my dad spoke to me and told me that if i wanted to, we could eventually build a smaller house up at my grandma's property, because she will soon be living somewhere else, where she get the proper care that she needs for her current state of health. i told him that i'd think about it. so i did, i thought about what i would do, what i could invision myself doing up there.
now i'm thinking that i would like to be some kind of elementary/highschool teacher to teach in the area and live in the house that we can build up there. i would teach private music lessons. if i wanted to, i could teach private lessons after school at the school that i taught in. in the house, i want a chamber like room, like 15-20 feet high and wood floors, nothing to dull the sound. that would be the room that i practice in/teach lessons. it would be hard to heat, but maybe i could just insulate it really really well.
i would like to do something with alternative power up there. there are places to do solar, it's very windy there especially in winter so i could invest in a wind turbine (and get an electric heater for the chamber room to heat with the free electricity from the turbine!), and even hydro, although that seems more complicated and we'd have to run a line for about 400 feet at least.
i want to have a big garden. i want to have a greenhouse to grow my own food in during winter. i want to be more self sustained, because i think that with the way the world is heading, people are going to turn to the alternative forms of energy. in fact, they will have to. gas will never go down again, which means that food/transportation/building supplies/everything is just going to go up.
up there on the farm, its kind of like a haven from all of that, or at least it blocks some of it out. there's land to grow on, there's tractors and tedders/rakes/plows/you name it to do whatever you want with the tractor, there's sources of energy that are clean, and there are other farms within 2 miles. if i ever needed to buy half a cow, i'd just drive down the road. the best thing too, is that i'm already learning how to manage a farm from working at moore's during my breaks.
and there are opportunities for music gigs there too. pentangle is just down in the village, rutland has musicals once in a while, hanover has many shows, and of course there's burlington which for whatever reason, has become a major center for jazz.
msu has so many classes that i want to take, it's ridiculous. there are african drumming classes, farm management classes, classes to learn any instrument you wanted to, tons of foreign languages, art classes in any medium you'd want. there is so much i want to learn, and i'm anxious as hell to start school. in my first year i want to take something in agriculture, learn a new instrument, take classes in drawing and watercolor, and that african music class sounds seriously cool, and also music theory with gordon sly. i've heard he's like the king of theory. awesome.
i pick out my classes in a week, on the 1st. it will be awesome.
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