I priced a poured foundation for a rear portico. I comes in at about $5,000.00. What I’ll do is sell the pellet stove (I think Pat can handle that, for a 15%, maybe 20% commision?), leave in the shale and make it a home electronics area. Turns out the cabling I got for my speakers were wrong ended. I needed good old BNC and would have seen it if I hadn’t been inordinately focused on computer to computational device ethernet, HDMI and USB cabling and adaptors. It only cost $25.00 or so though, I will probably find use for them. I want the rear portico to be completely sealed in photo-reactive glass, something that darkens automatically when exposed to light (heads up patent support, this effect has probably been exorcised from the lens and windshield markets due to liability concerns, but it’s perfectly safe around the house). I want the walls of the portico done in electric and plumbing supporting double wall to wainscot level as I want appliance capability out there and a tub. I want the outer walls done in wood facad on either side, https://frontek-usa.com/products/wv301/ something tasteful and inexpensive, but I want a deeply recessed but traditional fireplace in back, along with a set of glass barn doors. This will require a more substantial back wall, maybe some sort of larger gauge brick. See here for an example of a fireplace I would LIKE to install. Note that this company manufactures “two” faced chimneys implying that I could enjoy it outside during the early fall months, maybe, I would need to trust the engineer. https://icc-rsf.com/fireplace/renaissance/ My baby is a treeish sort and I have a touch of Ent too. I do my wandering these days on the internet butt she wants to make a garden in the nude with a sunhat. My Neighbor on the South has already put up a fence so all I need to do is keep a bank of open earth on the South side of the portico clear for her. I may need to move the heat exchanger a bit to the South, but NOT TOO MUCH, that air flow MUST be unimpeded. I will open up the earth each growth season with a combination roto-tiller/snowblower, I’ll need one, but that’s as much as I’ll do. I won’t roof the garden with any glass, but I’ll put in a discrete door to the portico with a walk to a shower SEPARATE from the tub where she can rinse off or whatever. We might be able to work out a sill in the South portico wall design that allows her to keep the garden from within an air conditioned space on BRUTAL hot days, we’ll see. Continuing…

The back of the portico is going to be busy, There’ll be a fireplace, a tub, (Recessed maybe? Oh butt that’s a pain in the ass to drain), a shower for Hhragnglera, a wood bin, and two separate doors to the back yard, one for the wood bin and one for occupants. Maybe I’ll have to put the tub on the North side. I’ll need a shed in the back yard for her farm implements (they do get hungry and require cover from the rain) and my power tools . Maybe I’ll go back to doing some of the auto maintenance myself. I might be sleeping in the Chrysler after this post.