If I won the lottery

Sometimes, especially when I am at my brokest, I like to fantasize about winning so much money, that I could never spend it all.

If I did, what would I do with it?

First, home base. I would like to find maybe 20 - 100 acres (preferably lakefront) and build a family compound. Far enough away from each other everyone can have complete privacy, close enough to each other so when anyone needs help, family is just over the hill. I would build myself a craftsman style. One level. Lots of windows and woodwork. Antiques. A greenhouse. A fully equipped woodworking shop and garage.

The other houses would be modern, spacious, and modest.

All family members that would like to be a part of the compound would be able to design their own house. They could sell or keep their present houses if they wish.

I would like to use solar power as much as possible - as well as take advantage of as many natural resources as possible. In the central area I would plant a garden all of us could work on together and live of all year long. Maybe a community center with a commercial kitchen for canning and freezing. A playground for the kids.

All the nieces and nephews would get their college tuition paid for, and then a trust waiting for them when they graduate college, and maybe a little extra if they graduate with honors.

We would see the world. Spend at least a year in Europe.

We would see the best of our own country. An RV would be one of the new additions, and then could just stay on the road and live at campgrounds in our nations' state parks.

I would also like to buy real estate - maybe a condo - in all the cities we would visit frequently. The places I have been, I would want a condo in New Orleans, Miami, Pensacola, Atlanta, and New York City. Im sure after we travel about and see more of the country, we would buy more if we find something we like - love. Rent those out as vacation get aways when we aren't there.

To accessorize the new garage, there would be a convertible sports car, a sedan, SUV, a truck, a pontoon boat and maybe a couple of jet ski's.

It could happen!