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metamorphosist
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What do you like to do with your time? Why do you enjoy it?
I have started using pencils to color mandalas. I am not an artist so trying my hand at any sort of painting is frustrating. Choosing a design and colors, plus the tactile sensation of scribbling is soothing to me. Sometimes I feel like I’m wasting time. I’m trying to teach myself that enjoying something for it’s own sake is a worthwhile endeavor. |
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Skeezyks, Travelinglady
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I like to color, too, but I haven't done it lately.
I mainly read, write, and watch TV these days, I also do some of the word puzzles, and crossword puzzles in the newspaper. I have also worked on jigsaw puzzles. |
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Gee, nobody does anything else? I think it's an interesting question.
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Well, I am now into flowers and plants. I planted some honeysuckle vines yesterday. I love the smell of them. I just need to keep them under control!
And my mint plants are finally perking up. I bought them from eBay and they looked really pitiful when I first opened the package. But I've been babying them and some of them are putting out new leaves. Anybody else into gardening besides Wing? |
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My wife's the gardener in our household. I have a brown thumb. Everything I try to grow turns brown & dies. Actually, though, we don't either of us do much of anything in the way of gardening anymore because we live in a townhome. So we have no place for a garden. My wife puts a few pots out on the patio for the summer.
My own favorite pastime is watching the BBC mysteries they show on our local PBS TV station... "Unforgotten", "Vera", "Shetland", etc. I do some home bread baking as well. But nowadays this feels as much or more like work than it does pleasure. We have a dog we both love (& have since we adopted him some 14 years ago.) But he's getting so old & frail at this point that about all he does is sleep... & eat when we can find something he'll eat. That's about it for me. I used to like to read. But I don't have any enthusiasm for it anymore. I just read posts here on PC. __________________ "I may be older but I am not wise / I'm still a child's grown-up disguise / and I never can tell you what you want to know / You will find out as you go." (from: "A Nightengale's Lullaby" - Julie Last) |
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I too spend a good deal of time with the shows (& their ilk) skeezyks mentions
I do have a garden but am not harvesting the herbs as often as I could, tomatoes are coming, the rest are flowers...I do a bit of weeding, nothing major I knit and may or may not actually make something. I'd love to find the right dog, ...and someone to talk with who I feel comfortable with...ah well I suppose it could happen... I was an avid, relentless reader and that has faded...my head goes in too many directions and it is harder to settle down with anything----I think the shows are helpful because they involve all senses and take you away to another place...not just characters but landscapes... __________________ "...don't say Home / the bones of that word mend slowly...' marie harris |
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It's interesting to see this thread because I am bored right now and looking for something to do besides clean the house! Technically, I am on the remote work clock, but I have everything caught up. I have taken a couple of walks today. Thinking about hiking a little. We had a heck of a thunderstorm a bit ago, so it's not too terribly hot, and the mountains have a little cloud cover. I am expecting a call but haven't heard a peep on that end either...this is when living alone, away from family, with no friends in town is a challenge. I need a new hobby. I am an avid reader, genealogist, cook, metaphysical researcher/student but I can't get into any of that today. I too like to color some of the adult coloring books, especially on sacred geometry and energy medicine. I feel like I should do something physical now though...have gained some weight over those months at home! And we need this pandemic to end so I can go visit my granddaughter!!
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