Ideas that seemed great at the time and nixed by spouse

The mead hall sounds awesome. I would definitely have shown up to buy a pint. Or a quart. Or a gallon, if we're being honest.

Ha.. well I HAD a reason at the time. It had to do with building up an aura about me as a bladesmith that specializes in the Viking period. I was hoping this 'aura' would increase my reputation, make me rich and famous. Seriously. I also thought it would be a great place to party with friends. :-)

The mead in my hall would have been free and flowing... :-)

Now _that_ is my kind of venue.

A Viking hall would probably be a viable business as a batchelor party or wedding venue. Especially if you're offering courses in something cool like making blades.. But I shouldn't encourage you! Haha.
Alokin, I used to work with JDM cars and loved the classic Imprezas. A friend had a 22B which I lusted after for a very long time.

Yeah.. you are right. And I thought of those things. It was just so unrealistic. For one thing... they are far more complicated to make than I ever imagined. I thought I could just cut trees on my land and throw it up. To get the funding I would have had to take out huge loans.. far too risky. I ended up going into depression after a while when I was thinking of this and it all started dawning on me. It also scared my wife.

But damn it. I still want one.

I got a wild hair up my wazoo once and nearly had us packed and ready to move to Arizona. I was sick of our NW winters and cold, wet springs, and I was feeling restless and edgy anyway. I mean, I'd gone so far as to look at houses on the Internet and search for nursing jobs in the Tucson area.

My hubby and family were less than thrilled. We still had a son at home who needed to finish high school, and our first grandchild was due in a few months. Well, that grandchild was the end of my dreams of Arizona, because I loved him from the first instant I saw him and realized I would never be able to leave him.

Yep.. can relate. That recalls my dropping out of an incredible doctorate program (full research fellowship) to run off the California, leave my fiance and pocket $6000 in financial aid money that was supposed to be returned. That was THE pivotal point for the rest of my life.

Your climate sounds like mine...except we have snow on the ground for 6 months sometimes. This followed by sopping wet, buggy springs, followed by hot, muggy, buggy summers. Good thing Autumn is nice! :-)

Well, all the talk of history etc in this thread has motivated me to get out of the house today and go exploring. There's so much within walking distance, so I decided to head to a farm that's about a mile away that date's back to 930 AD. It's a bit of a thread derail, so apologies.
Roman and Mediaeval pottery literally just lying on the floor in the field across from the house. You could fill a bucket in under an hour or so with this stuff.

Nice walk through the woods, a well that I suspect dates back quite a long way, although the brick work that can be seen is relatively recent ( last century).

I made it to the farm, but the owner wasn't in so I didn't snoop about or take any pics but I'm hoping to head out there again soon.
A great afternoon, so thank you to this thread for getting me out the house. And to stay true to the spirit of the thread my wife was less than impressed at the pocket fulls of broken old pottery I bought home!

I thought that it would be a great idea to take a (well paying) job way, way, way, way, way, way, way up north. I mean, I live in the north now, but I mean so far north that only planes or ice roads can get in.
Hubby freaked out reminding me that there was no P.Doc up there and 6 months of darkness...and I get really bad SAD...plus I hate winter...and they have 10 months of it
...it seemed like a good idea at the time