"Why did this chapter take you so long?" must be the thought running through your head right now.... was I right? :-)
Read on for the first "Nate GOTCHA" of this building process.

Well the short answer is that I wanted more space in the garage hangar after finishing F22 & F28 in early April, 2004. This spawned the idea of moving the gazebo behind our house that contained our hot-tub so that I could build a shed to offload all of the stuff taking up space into the garage into.... WELLLLL!!! If your going to move the gazebo and hot-tub you might as well put the hot-tub where you really want it... on the deck.

--Enter the wife.... --

"Well honey... not a bad idea but the deck is kinda small don't you think?" <- that is what I like to call a setup line.
"Yeah... ", I say with a quizical look on my face as the warning bells start going off in the back of my mind, "...yeah. You might be right" <- that is what I like to call "the overzealous husband wanting to just be agreeable so that we can get this out of the way and back to airplane building
"Hmmm, what are you going to do about that?" <- the knockdown

--End conversation with the wife--

5 months later I have now done the following:

• Knocked down the old gazebo
• Cut the old deck off the house
• built a shed
• Made the shed look like the house to please the wife (just image what that took)
• Designed a deck big enough for the hot-tub and other stuff
• Designed a Bigger deck
• Designed an even bigger deck with a free-standing roof over a large portion of it
• Bought a new (MUCH Larger) Hot tub -- The wife smiles
• Beefed up the deck design to support 3 elephants, 100 people, and the 4 small automobiles that must ultimately be able to park on it of course.... oh and the new hot-tub.
• Dug Holes
• Dug Holes - Deep ones
• Trenched for the electrical
• installed enormously sized trees in the ground to hold up this new deck - and roof
• Poured copious amounts of hand-mixed concrete
• Installed over-zealously sized Deck
• Build free-standing roof over larger portion of over-zealously sized deck
• Installed new hot-tub
• Ran tons of rediculously sized wires to make new hot tub make bubbles
• all of this by myself...

you get the idea.... BUT NOW! I'm back on the plane and have made a solemn vow to hire out anything that big again. I reccomend that you you get an idea like this early on you do the same.

On the good side of it though, I now have a very roomy garage that I intend to fill with airplae on a very steady basis from here on out.