Patent Pending - Dream or Reality?

People are always making fun of me because I come up with lots of crazy inventions.  My workshop in the basement is full of different gadgets that I have come up with over the years that I have never really done much with once I have completed them.  Neighbors are coming to me all the time saying I need this or that done, do you have any idea how to do it?  So I usually come up with something.  Now folks are telling me to apply for patents and earn some money.  So I hired a patent lawyer, and believe it or not, I actually have a Patent Pending on one of my little “gizmo’s”.