Accidental RV Psychological Warfare

[txaviator]

Just wait, fellas....Just when I thought the scrap-booking hobby could go no further, the wife has discovered a new twist to it all.....

Her scrap-booking crew has now ventured off into ALSO making belt buckles. Yep, I have no idea where that came from, but the same stores that sell the materials for scrap-booking are now selling supplies to make your own belt buckles. They buy blank sterling silver buckles, blank black leather belts, then they all get together and glue millions of little sequins and stones to the sterling belt buckle, all in fancy little designs

I must admit however, that I don't mind it at all. I just think it is funny, the things they come up with. Geez, if I had "seen" the scrap-booking craze coming? I could have opened a quick little store selling all the supplies (like many others have done here in Dallas/Fort Worth) and surely made enough profits by now to pay for QUICKBUILD wings and fuse, rather than slow-build

Like I said though, I don't mind it as long as she is happy. I find it comical they get enjoyment out of "building little belt buckles and glueing pictures on fancy paper". From the wife's point of view, she thinks it is comical that we get enjoyment out of "riveting little pieces of aluminum together". I guess it's all relevant........

[Experimental Chaos]

Originally Posted by kaceyd9plus

I would have to agree with that! My wife has as much stuff as the store does. She comes out of the store bummed out and says they have nothing that she doesn't have.

Kacey D.
RV9A Preview Plans

I have that same problem when it comes to tools

[aparchment]

Man, scissors, stickers and paper must have taken a huge leap in price recently. I had no idea they could cost as much as a GNS-430! That's almost as frightening as the cost of gas!

Maybe I don't know what scrapbooking really is.

[skyflies]

She flew with me (her first time ever) in really windy/gusty conditions and the airplane was being thrown around all over the place. She loved it! We then go to the Watsonville Airshow and when we are looking at the cute Cubs and Champs, she says, "We need an airplane of our own". So I take her to the line with the beautiful RV-8s and tell her my dream of building one of those. She carefully checks out all of them and thinks they look great!

A few days later, we fly down to Santa Ynez where there are two RV-7s doing touch and goes. She can't take her eyes off of either of them. One of them pulls into the fuel island, fills up and the pilot (and wife) start washing it at the nearby pad and my wife says, "Oh wouldn't it be fun to wash our own plane like that on a day like this?".

So my to do list as of now
- Get a house with a garage
- Order the tail kit for an RV-8
- Keep my wife happy by working on it

[Bryan Wood]

Last year my wife put together an album for me with her scrapbooking skills and had it wrapped up under the Christmas tree. It was so touching that I couldn't talk for about 30 minutes after looking thru it. Until that time I never knew that both her and my two sons "Got it." So as your building and flying produces more memories and photos your world and hers will hopefully collide and you will get something as truly wonderful as I did. Here a few examples which do not do justice to the work that she put into this. The text is bent in the photos that I just took for this post, but are not that way in the book.

Rosie took the cover photo without knowing it at the time. This is probably my favorite picture of "The Flag."
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This was taken at the Van's Homecoming in 2000. I was well into the build by this point.
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This one shows my son Jason working on the tanks with me. He liked the proseal!
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This is what Jason wrote about our time together working on the plane.
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This is what my younger son Spencer had to say about the plane.
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This is an example of how she made each page unique and interesting.
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Some pages didn't need as much but she still carried the theme
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Here she used the poster from our stop at Sun N Fun. We both have great memories of this.
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So remember to take pictures if your wife does scrapbooking. You'll likely be glad you did.

[jetjok]

The first time that my wife (G/F at the time) came to CA, I took her with me on one of the $100 omlette missions that we do every weekend. I set her up to fly with a friend in his RV-6. After watching a series of loops and rolls, I knew when they pulled back into formation it was going to be a defining point in our relationship. Lucky for me, she was all smiles!
We got engaged while up to our elbows in PolySpray at a fabric covering seminar at Arlington.
She looks forward every year to the annual on the PA-20 and the condition on the RV, as timing mags and cleaning spark plugs is recreation to her!
Sorry she has no sisters, and I am staying as long as she will allow it!

[jetjok]

Wow, that is very cool!. I can very well understand how this gift would leave you at a loss for words

[frankh]

My Wife owns a thoroughbred...Apparently it was "free"

Word to the wise, if anyone offers you a "free" horse...Run the other way as fast as you can!

Yeah spending money on an RV is no problem whatsoever...

[Phil]

I'm very lucky to have the right wife. She enjoys flying with me, as long as it's not too bumpy.

Long story short, I wanted to build a 6 or 7. Something smaller and less expensive.

However, she was determined to have something with 4 seats. So she suggested that I build a -10. It's not often your wife makes you spend more money and build a bigger airplane.

Very cool

[DarylT]

Be very careful Scott. Girlfriends are very good at this in reverse. They say these things when they are in the prenesting mode. Once they get you at ease that they are the one and HOOK ya. Then the real girlfriend comes out.

Just a heads up to proceed with caution!