a) I don't remember whether more shelving is needed or not. Please feel
free to purchase whatever you think we should get at this time.

b) If I remember correctly, the last time I went, I took a newly
bought package of propane, solder, and sandpaper. I have no memory
of having opened that package, and I suspect I placed it unopened
on one of the basement shelves. It cost about $20.00 and I have no
objection to buying another one. There were several old propane
containers, some empty, some partially filled, which I removed from
the basement, for concern they might leak, and placed in a pile
outside, about 15 ft east of the southeast corner of the house.

If I remember correctly, Mr. Whelden had unscrewed the flexible 
one inch hose that had connected the subterranean pipe from the
submersible pump with the pressure tank, and replaced it with a
fixed one inch copper pipe leading to an open 3/4 inch plastic pipe,
which would have flooded the basement, if one had turned on the
submersible pump. In order to get water for the plastering - and
other uses - I made a single clean cut of Mr. Whelden's one inch
copper pipe, which gave me access to the subterranean submersible
pump connection, to which I reattached the original one inch
flexible pipe to the pressure tank. At the time I bought a one
inch copper coupling which I slipped over the cut ends of the
Mr. Wheldons one inch pipe. If Mr. Wheldon's copper pipe is to
be reattached to the subterranean pipe as he had left it, such
reattachment must be made BEFORE the copper pipe is soldered.
After it is soldered it can no longer be attached to, or if attached
can no longer be removed from the subterranean pipe. Once I 
solder Mr. Wheldon's copper pipe, there will be no water in the
house for anything or anyone.

I will do whatever you want. However, what I would do, is, instead
of the coupling which cannot be opened, I would install a one inch
copper union ($12.76 from Home Depot) which can be opened and closed
with a wrench. One would then preserve ones option of having water
available in the house, or Mr Wheldon's configuration, but no water,
with a few turns of a wrench.

c) Three new outside light fixtures are needed. The two I installed
downstairs have been destroyed by the salt air. The upstairs outside
light fixture was never installed. The rusted fixtures were the best
Home Depot sold. Possibly one could buy something more durable from
an electrical goods store. What I consider most practical are the
simple exposed bulb fixtures such as I intalled outside the 174
School Street addition; but the Historic District Commission would
consider them a provocation.