basement upgrade

Well tax time has came and gone, all I have left to do is send the check in the mail on monday. I think I will be getting certified mail.

Walter now has his latest set of shots and has the rabies vaccine. He seems to be getting the hang of the pace of being in the greenhouse, and he is pretty tired when we get back. Playing with the labs is a bit tiring for all parties involved.

Today I made and printed out an excel spreadsheet to keep better track of what I spent on bills last year and this coming year. I really have to cut back on my credit card bill, but the rest of them were reasonable. The only issue I have is with the electric, but its just going to be high until I buy a wood burning heat source for my house. I don't know if I will have the gumption to get that done this summer or not. I certainly don't want to spend money on electric and propane to heat my house when I can burn wood for the cost of me getting off of the couch and swinging an axe when I have nothing else to do.

I really don't know what I am going to do to spend money this year. I want to buy a wood furnace for the house, might buy a bigger truck for the farm, could buy some farm machinery. I could see making improvements on the house. The house could use some more insulation, but if I just blast a bunch of heat in from burning wood, I don't need much insulation. I might make a mudroom on the back part of the house, or I could renovate the attic to a room and a bathroom part. One thing I am sure I want to do is run some new wiring and clean out my basement. Right now it has an old furnace and some other junk. Since I got the windows put in, there is much more light, and I think I might need a place to keep canned vegetables after this summer.

In 2009 I payed off my truck and bought a house and neither of those did me much good. I have to find a way to spend money and still pay off all my bills and loans. Saving the money doesn't do me any good when the tax man wants all my money I didn't spend that I don't have.