[wing]

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.

[Travelinglady]

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.

[Travelinglady]

Gee, nobody does anything else? I think it's an interesting question.

[Travelinglady]

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?

[Skeezyks]

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.

[winter4me]

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...

[GranCindy]

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!!