I don't know what I'm going to do when Steve retires and we are not moving to a new location every couple of years. But if we must settle down, I'd want to restore an old farm house like the one pictured. We don't own it, I just wish that I did. It would need to be sitting on at least 10 acres. I'd have a HUGE garden, some chickens (if I can get over my irrational fear that they will flog me and peck my eyeballs out). I would have flower gardens with sitting areas. Another thing I would like to try with my homegrown vegetables would be canning. I have never done it, but I really, really want to. I would like to grow and can all the vegetables out of my garden so I can avoid going to the grocery store for them. I think that my hubby would be adorable driving one of these around my little mini farm: 
Speaking of canning my vegetables, I have been looking at canning websites and this one: http://www.freshpreserving.com/getting-started.aspx looks like a pretty good one. I also have some books. But I imagine the best thing I could possibly do for myself is to convince my grandma to come to me and show me how it's done. For some reason, I keep picturing exploding jars and tainted botulism infested food. Grandma if you're reading this, HELP!
Steve and I still have no idea what we are going to do when he retires from the Air Force next spring. He's still young and has another career ahead of him. I will see what he says when I suggest that he becomes a Farmer so I can putter around in a vegetable garden. Well, I guess he doesn't have to be a Full time Farmer. He just needs to be home long enough to do all the manual labor for me.
I hope that eventually we settle fairly close to family because I miss them. I think I've had enough of living far away from everyone, but where my husband goes I will follow. I don't even want to think about what I'm going to do when I grow up. That's a whole other Blog topic.
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