Crafts for a hobby
Eleonore Beaudoin
I dunno, but making paperdolls or wooden toys or assembling cars ad planes
or whatever else for a hobby that involves your hands, liek crafts of some
sort?
C
David
wrote:
I like to kayak backwater areas. I've also been spending 4-12 hour
sessions on the weekends restoring an old car. I saw the old junker
and asked if it could be repaired. Mind you I started this little
venture without any car knowledge, save for where to put gas in
and who to pay for everything else. Now I've removed nearly every
bolt in the car and worked on something. It has been a great hobby
and distraction from my daytime (desk) job. We're getting close
to the 24 month mark and the car is almost together and functional
again. All cleaned up and looking good -- just don't look inside.
That's right, there is still no interior. That is my springtime
project. It will be far more work than I ever planned and perhaps
more costly too. There will be great satisfaction being able to
drive something I helped bring back to life.
My recommendation is that if you feel like you don't have a hobby
or other interests you should get one.
David
Lone Wolf
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:12:49 UTC, bc...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Eleonore Beaudoin)
> wrote:
>
>
>>Does anyone in here have a manual hobby (no, masturbation does nto cutn!!:))?
>>
<pouts>
and thats my favorite :p
>>I dunno, but making paperdolls or wooden toys or assembling cars ad planes
>>or whatever else for a hobby that involves your hands, liek crafts of some
>>sort?
i use to be into those plstic model kits, back when they were cheap.
does playing vide games count?
i do have a couple of things, creating desktop wallpaper and working on
my website.
lone wolf
Eleonore Beaudoin
social interaction,too!
If you ever care for it, I know where I parked an old ambassador, 12
cylinders, inline.(sic). Was a rarity when it was dine already for the 12,
so imagine now....People don't believe me when I tel them I owned one way
back. Was my first car.
Itstill was running fine when I parked it. I just foudn there was a smell
of exaust inside, even if all muffler pipes were fine, and I always rolled
with the windows down in the end. Havign kiddo made em too worry that th4e
exaust fumes I smelled(and no oen else did) coudl affect him, so I parked
it. It,s at an acquaintance farm, if they still have it there. They did
last I heard:).
C
Eleonore Beaudoin
> David wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:12:49 UTC, bc...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Eleonore Beaudoin)
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Does anyone in here have a manual hobby (no, masturbation does nto cutn!!:))?
>>>
>
> <pouts>
> and thats my favorite :p
>
>>>I dunno, but making paperdolls or wooden toys or assembling cars ad planes
>>>or whatever else for a hobby that involves your hands, liek crafts of some
>>>sort?
>
> i use to be into those plstic model kits, back when they were cheap.
>
> does playing vide games count?
> i do have a couple of things, creating desktop wallpaper and working on
> my website.
The desktop wallpaper sure counts!!!
Talking about "counts"...nice typo I half had with the maturbation and
"cunt" pun, up there.
Freud would have had material for another chapter right there;-)
:)
Lone Wolf
> Lone Wolf (night...@Cookieshaw.ca) writes:
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>>David wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 21 Oct 2006 14:12:49 UTC, bc...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Eleonore Beaudoin)
>>>wrote:
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>>>
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>>>>Does anyone in here have a manual hobby (no, masturbation does nto cutn!!:))?
>>>>
>>
>><pouts>
>>and thats my favorite :p
>>
>>
>>>>I dunno, but making paperdolls or wooden toys or assembling cars ad planes
>>>>or whatever else for a hobby that involves your hands, liek crafts of some
>>>>sort?
>>
>>i use to be into those plstic model kits, back when they were cheap.
>>
>>does playing vide games count?
>>i do have a couple of things, creating desktop wallpaper and working on
>>my website.
>
>
> The desktop wallpaper sure counts!!!
>
> Talking about "counts"...nice typo I half had with the maturbation and
> "cunt" pun, up there.
> Freud would have had material for another chapter right there;-)
>
> :)
lmao
Lone Wolf
should check, you could get a pretty penny for it ;)
Eleonore Beaudoin
If it stillwoudl be there, the money woudl go to the widow of the man
who,s land I left it on. I am sure she coudl se it:)
David
I remember you mentioning the Amassador many moons ago. No one seemed
to need another project. Perhaps when I've got this one done I'll
consider it. A 12 cylander inline would be a wonderful engine to
clean up and show off. They are unusual by today's standards.
Projects like this can be wonderful. Right now for me it is cleaning
up and fixing this car. To many it is their home that gets the love.
I'm usually a renter, so there isn't much to do but maintenance.
David
Eleonore Beaudoin
> Hi Chloe,
>
> I remember you mentioning the Amassador many moons ago. No one seemed
> to need another project. Perhaps when I've got this one done I'll
> consider it. A 12 cylander inline would be a wonderful engine to
> clean up and show off. They are unusual by today's standards.
When I had it in the early 80s,. it already was drawing a ot of attention.
It lookedlike nothing, but the second peoplerealized it was a 12 in line,
theyd call their friends or soupses and kids to come seethatas they never
woudl again.
I dunno if it still si where I elft it. I know it still was 15 yars after,
the last time I happened to go there. But mayeb they kept it to see if the
value would go up....Not a clue.
All I know s I never gave the registratiosn away, cause fo the exaust
problem that they never coudl find. Did not want to ahve anyone's death on
my mind.
The motor on it was boosted. Not a 351, the one higher than that, I seem
to remember, and boosted. Double carburator and all. Was a detective car
when I bought it, without knowign it was at the time. It also was fully
"police packaged", all wires for the equipment still there, but no
cop equipment with it of course.
Not one sports car ever coud beat thatcar in races. It often was
challenged. I guess peoplelearned to recognize it case I ahd painted it
pink....At lights, cars woud get nose t nose then start roaring their
motors. But I woudl lose them within 200 feet at most.
Very powerful thing it was. ever knew how fast it could go, the odometer
ended at 120, and it still accelerated so much at 120, that pressure still
kept me squished against the back of the seat. I only woudl slow down
cause the fender on the drivers side gave signs of wantign to "catch in
the wind" and dd not want it to rip off.
The outisde was absolutely boring for a car No nice lines or anything.
Family looking car...Looked liek the usual gms or old pontiacs.
Itwas a 69, and was made with lines that must already have been boring in
69. Not an eye catcher in any way.
>
> Projects like this can be wonderful. Right now for me it is cleaning
> up and fixing this car. To many it is their home that gets the love.
> I'm usually a renter, so there isn't much to do but maintenance.
Yeah...But maintening a rented place can be lots of work still, just for
the clean up...and you never get to see it resembling anythign you'd like
ause it is not yours to change walls or add this pantry or move that oen
there or have a washroom installed on the forstfloor. Woud be done so
fast here if it was mine,. I hate havign a washroom upstairs only.
The same, I never card much for laundry room in a basement. I always
figured thatwas the idea when men never did the laundry yet. In thsoe
days, it seemed quite fine for them to ahve their wives go wash in the
basement, pregnant and her barefeet on the cold concrete.
I just like to catch the laudry and dryign just as it is done,and when not
on the main floor, that is rather a pain.
Went to do a bit of grocery. Exceptionally, I bought frzen stuff this
time. Cold is buggign me too much to feel like cooking and I yethave to
feed myself. Ths way I won,t call for take outs and at least save on that...
Gave Lad his food, changed the aged birds food and water...Still ave
laundry fo eh week to do, garbages to take out aagain, Titan and T'tle to
feed, the aquarium filter to rinse after the big job it did last week, the
water still beign foggy when I istalled the new stuff in the filter, and
wanna vacuum, empty the dishwasher and put the dirty dishes in.
Thought I;d not feel liek sleepign early given hwo much I slept this
weekend, btu I already feel sleepy:(, so might just do the necessar
laundry and keep the restfr some other day, if the pets d need fed thoug.
Tu'tle and Titan still have not eaten....
Yawn...Man, yo.d think a Tse Tse fly got me.....
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz;-)
Nighty night, David!
C
> > David
sumire
how about painting?
Last Tuesday I joined a portrait class
and we went abstract by doing the
portraits with eyes closed or fixed on
the person we were drawing - without even looking at the painting hand and
canvas.
Meohmy, imagine those fantastic abstract outcomes.
But they were more characteristic than any artful
portarit could have been ;-)
Sumi
Eleonore Beaudoin
Hmmm....Are you sure that teacher ever painted before...? L:)
;-)
Painting....Hmmmm...I'd love to try that again. But instead of buying
paint in tubes, this time,buy them in cans. As in wall paint. That oughta
do just fine, seems to me, and be way less expensive. And if we are gonna
paint with our eyes closed, the more the reason to buy the paint the same
way;-).
> Sumi
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>
sumire
> painted before...? L:) ;-)
Yep, she's quite good. Has had exhibitions
in France and all over places. One of her
paintings is hanging on my dining room wall.
its title: Joy :-)
She is also quite good in gestalt therapy.
Plus she's good with children. Quite a
remarkable person. Very focused. Whilst
I am the whirlwind - she's the eye of the
hurricane ;-)
Sumi
Eleonore Beaudoin
You make it sound as if she paints using a blender, hehehe;-)
Good idea in fact...A blender with the lid off, and move the canvas
about. Eyes closed, even better: No need to "hang" the painting on the wall
then;-)
> > Sumi
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