Sounds like a heavenly job/ pleasurable hobby, and to be surrounded by varying degrees of nature, bliss! I too find my work and hobby lives collide, we are the lucky few! Doing what we love and being paid for it. I love the concept that you try to work with what you already have rather than just bulldozing everything away and starting afresh. I often think that we live in a "throw away" culture and have stopped thinking about the repercussions of the "buy a new one" mindset of today.