Do you have a winter hobby?

I play fiddle. I play Old-timey, Irish, and some Cape Breton and French Canadian tunes. In the summer I spend time outside in the garden after work so winter is when I have more time to practice.

I don't know! We used to milk cows and surviving chore times was the main concern in winter!

I did get a recorder -- a cheapie plastic one and fingering charts off the internet -- and started to try and play it but dropped and broke it. I used to play flute but like the sound of a recorder and am contemplating getting a "real" one and continuing.

A big chunk of the winter is not actually fun, but going through the farm books and preparing our taxes :waa: and operating loan update.

Ann

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Planning, reading, indoor cleaning. I want to get to my egg crafts this winter also. Also, since it is not cold and snowy all winter here I use this time to burn piles of brush when the weather cooperates.

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We are older and our plans are to redo the basement club area more permanently with partition. In other words we are going to work this winter on remodeling the house for to be sold in future. Better now than mad rush in a few years.
Reading, painting for profit, ebay.

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Boy I just read all these posts and some people are very very busy during the winter. Our winters here in Montana tend to be nasty cold and windy. So building stuff outside is off the list till summer (the whole week of summer LOL). That is kind of a relief since I have just finished busting my buns with too many projects this summer already!. I attend the University of Great Falls full time via computer and so I will be going to class 4 days a week and all the homework and research papers will keep me busy. We also must snowmobile 6 miles down to where we can park the car once the heavy snow starts, so a trip to town each week is a real treat (get to have pie!) and takes a whole day to accomplish. Besides splitting wood, caring for chickens and dogs (they keep freezing their pads but wont leave their boots on!), cleaning the house, making christmas gifts etc I find I have no time to get to the books I have set aside to read this winter. One and a half more years of school then things will slow down- or not!

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Since, we live in NC and snow, ice and "real" winter weather is not too much of a problem, life usually goes on with a reg. routine! :waa: I used to hate winter storms but the older I get the more I look forward to the "down" time that a winter storm brings. It makes us slow down, use the food we have canned , froze and dryed thru the harvest time. Before Christmas, I use extra/down time to work on deep cleaning the house and making Chirstmas presents. After the holidays, I use down time to read, knit, sew, do crafts--I never am bored and have a ton of things on my "to-do" list!

I have a wood working shop where I make gifts and crafts to sell in the spring. We also milk a Dexter cow and make cheese and butter.

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I'll propably be making fishing lures; my dad left me his materials and equipment. I'll tie flies, streamers, etc.... Maybe try and sell them in the spring for a few extra bucks.

We go to a lot of estate sales, swaps, garage sales, and flea markets during the nice weather months. I buy all of the antique mantle, kitchen, and shelf clocks I can. I spend most of the winter months repairing and restoring them. Some I sell through a local indoor flea market and some on Ebay. I also do a lot of repair work for other folks. I keep myself entertained and make pretty good money at the same time.

You're talking South Florida here, winter is when the heat and humidity decrease to manageable levels... :haha: Gardening. Backpacking. Canoing.

I like to take a winter trip to see snow, so far I have taken my oldest grandson 3 times. He was SURPRIZED to find out snow is wet... :haha: I would like to attend the ookpik winter survival program at the Northern Tier, Sommers base... :haha:

flea markets, auctions and of course quilting, i find i dont do any sewing in summer, but winter comes and its good for 2-5 quilts, depending on how busy i am , right now making 2 king/queen size ones i had ordered , and then making a neat modern one for my SIL for christmas , probobly in black and yellow, but not sure , it might look like a bumble bee ...
shes a teen and going off to college soon ,i want to make one she will like, but one she will keep .....

then i make one or two more for selling / trading with others , amazing what one can trade a good quilt for i even traded one for a horse one time

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You all are so talented and industrious. We have a basement. When we moved in 15 years ago, all of the odds and ends and misc and sundry ended up down there. Like DH's 5 tons of books. Then he got sick and closed his office and all of that went down there, too. And so did anything else we didn't immediately pitch. So, for the past 2 years the winter "hobby" has been to clear out, throw out, sort, organize, etc. There is now room down there for my plant lights and for a plywood-on-sawhorse work table. That got a lot of use last winter when I packed the space between the house and basement sill with caulk and sheets of styrofoam. This winter promises more of the same. Painting and stuff sure sounds like a lot more fun.