(poll) what new hobby have you started since the lockdown

[mercuryblues]

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	Baking
	0 (0%)
	Drawing
	0 (0%)
	Gardening
	1 (7%)
	Reading
	0 (0%)
	Creating an enemies list
	2 (13%)
	Sitting on your porch yelling at kids
	0 (0%)
	watching Netflix
	1 (7%)
	None/other
	11 (73%)
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[5X]

1. There haven't been any kids walking by. n/t

[mercuryblues]

29. We don't either

I thought about putting in "watching your grass grow" but my spouse cuts it every 3 days, so I can't do that either.

I thought about washing the pollen off my front porch, but the birds have taken over and building nests. Hell one even built a nest in the grill of our truck because we hadn't driven it in over a month.

[Hugin]

2. Making up new monikers for Old Yeller.

Reading labels and expiration dates.
Finding out all of the settings on my smart phone.

[mercuryblues]

45. Old Yeller?

My kids would call me that if they know who it was.

[Goodheart]

3. Fermenting vegetables

Sourdough baking
Resin sculpting


On top of my previous hobbies:
3d Printing
Scroll saw woodworking
Furry mask making
Papier mache sculpting

[Codeine]

58. Pickles are where it's at.

I plan on pickling some cauliflower this weekend.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. just doing what we typically do. Easier in this rural area, as a gardener, so just stay put.

hardly any disruption to our lives at all and we feel very lucky.

[Marrah_Goodman]

5. I've been learning to paint

I have always done crafts but this is a new one for me. One of the people I am staying with is very good and has been teaching me. I took a little of my stimulus money and bought my own supplies once I realized I liked it.

[mercuryblues]

18. I've been wanting to do that for years

Then I realized my painting would look more like a baby Picasso did them instead of Monet.

[Luz]

21. I took up paint by numbers, but it's still no Monet ☺

[Marrah_Goodman]

44. I thought mine would be terrible

I've never been good at drawing and such. But besides my friend teaching me, I have been using youtube video tutorials and they are coming out not too terrible

I bought a starter kit including a tabletop easel at Michaels.

[SheltieLover]

64. Awesome!

Check out the art sherpa site. Good stuff!

[Marrah_Goodman]

67. I am doing one of hers right now!!

[SheltieLover]

68. 😁👍

Which one?

[Marrah_Goodman]

71. The one with the cherry tree holding the moon

[SheltieLover]

72. Ooooh

I will go look.

[SheltieLover]

73. Gorgeous!

Can you post it when it is complete? 😁

[SheltieLover]

63. Lol

Well, get finger paints. 👍 very cathartic! 😍

I studied lots of art therapy & it's all process based.

A great book on this is Pat B. Allen's "Art is a way of knowing."

[WhiteTara]

6. going through Pinterest

looking at ways to upgrade our house and how to build a chicken coop. It's a great way to be very creative while sitting still.

[zanana1]

7. I'm trying to learn how to crochet.

I'm using a YouTube video tutorial on how to get started. It baffles me that I have tried to learn this craft numerous times without being able to do it.

[Goodheart]

8. I think that one of the consequences of this coronavirus crisis

is that many of us will reexamine our lives.... to assess what we really need and expect from life. And that many of us will decide that we can get by with simpler and more relaxed activities.

[SheltieLover]

62. I think you are correct

Lots of introspection time. 👍

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. I do my same hobby.

Hand sewing quilts.

So far, I have finished one completely, and gifted it. I am now nearly finished piecing the top of a second one. Should finish it by about July.

[Goodheart]

11. Gift ME one!

[Cracklin Charlie]

13. I gift them all.

It’s kinda cool to see one that I made five years ago. It happened yesterday, when I went to a birthday parade. One of the little kids (he’s 5 now) was wrapped up in the quilt I made when he was born.

It’s like seeing an old friend.

ps...I’ll put you on my list. Expect delivery in 2025.

[Goodheart]

56. You da man!

[mercuryblues]

15. yes, Quilting is time consuming

I'm still waiting on the one my sister almost finished for me 25 years ago.

[Igel]

10. More time for language learning and music.

Violin's causing pain; started piano in January.

Returned to language learning, given the additional time available.

[Maeve]

12. Making masks

And crochet....lots of crochet (but I've been doing that for years)

[mercuryblues]

16. Oh man.

If I knew you were making masks, I would have bought a few from you. I still might, if you're selling. I bought 2 off ETSY yesterday. 1 for me and 1 for my spouse. I'm not sure if they tie or are elastic because the description was very brief. I also want them so the form a tight seal around my face.

They did have the features, I've been looking for...nose clips and a slot to put in filters. I ordered the polypropylene material and HEPA filters on Amazon to make my own filters.

[Maeve]

33. No, not selling

Just for Mom, hubby and me to get thru this comfortably. Mostly out of what I have around...old t-shirt material or bandanas, found some elastic tucked away in my seeing stuff. I figure masks will be a thing for months to come.

[PJMcK]

14. Not a new hobby

I've been doing all of the household projects that I didn't have time for.

For example, today I'm going to move a couple of tons of No. 2 stone from the pile at the top of my driveway to surround my music cabin. It'll take a few hours but it's going to be a nice day with temperatures in the low 60s.

I want to build new shelves for our kitchen pantry so that'll be my project for the end of the week.

Little by little, I'm getting stuff done! Miraculously, I'm able to still work remotely and that takes about 2-3 hours of each day.

[mercuryblues]

17. I'm doing the opposite

I'm doing a little of that each day. Gotta save something to do for tomorrow and tomorrow never comes. So, I'm good.

[Amishman]

19. This, tons of painting and house repairs

marked half a dozen dead trees to drop, could do lots more. Next few weekends will be dropping them, cutting them, and splitting them. Going to have firewood to sell in the fall.

[mercuryblues]

27. My spouse already did that

and still wants to do about 10 more. When my older son was out of work for a few weeks, we paid him to help cut them down. He needed the income, he still had rent to pay and we needed the help. Win-Win.

Heck, we even had a fire the last few nights. It dipped to about 50 and below. Mid May, in the South.

[pnwest]

20. Re-acquainting myself with guitar for the

first time in 15 years, trying to unlearn bad habits. Plus taking the HR Block tax prep course so I’ll have a completely new career come next year. Those two things pretty much fill my day.

[mercuryblues]

28. What musical genre are you interested in playing?

[pnwest]

34. LOL - all the C G A D songs :) . Mostly

I picked up guitar so I could talk to musicians (former frequenter of blues open stages as a singer) more knowledgeably, and to help with song writing. I have very small hands, I can’t do barre chords, so I’ll never be a really versatile player. I have such varied musical interests, I’ve not even thought of playing only certain genres. Just anything I can play well enough to accompany myself while singing - original songs especially.

[MuseRider]

22. I always do the first 4.

I live in the country so there are rarely kids walking by and we are off the road anyway.

My son is living with us for a job (?) maybe soon so he thought his elderly mother might enjoy World of Warcraft. So that is what I am doing when not doing everything else. It is pretty easy at the beginning and I think I quite enjoy it.

[mercuryblues]

26. when my youngest came home for Spring break

Then went to Online classes, he brought his Xbox home. Unbeknownst to us he had purchased a used Xbox for school, from a friend. Now he had 2 xboxes in the house. The one he bought, he put in the family room and his friend say go ahead and use my Netfix account.

It took me days and a lot of eyerolls from my kid to figure out how to use the remote. Now I'm hooked.

[MuseRider]

36. Mine laughed at me a lot

when I was trying to play the newer Zelda games on the Wii. I could not get the hang of walking or running in a straight line or turning without running off a cliff. As slow as I went it just never felt comfortable. This is why he suggested I try WoW because using the keyboard and the mouse together made it feel more intuitive and he was right. I still run into rock walls and bad guys that kill me on the spot because I then get all flustered and end up shooting the wrong way. Actually I am not sure that is possible but I am too flustered to know, lol. I do like it and if I actually get into it he is willing to let me play on his game for a while. If I really like it I will get my own and pay for it like "all the kids do". I guess we are the forecast of the future. Old people playing video games. It certainly makes me pay attention more than puzzles do.

[mercuryblues]

38. When all this came out

I taught them how to play. 20+ years later they roll their eyes at me.

[MuseRider]

47. Exactly!!

I remember hours of sitting on the floor with them as we learned the first Mario Bros. We played games together all the way through their high school years, although much less as they got that old. "Mommy, can you get me past this bad guy?". And now they laugh. 😜

[shockey80]

23. Drinking.

[mercuryblues]

24. Well, that's not new for me

Unless you're talking about drinking OJ straight up.

[mokawanis]

25. Writing

My wife is working on a book and I'm writing a journal for my kids to read when I'm gone.

[mercuryblues]

35. I saw some of those on Amazon

yesterday when looking for a birthday gift for my MIL. I thought, what a good idea. I bought her a coffee mug with a cute saying instead.

"I survived another meeting that could have been done by email"

She sits on a few boards and is always complaining about 3 hour meetings where90% of what they discuss could be covered in an email chain.

Right about now, I bet she wishes for a meeting to go to.

[Cirque du So-What]

30. Brewing beer

with yeast harvested from my newly-grown beard.







j/k

[mercuryblues]

37. I have some toe jam

If you're interested in making jelly/jam. Where can I mail it to? LOL

[FakeNoose]

31. I'm listening to a lot more music now

I've discovered a wonderful thing called Spotify. During the day I keep my TV off and mostly listen to music.

When the weather's a little nicer I'll be doing more yardwork and gardening. Since I'm already retired I can't really say that the quarantine has changed me much, except that I'm doing less shopping and spending more time at home.

[mercuryblues]

39. This is my favorite new song

I heard it months ago and love it.

[FakeNoose]

41. Cool!

I haven't heard this before but I'll look for it on Spotify. It seems they have everything on there.

[mercuryblues]

43. I am going to add this to my Sunday playlist

All Along the Watchtower
Sympathy for the Devil
Imagine
Black Magic Woman
Knockin' on Heaven's Door
House of the Rising Sun
Bohemian Rhapsody
Whipping Post
One Toke Over the Line

[ananda]

32. Actually two.

Baking and working puzzles.

I might start doing crosswords again too.

I already play bridge online several days a week.
Just got two firsts already this week!

BBO adjusted its website and added a server to
accommodate ACBL club games. It's a pretty
good deal for us shelterers, but of course I
would prefer to play with all my friends back
in the club.

[mercuryblues]

40. I haven't don a puzzle in ages

[Thyla]

42. Still pretty busy but without the commute

It gives me more time to spend with my little trees(bonsai).

Also now starting to plan for the future, we are starting to think about drastically changing the way we live.

[Talitha]

46. No new ones - but now there's more time for the ones I already had.

[txwhitedove]

48. Sit on the couch, checking Pinterest while watching Gov Cuomo, and yelling at my

granddaughter about graduation plans. Also reading, watching the morning squirrel in front yard who's being dive bombed by the bluejay, and building raised bed vege planters.

[mercuryblues]

79. Graduation plans

As much as I hate graduation ceremonies, I hate not going to them even more. One of my kids just recently got her Masters degree. A few months ago I was dreading sitting for 2 hours for the ceremony. As I was watching her name scroll across my PC, I cried and got angry. There would be no hugs, no pictures and no party to celebrate her achievement.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

49. Mostly hiking - but that's not really new

Just doing it a bit more than before.

[Victor_c3]

50. I got a saltwater tank up and running

I’ve actually been doing this for years, but I had to take a break from it when I moved a while back. Now that I’m single (thanks to my wife divorcing me), I have time and money to dump into my hobbies.

I also put up a wooden accent wall in my apartment to make everything look nicer.





The second picture is of a sump tank. You connect the two tanks and you can put all of the filters and heaters and junk you need for the aquarium in the sump so it’s not in the main tank in the living room. I also plan to grow algae in the second take as a nutrient removal method and to provide an area for super small animals called copepods to grow and flourish. These copepods will occasionally wander away from the algae and get sucked up by the pumps and go to the main display tank in my living room, which provides a nice treat to the fish living there!

The system is new so I don’t have many fish in it or corals yet. As a responsible aquarist, all of my corals are grown and propagated from other captive corals. There is quite an industry of guys who grow corals and sell them. These corals also tend to grow better in aquariums than corals taken directly from the ocean.



My youngest daughter likes to sit there to do her schoolwork

[mercuryblues]

51. I don't blame her, I would sit there too.

The is something so serene about an aquarium.

[Victor_c3]

53. Exactly

I only have five fish, two shrimp, a sea urchin and handful of dwarf hermit crabs but I stare at it more than I watch TV. I’ll slowly be adding fish over the next few months and I’ll eventually have about 20 fish in there.

I want a school of 11 of these guys (Pseudanthias ignitus)



And a single one of these guys (Chaetodon tinkeri)



He’s usually goes for $600-$800!!

[mercuryblues]

54. At that price, I would by a few

and start selling the babies to support my habit.

[Hortensis]

85. :) There are hobbies, and then there are HOBBIES!

Enthusiasms and happy obsessions are wonderful gifts. Congrats on resuming yours. It's already beautiful.

[Jersey Devil]

52. My wife and I have revived the afternoon matinee

Sure we're not as limber as we were when we were young, but the cool thing is that we don't have to send the kids to the movies anymore to be alone

[mercuryblues]

57. A song just for you 2

&list=RDwu1UXCdyNo0&start_radio=1&t=4

[Bayard]

55. I've never stopped doing most of those

Right now, I'm in garden frenzy. One of these years, I'm going to clear out the weeds in the fall, instead of waiting till spring when its time to PLANT.

Other than that, I've worked from home for many years, but business sucks at the moment. I'm back to biting my nails. Who's going to see them?

[Codeine]

59. Not a new one, but a big push on my old hobby

of painting historical miniatures (ie toy soldiers). Starting a batch of of British infantry for the Napoleonic Wars, equipped for the Peninsular Campaign.

Also making some pickles.

Funnily enough I’m not actually on lockdown, but seeing everyone else diving into their hobbies energized me to get going on my own.

[mercuryblues]

60. those 2 hobbies are completely different

Cool on the miniatures. You have to have a steady hand to do something like that.

[IcyPeas]

61. drawing with watercolor pencils

I've had them for years but never used them. it's fun.

[SheltieLover]

65. Sounds like fun!

[SheltieLover]

66. I have

About 50 games of ScrabbleGo open. i've been enjoying this, reading, painting & drawing more.

[mercuryblues]

83. 50 shades of ScrabbleGo

[SheltieLover]

87. Lol

Maddening at times, but a great diversion from the traitor's antics.

[Demovictory9]

69. not new but revived old hobbies

[EarthFirst]

70. I picked up my fly rod that I've been ignoring for some years...

Tough for me to sit idle; so I’ve been social distancing on the stream.

[LeftInTX]

74. Reverse gardening!!

Weed whacking away at my Asian jasmine. It's been growing up against the house for too long. Too many weeds. My yard is full of plants, it looks like a cross between the Legend of Sleepy Hollow and a jungle.

I should have done this over the winter, but went to Colorado. Texas is really hot in the summer and I only do this in short bursts. It's too hot to plant anything.

Now I'm bugging hubby to hedge the boxwoods. I almost lost a finger with the electric hedge trimmer in 2016, so I've only manually pruned them, but it's alot of word.

[mercuryblues]

78. I have some night blooming Jasmine

that absolutely refused to grow. After years of trying I finally ripped it out. Now of course, I rip it out every year. I've started to think I'll give it another chance.

[NurseJackie]

75. Sewing.

[mercuryblues]

82. This is the 1st time I regret donating my sewing machine

15 years ago.

[NurseJackie]

86. I had not used mine just about as long. I regret not taking it out sooner...

... as I'm re-learning skills long forgotten, I now feel foolish for paying the kind gentleman at the dry-cleaners to make minor repairs in hems and cuffs and seams that had come apart. Over the years, I've paid him to mend things about a dozen times, and I could have done it myself and saved at least $100.

Out of sheer boredom, I'm looking for things around the house to mend or strengthen. (I've already made pleated masks for all my family members.)

[Polybius]

76. Stock market

I've been putting a lot of money into it.

[Xolodno]

77. Doing stuff that I've been saying for years...

...I'll eventually get to.

[DFW]

80. The commonly told story here in Germany is:

Wife to husband: "What have you done today?"

Husband to wife: "Nothing."

Wife to husband: ""You did nothing yesterday."

Husband to wife: "I'm not finished yet."

[mercuryblues]

81. Funny

[Meowmee]

84. Mine are

Checking pulse ox, temp and bp heart rate and managing pain while I am still recovering from covid pneumonia and back pain week 5. Sanitizing & Steaming everything that comes inside etc.

[mercuryblues]

88. I am so happy you are getting better

I mentioned to my spouse we needed to go grocery shopping more often. I am tired of washing so many groceries at once. You gave me a great idea to help me along with that...steaming. It will work great on the vegetables.

[Meowmee]

89. Thanks💕 I am still having a lot of pain

Unfortunately, just hope it stops soon. Hematolgist said ok to take aleve.

I don’tt steam the veggies, I steam the outside bag etc , then wash them with soap and water if it has a thick skin and soak in veggie wash.