Home Improvement

corey

We’ve decided to upgrade some things in the house, and we just got the first one completed this weekend.

Our old water heater:
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Our spankin’ new water heater:
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Our new hot water heater is a Rinnai tankless water heater which provides endless hot water and (supposedly) uses less gas than a normal tank.

In two weeks we get our gas stove installed (in our fireplace), and our contractor should be starting our new garage around then as well. We’re also suppose to be placing the windows in one of the rooms (large, old windows that aren’t double paned and cracked in a few spots – we hope it helps keep the house warmer!), but dealing with Lowe’s hasn’t gone very well. I’d much rather have our contractor do it but we’ve already agreed to have Lowe’s come out and install them.

I’ve made some good progress on my RV-7A (make sure you check out my Builder’s Log) and have decided to put down the $250 deposit required to secure a delivery position for an Eggenfellner Subaru 3.0 H6 engine. After reading lots and watching the video of Tom Moore’s Subaru-running RV-7A, it looks like a great option!

Yay for new toys (even if some of them are for the house)!

I’m also happy to report that I got an ‘A’ in my very first back-to-school class, AES 1100, Aviation Fundamentals. I wish I knew what score I got on my final, I think I’ll email the professor and ask… . I just got the books for my classes next semester which is ACC 1010 (Account for Non-Business Majors), AES1400 (Aviation Weather), and AES1710 (Flight Simulator Lab). Both the accounting class and the weather class are done online, I only need to go to campus twice a week for the Flight Sim lab. I figured I’d try the online classes and if I wasn’t following the accounting class well enough, I would ask for an Incomplete and do the class the old fashioned way.

So lots of fun stuff going on. Now if I could only find a way to buy one of those hangars out at Front Range Airport…