What is left to be done

So my mind has been spinning with all that needs to be done in just a short time...

Johnny and I are trying to finish our barn, AKA The Prancing Pony, so we can move to The Shire with our 14 children this April.

Reasons for moving so soon include:

• It is a window of time when the children will be out of school making them free to pack up and move as well as able to transition to a new school (the younger ones who currently school in Nakuru).
• It is so difficult traveling back and forth to The Shire to work on things while leaving the kids at home
• The girls who are attending High School near The Shire are walking miles and miles each day during wee hours of the morning and late evenings. They need to be closer to their school.
• We can work on things while we are there.
• The Prancing Pony is rent-free
• We can plant food and get started on the garden
• The rains are only going to get more plentiful and the roads more muddy if we wait until the next school holiday in August.
• Right now the roads are still passable with a big moving truck, but they won't be for long...

Currently, the Prancing Pony (house) is not quite livable yet. We raised half the money we needed last year, and we have managed to build a 2000 sq ft structure. We have mud walls, wooden shudders, a fence, and a roof, but that is about all. We still need to do a lot of things to make it work for us, some of which we can do while living there...

We need:

• to smooth and plaster the walls
  
• Level and smooth the floors
• Tile in the wet rooms and put stones in the kitchen
• put in cupboards, shelves and cabinets in the storage areas
• have the toilets built
• put in a septic tank
• buy a gas fridge
• get solar panels, inverters, etc.. and run the wiring through the house
• put in the basic plumbing for the sinks
• buy a gas cylinder to fuel the fridge and cook with
• get 6 more water tanks to collect rain water so we have it during the dry season
• buy a kuniburner for heating water
• get a truck load of sand for building
• pack up our belongings and hire some trucks to help us move
• find a primary school for the younger girls, pay their school fees and get new uniforms

Whew! See? That's not too much now is it?

<needing encouragement>