Awesome person. Knowledge of an infinite amount of things. One of my side tumblr's might as well be a fan page to her because she is the main source of posts shared on it.


https://thebibliosphere.tumblr.com/

BookMom. Again, an amazing woman that is full of so much knowledge. <3 <3 <3 Tons of stories, writing and an original viral post that keeps showing up on her dash.


http://markruffalo.tumblr.com/

Yes, the Mark Ruffalo. All around good guy that is actually good.


https://ursula-vernon.tumblr.com/
and
http://tkingfisher.tumblr.com/

I have been following Ursula Vernons art & stories for years. The top link is kid friendly. The other is her more natural personal-ish blog. She is also awesome.


And... That is all I have for this round.

Star Plate Barn

I have been reading some other blog posts on star plate barns and I think I will be putting a few up. Or rather, I will be buying a few of the plates to make some and see how many others I put up after I build the first barn.

This is purely an aesthetics thing.

Moving beyond that, they will have some good and practical uses also. Mainly storage. Moving twice across the country while growing up was a good learning experience that storage is always needed. After one move from a smaller to larger house we still couldn't figure out how we had stored so much stuff in the prior one.

I know I will need the outdoor storage. Garage space has always been prime in my family and if I have barns then I can have my car in the garage. Assuming I don't end up using the garage as a work studio so I can stay in pajamas longer.

I also would like to see about adding solar panels to them. But I am not sure how far from the main house they can be before it's not worth it.

Secondary to this is if i can use one as a sudo guest house, it might be worth it to have an off the grid setup for family when they stay. Solar for light would be great and I might be able to get away with a portable thing as it would be more like a low budget cabin. But the restroom would be a problem. Plumbing is too expensive and I don't want to deal with outhouses.

Storage and space seem to be my big needs right now. So I will get at least one built.