The projects that you have mentioned you maybe will be doing, sound like pretty extensive projects to me. I think alot of it comes down to, if you feel up to doing them and will actually tear into it. Do you really want to be working on extensive projects in your golden years, or would you just as soon be doing something else?? Perhaps even something less extensive. If you can answer that, then you may be answering your own question here.
Procrastination is also a factor here. The older one gets, the less a guy can play the procrastination card. That, (I'll get to that someday) seems to be something that we all have, but with every day that ticks by, is time fading away that we no longer have for those someday projects. If you can be out there working on it tomarow (after we all take a day off to eat turkey today) then go for it. But if your telling yourself that you'll get to it next month, or after the first of the year simply just because it's Thanksgiving today, then that is procrastination and these are projects you won't get around to because of it.
I knew an old guy that old machines was his whole world. Always had projects going on, even in retirement, and at the time of his death. He was always buying and selling and fixing up. But, ... a project didn't sit around un-done at his place very long. He maybe had a couple in progress, and one or two in waiting all the time. It's what he did. And more importantly, what he wanted to do. He didn't procrastinate, and accumulate projects that he'd never get to. If he did, he would of had a half section of un-done projects. But is what he had in retirement, was a couple of lots in town. Sometimes you couldn't park another thing on those two lots of his, but everything sitting there mostly ran, and was something that he had worked on and got running. He sold alot of running stuff over the years so that his hobby could continue on. But what he did, and wanted to do, isn't for everybody. That might not be somebody else's cup of tea. Somebody else might rather go golfing, or spend more time with the wife and grandkids.
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