Comments on: Pastimes: What Do You Enjoy?

By: Julie D

Julie D — Wed, 25 May 2011 08:44:49 +0000

I love to cook and try out recipes I see in the internet. Aside from reading, eating is one of life’s biggest pleasures in my opinion. My dream is to have an herb garden where I can get fresh ingredients for my recipes.

By: lauren

lauren — Fri, 20 May 2011 19:54:02 +0000

Reading is escape for me, but I do indulge in a few things that also bring me joy! Gardening, especially herbs and hostas, my herb garden is for mostly culinary uses but I do have some lavender that this year I hope to harvest for sachets and such. I also knit, adding beads to my projects is something I love…but I have tendency to get tied up in a book and forget my knitting. My DH and I are avid car nutz and we travel to car shows with our collector cars…its great fun to see older cars and meet their owners, its quite fun to learn how people find and restore their treasures!

By: AARPatH

AARPatH — Fri, 20 May 2011 04:38:11 +0000

Carrie, I make miniatures. You can follow my blog (started at the urging of my younger daughter who kept asking, “How do you do this, mom?”) at http://www.miniaturepat.blogspot.com . I don’t promise that I blog every day, but I try to keep my far-flung family in the mix as to how I’m keeping out of trouble. I’m currently working on a potting shed for my husband who has always wanted one.

By: RobinC

RobinC — Thu, 19 May 2011 23:20:14 +0000

Do babies count? I LOVE babies. I don’t have kids of my own and never wanted to after raising my (much) younger siblings and having custody of various nieces and nephews. My family and friends have given me babies, babies, and more babies for the past 21 years. My little brother and his wife just had twin boys 6 weeks ago.

I love all “my” kids no matter what age, but babies are special. I volunteer in the nursery at church and rock babies at the hospital several times a week. I lead a babysitting workshop for teens and counsel at a pregnancy crisis center. Everyone knows they can call me up and I’ll come running to babysit. I also spend way too much money on baby items and clothing. I love shopping, fixing things up, and figuring out who I’ll give them to. Nobody looks at you strange for rolling around in the grass or singing nursery rhymes if you’ve got a toddler with you. LOL.

All the fun and none of stress! Nothing fills my heart so full as holding a baby in my arms.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Thu, 19 May 2011 23:06:25 +0000

I’ve never thought of this as a pastime or hobby exactly, but I really enjoy volunteer work. I give many hours to the Friends of the Library – I’m on the committee that runs the bookstore and I do the newsletter – and Assistance League, which runs a thrift store and raises money to buy new school clothes for kids in need. One thing I like about these projects is I get to spend time working with my friends. Reading is my major hobby/pastime though. I get cranky when I’m too busy to read. Really. Everyone notices.

By: Heather

Heather — Thu, 19 May 2011 21:53:44 +0000

In addition to reading anything and everything I can (including the back of the cereal box and the instructions for the VCR), I am a gourmet cook and I do handmade rubber-stamped cards. My favorite part of cardmaking is coloring with various mediums on the stamped images.

By: xina

xina — Thu, 19 May 2011 20:58:27 +0000

Love shopping for shoes…no, seriously, I do. But that might be under addiction instead of hobby. Other things…I play the piano quite a bit. Mostly classical music. It relaxes me. I love to read. I’m just getting into photography with my daughter. We are shopping for a new camera tonight in fact. I used to sew quite a bit, but not so much anymore. I feel like I can just pick that up at any time. I love to garden too, but my large perennial garden is filled with weeds right now. It’s overwhelming, but very pretty at full bloom. Love to cook, not bake..cook. And I love my dogs and my cat. My pets are precious to me.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:44:01 +0000

Aside from my job as a college English teaching and my life as a bookworm, I ride horses. Horses and books have been my passion since I was a small child, and they remain that today. When not working, I’m at the barn. Sometimes like yesterday (which was a beautiful day here in Portland, OR) I even take my horse out to graze and read at the same time. I ride western and English and am in a group dressage class too.

By: Carrie

Carrie — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:23:18 +0000

I don’t do any handcrafts. I read. That’s my hobby. I do enough yard work for the place not to look shabby, and I take long walks with the dog to keep healthy, and I take the dog to the dog park where I’ve met many new friends. I guess my main “hobby” in the past 20+ years has been researching, planning, and homeschooling my 5 children.

Oh, wait! My husband bought me a ukelele for Christmas and my daughter’s mandolin teacher is giving me short lessons every couple of weeks to help me learn it. It’s fun.

And Pat, did I miss it, or did you forget to tell us your hobbies?

By: RobinB

RobinB — Thu, 19 May 2011 18:34:24 +0000

Like Leigh and Sandy, I needlepoint when I’m not reading! My most recent finished project (I have quite a few unfinished ones, or UFO’s as our stitching circle refers to them!) is a pillow that I stitched for my cousin’s latest grandchild. I’ve learned to do quite a few different stitches, but sometimes it’s just stress-relieving to do the good old tent stitch!

Knitting is something that my mother tried to teach me years ago, but it wasn’t successful because Mom was left-handed and I’m right-handed, so–let’s just say that she had better luck teaching me needlepoint!