cofee pot house!!!

Hello all!!

Its been a bit since my last blog again. No huge updates in the past month.

I have noticied that I tend to fixate on ideas and get almost obsessive about them. But I have been gathering even more information on becoming green.

So, we have a rain barrell that didnt get used very much but we still have the water and will use it when its time to water the garden again. And why is it illegal to use the houses grey water? I have no idea and I willl do it if I want to!.....but maybe not, i dont want to incriminate myself on the internet if the "feds" get wind of me using my own waste water.

I watched an informative program on the network "planet green" about a family that uses their reclaimed water(rain water) and stores it in big pressurized cysterns underground in their backyard. They have their hoses hooked up to it and use it for just about everything. They even have an irrigation system thats a drip line, but underground, that has virtually no evaporation. It also feeds the roots of their veggie patch directly and promotes better growth to their home grown goodies.
Another neat tid bit was that they didnt have downspouts from their gutters, they had rain chains. Big beautiful copper links that the water runs down and just looks divine in a storm. I totally want rain chains on my house!

So Ive made a list of wants that I would like to have in my "green" house. "Green" to me is all about saving money, of course, it helos the planet but I love the idea of being more self reliant and it not costing much.

My WANT list for a more efficient home:
-I want rain chains just because theyre beautiful
- i plan to make grow boxes for a better garden in the spring, we did find out that veggies will grow at our house.
-my big dream is to have solar panels and a converter for energy(big wish!!)
-when we redo the kitchen i would like recycled glass countertops, sooooo awesome!!!
-bamboo flooring would be nice, but soooo pricey! we may go with cork, but most likely the cheapest thing that i like
-a pressurized water collection system
-pavers that reduce runoff from the house to get a kickback from the water company
-new high effiency windows
-a compost barrell(the really cool one from IFA)
-and more than anything i want a biodiesel car!!!

Now, the whole thing to being "Aerial-green" is saving money. A bonus is the helping the environment. I would love to have a house thats so efficient that all it costs to run everything would be the cost of running one coffee pot. Thats the goal!!!