plantman As an additional footnote to this picture, you’ll note the numbers on the walls behind my chair....kind of an odd thing to have in your house, right? Well, my home is by no means your normal home. This picture is from inside what used to be the gym. See, my house is a former elementary school. 24,000 sq. Ft.. each kind has, what used to be a classroom for their bedroom. Each bedroom is 868 sq. Ft.. My wife turned the old gym into a combination living room/ dining room area. We even used to have a stage, but I walled it off from the rest of the gym, and now the stage area acts as the kids game room area with ping pong, pool table, XBOX on a 75 inch screen TVs, a couple of old arcade games like mortal combat, and some other stuff to keep them busy. The main hallway is 10 feet wide, so my wife used to have an electric golf cart for driving around in the house so she could haul the vacuum and cleaning supplies from room to room so each kids could keep their rooms clean. She also used it to haul dirty clothes to the laundry room. We got a great deal on the place too. $100,000 cash. With the building, we got nearly 18 acres of woods and trails, for the most part, a small private lake, as, other than our property, the rest of the lake is surrounded by State and Federal land, so we have the only access to the lake, thus, I’ll call it a private lake. We are out in the sticks. In fact, the closest town to us is about 30 miles away, so it help with lots of privacy. My wife half way jokes that the reason we are out in the middle of no where, is that, because of my old job, I don’t belong around people. 😂😂. Which is just fine with me! Ok, that’s enough of an update. Take care all!

mirorim That’s a really interesting place to live!

plantman It’s definitely different, but, as my wife had said, we have 7 kids, if we had bought a house, a 3-4 bedroom house would have cost us between $200-400,000, and then we would have had to add on to it, for a final price I wasn’t willing to pay. We got this place for $100,000 cash, and, the $200-400,000 plus house would never have come with this much property or a virtually private lake. It was impossible for me to ignore her logic.

plantman That’s a partial list from one facility. Doesn’t seem to want to let me do the other 2 pages.

GreenBoy From Alabama 🙏🏾ing for you brotha.. healing.. happiness and strength

plantman Thank you Sir

NorthernGrow204 Sounds like a great plan but a lot of work, that is a beautiful yard 👌 You are a great parent plantman

plantman Thanks, it helps to have great kids! 😊