Home improvements|Kitchen and Bathroom Remodeling

After being a diesel mechanic/supervisor for the first 17 years of my working career, I changed directions and started a home improvement company.
One of our specialties was Kitchen and bathroom remodeling. A lot lot of people spend money in this area of home improvement as it is on of the best ROI you can do to your home.
The range of price for a bathroom makeover can vary greatly depending how extravagant the homeowner decides to go with the remodel.
You don't have to spend a fortune to spruce up a bathroom and add significant value to your home.
Just putting down some new floor covering , replacing the old counter top and sink with stylish looking cultured marble vanity top and some fresh paint on the vanity can go a long ways towards improving the looks of an outdated bathroom.

Ultralight Airplanes|My T-Bird

This is the first airplane I owned. After I finished my flight training, I knew I had to have my own airplane, I was hooked.
My trainer ( Joe) had told me that he had owned a T-Bird prior to the Challenger that he gave me instructions in, and he had all good things to say about the T-bird ultralights.
He said it was one of the toughest built ultralights he had ever had the pleasure of flying and the flight characteristics were very forgiving. I had it in my mind that I wanted the T-Bird.
I looked at the long list of used ultralight planes on the internet and made a lot of phone calls, even went to look at a few of them .
I looked at several used T-Bird ultralights and found that they seemed to hold there value very well. Most of them were priced a lot higher than other brands of ultralights ,even though the kit price was in the same range as the other brands.
So then I contacted Golden Circle Air and got all the details on buying it new as a kit and how long they thought it would take someone to build it. I bought it as a kit in Nov., 2000, went to Iowa in a van and picked it up.
I spent about 2 months building the plane working on it most weekends and sometimes during the week in the afternoon when I got off work. My T-Bird made it's first flight in Feb. 2001.
I've bought several used ultralights since I built my T-Bird. I own 3 now ,actually they aren't ultralights anymore since the FAA changed the ruling on 2 place ultralight trainers all 2 place ultralights have to be registered and inspected . They are classified as light sport .
I've always done all the work on my own planes and even converted the T-Bird to light sport , but that's another story.