On and off again building.

Well, it has now officially been enough time passing that many people will have started and finished an airplane project.  Well not me.  I decided to go back to school for a new degree, we had a child, renovated and sold our house, started building a new house, lived with my in-laws while building, moved to new house, etc.  Well I now have the garage organized somewhat, enough to maybe build a few things for an airplane anyway.  I am sure that it will be on and off again building going forward since I am in graduate school now and seems to eat a lot of my time.  But as I get free time I plan on adding to the project in the hopes that someday I will be able to fly the thing.  This past weekend was one of those weekends where I was able to build a few things to hang on the airplane.  I worked on the glare shield, the instrument panel, and created a way for the fuel tank to be mounted into the airplane with stainless steel straps.  I finished welding on tabs that will attach the windows and windshield, fitted a new floorboard of birch ply to the front of the cabin. At least it is some progress.  Hopefully someday I will be able to sandblast and paint the airframe.  Before I do, I still have to add some sort of attach points to the airframe to hold stringers, add a few tabs to attach interior panels to eventually, and make sure that there are no other tabs that need to be added to the engine mount to hold accessories or wires or cables.