I moved from urban Arizona to rural Idaho last July, just in time for all the fruit trees on our 'new' (house built in 1916) property to fruit. We spent about two hours a day canning (for the first time) and another six hours re-doing two of the rooms (in addition to paying for the pasture fencing, re-piping the entire house, and extending AC power to the outbuildings). Now the house is livable, the garden has been double-dug, and we're catching our breath until January, when we start pruning the overgrown fruit trees.
We converted a bedroom adjacent to the (tiny) kitchen into a 15' X 8' pantry. putting in a laundry sink, and shelving. This week, we built an enclosure for a single burner propane stove for our next year's canning.