What would you do if you had unlimited space and all the money you needed for the job?

Although our property is a far cry from truly unlimited space, 126 acres spreads out enough to make a good start. A good start is more than enough to start people dreaming.

It seems everyone has ideas on what to do with all that space. Some of the ideas are very creative. Some are really good ideas. Some are hysterically funny. Some are so bizarre that they're worth remembering. Some set the stage for greater dreams. Some sound pleasant, peaceful, relaxing, and/or idyllic. We've decided to collect ideas and list them all right here.

• Have a meadow stretching as far as the eye can see with luscious, soft, green grass sprinkled with dandelions, daffodils, and violets. Put in an occasional shade tree. Have cows grazing peacefully. Place the softest, most luxurious feather bed imaginable in the middle of the meadow. Heap soft down pillows of various sizes on and around the bed. Put on satin sheets and pillowcases, and soft, thick, warm down comforters. Place a nightstand at each corner. Place a water fountain at the head of the bed, and a popcorn popper at the foot.
• Build a medieval-style castle, with turrets and a moat. Put in modern conveniences and have the coolest home around.
• Build a medieval-style castle and village. Put up a wall around the perimeter, with an imposing gate. Invite your medievalist friends to come live and work here, dressing in medieval garb and perhaps even using archaic English. Live and work, and even farm, as they did back then. Charge admission to the public. Have lots of shops.
• Build a Colonial village. Live and work and farm as they did then, and charge admission to the public.
• Build a village of any interesting historic time period, and see above.
• Build a model village, designed on principles that should lead to Utopian living: a better lifestyle, a more responsible lifestyle, a more morally correct lifestyle. Or pick and choose a special segment of the population who would be welcome to be your neighbors, such as people who share your faith or people who share your subculture. Live there and see if it works out.
• Build a spaceport for interstellar trade. Colonize the solar system and find extraterrestrial intelligent life so you have someone to trade with.
• Build a wall to keep out the nosy government. Build a spaceship. Put all your friends on this ship and leave this mudball for some other, more exciting, less populated and less regulated mudball. Build a whole new world there.
• Declare yourself an independent nation. Charge an import tariff on all groceries you buy. When the grocery store owes you thousands of dollars, sue them.
• Plant a giant hedge maze. Make it the most complex hedge maze in the history of the world. Put in occasional rest stations with water fountains. Turn a few dead ends into places to acquire food. Make it multi-level, by also having an underground cavern maze, which you can reach only if you've found the entrance inside the hedge maze. Make the center (the "goal") of the maze into the most amazing (pardon the pun) spot imaginable (and make it big, too). Put in several other fascinating and worthwile destinations in the maze, too. Do the same for the underground maze. Put in secret doors, hidden passageways, and trick/puzzle doors (must figure it out before you can go through). Allow people to "chicken out" from finding their way out by having skylift cars like you see in amusement parks.
• Raise lots of animals.
• Raise all your own food, so you know exactly what you're eating and you don't have to depend on anyone else to supply it to you.
• Build a dyke around your property (that's a wall designed to hold back water), fill it with water, and raise whales and/or dolphins.
• Perform genetic experiments. Create unicorns and dragons. Bring mammoths and other cool creatures back from the dead.
• Cover the whole place with a clear dome (glass, plastic, etc - you want to still see the sun). Fix the temperature the way you like year-round.

If you would like to contribute your own ideas to this list, please email them to jenny@steeds.com.

You will not see your idea credited to your name here, because we haven't credited any names to any ideas (even our own), and that wouldn't be fair to the others.

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This page was last modified on Oct. 17, 2001.