plans for 2025

It's a new year and plans are made to do some projects around the property.
So, what is on your project list for 2025? I thought it might be nice to have a place where we can list out what we plan to achieve and look back on to see our successes.
I have quite a few projects around the property and in my art business.
Here is the short list:
1. Front porch needs a roof over it. (so does the wood storage, will be built at the same time with the same materials.)
2. Back deck needs, well it needs to be built.
3. One shower needs new tile and a door.
4. Build a greenhouse!
5. Firewood storage area needs a roof over it.
6. Build a new carport
7. Small shop building needs the interior completed. Insulation, wall board, and electrical work.
8. Front of house needs a retaining wall and terrace planters.
9. Start working on my Mastersmith knives for presentation in 2026.

What have you got planned for 2025?

Love it. While "the list" is infinitely long, and growing every day, these are the priorities I actually think can be completed in 2025:

1. Basement door needs an awning to protect it from rain
2. Then the basement door can be replaced!
3. Move all the wood piles to a central location and devise a temporary cover*
4. Build a bigger firewood storage area, lol*
5. Remove fallen tree from front yard*
6. Repair uprooted storm drains*
7. Really want to overhaul the garage to make certain homestead projects more manageable

*Hurricane Helene, September '24, rearranged my plans here in South Carolina  We lost 8+ trees on our little acre. Two of them pulled 4' drain pipes out of the ground and up into the air.

Aaron Pate wrote: While "the list" is infinitely long, and growing every day,

Ain't that the truth?
My "Bucket List" gets longer all the time too!
It looks like you have a few projects that are intimately entwined and revolve around fallen trees and firewood.
Which reminds me, I built a deck off the wellhouse back in 2020 that was intended to be the firewood storage. It still needs a roof, and I forgot to add that to the list.
6x12 redwood

I think my plans are something like this:

Just what I need! A list, here in a spot I won't lose it, lol!

#1! - purchase my dad's property/house from my stepmother & get it in our name! (hubby & me)
2 - Make maps of various elements (so far I only did "sun on kitchen garden, October 4" lol).
3 - Decide on some slow-growing items (fruit/nut trees?) that only need care a few times/yr, and hopefully plant a few.
4 - Plant tons of daikon seeds in kitchen garden to start amending the clay soil.
5 - Hang the rest of our thrift store cabinets in kitchen.
6 - Cut a particular area of brush, and decide on a spot for brush/branch debris.
7 - Identify as many more plants as possible.
8 - Check borders for tracks of 4-wheelers or humans.
9 - Block vulnerable spots of borders if needed.

Any advice on the above is welcome. I saw an idea of using branches & brush to add to fencing. I might use it alone as a 'fence' to deter trespassers. I put up the appropriate legal Posted signs, and rope on a few spots, and this spring I'll see if it was respected or not.

My current plans for '25 include getting all my goat herd records up to date & recorded with the ANGBA. Once that is done, hopefully my kids will command a substantially better price. After kidding season, the herd needs to be further thinned. While there is some physical work involved in all of this, the mental, emotional, & organizational aspects are the tougher side of the coin - particularly in deciding which ones to keep & which ones to put on the market.

I'm hoping to get more perennial medicinal herbs into the garden, now that it gets a fair amount of sun - amazing what taking out a few house-threatening trees can do for a garden. I only wish I hadn't wracked my knee, just weeks before they were cut. Maybe the asparagus will do better, too.

My experiment with the little window-access greenhouse (installed in October) needs some tweaking, for next winter, some boards on the deck need replacing & the whole deck needs sealing. We've discovered several nasty little air leaks in the garage that need attention, as well as an inside-corner rotten spot, in 2or3 of the logs of the house. And, those trees that never got taken care of(because of my knee) need to be cut, moved, and seasoned.

In short, it looks like a primarily maintenance type year, here.

I am planning on moving my garden beds and I was wondering where I was going to find the source for all the wood chips.  Well, I now have LOTS of future wood chips laying in my front yard from a tree felled by ice.  So I guess I will be cleaning up from storm damage and making wood chips.

Eric

Plant my 3-sisters garden again and keep very careful records. Write a paper for publication on the results.

Build shelving in the garage to replace the shelving I removed last year when I painted.

Finish proof-reading my book, find nice cover art and get it published.