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When you set out to build an airplane in your garage, you can’t just measure its cost in sheet aluminum, rivets, an engine and gauges.  If you are wise, you’ll factor in something for the inevitable ”how-could-you-possibly-say-no-when-you-are-building-an-airplane-in-our-garage” projects that will come your way.  And you know, it’s hard to knock holes in that logic.

For our family, it has meant the replacement of everything we walk on — both inside and out.  First the lawn got ripped out and new sod put down. 

Then it was pulling out the carpet in our guest bath (yes, the previous owners had carpet in the bathrooms) and putting in limestone tile by hand.  By that point, the camel’s nose was in the tent, and the final, world-class “honey do” was revealed last month.  “Since you’re building a plane in the garage, can’t we get rid of that old carpet, tile and sheet vinyl in the rest of the house?”  How could I say no?  Even if I wanted to.

By the time you unhook every electronic doodad, unload every bookshelf, move every piece of furniture in the house…only to reverse the process several days later, some would argue you might as well move.   Not me.  At least my airplane project is resting comfortably surrounded by all my tools that never got touched once during the process.  That’s one thing I don’t plan to move until the day it takes a trip to the local airport.