what i mean hobbies do you enjoy
uh well lets see i suppose i could say i enjoy joy crocheting
um
gardening knitting
uh
hiking
do you have a lot of spare time to do it in or is it something you kind of have to make time for
well it seems like i don't have time for them but i'm i don't work full-time or anything
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i sell Avon and Stanley products
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but it's that's not
you know the same as an eight hour job
well it can't from what i've heard understood it can can be
yeah it's it's up to the person
sometimes
yeah well i i enjoy needlepoint although boy i guess i got myself burned out i did too much too fast and
uh uh-huh
for some reason my eyes aren't quite what they used to be either
oh
and um
you sound young
yeah yeah i am but i i don't know it's just
maybe it's the light but
uh-huh
and um
i enjoy photography as a hobby
oh good
and boating and horseback riding although i'm recovering from back surgery so it's going to be awhile before i can do either one of those
uh-huh
um
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and bowling and right now my biggest hobby i guess since um you know recovering is
watching television and playing Nintendo with my son
yeah that could be a little boring sometimes i guess too but
and i do enjoy reading
uh-huh
um i do read a lot read quite a lot
uh-huh
uh i enjoy reading different types of things
uh-huh
i enjoy reading novels
then uh you know
more serious stuff
how how old is your little
boy
today is his birthday yeah yeah
oh is it really
oh how old
six
oh that's nice
my baby's expecting her first baby this month say yes
oh really oh how exciting that could it's always
so our children our children are all grown up
do they live close by
just one of them
the one that's going to have the baby well that's good you that will be your new hobby then taking care of grandbaby
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yeah
um my sister's going to have a baby this summer
uh-huh
so but i guess that's a little off the subject
yeah
i don't know i've tried various things i've tried to get interested in things like refinishing furniture woodworking or um ceramics but it just seems like
it's so expensive to break into something new
um
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that um you know with my i've got quite enough of an investment in my photography equipment
yeah
that
we we had for a while done uh well we still do a lot of picture taking in that and uh we're in the process of putting our eight millimeter
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uh films and now the kids and i were going to put them on video
oh yeah
and we're we're in the process of doing that right now and
are you doing that yourself
yeah
how do you do it
uh we bought the equipment
uh that you do it with
you don't have to
i mean is the something that you don't have to see it as you it's not like your
well the you buy this little little piece of equipment and you use your video camera of course and uh your projector
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oh okay that's what i wondered
and the combination you the way you connect you know connect them up
do they make good quality copies do you think
uh i think it's going to we were a little worried there was a lot of background noise on it but uh
we can hook it into our uh stereo system after we get the pictures all done
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we can hook it into our uh a video or uh stereo system and uh put music
to the film and that will cut out all the background the noise of the uh recorder running and that
yeah
oh
well that's nice
because the projector made a lot makes a lot of noise
yeah i remember those we've never had one my parents never had one but um
yeah
and uh so that's been kind and our darkroom is very we have a darkroom but it's very dusty
oh
that's my dream i guess is to have my own darkroom
we we're real active in it for a long time but you know you get busy and
yeah um
the kids grow up and
they're expensive to maintain just the chemicals are expensive
yeah
we mainly just did a bit of black and white it's
yeah i would still like black and white
uh-huh
to me black and white is photography color is more snapshot
oh you can really get some good really good pictures in black and white
yeah you really can people don't realize that
that
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not realize that black and white it nowadays it's actually more expensive than uh color
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it's hard to even find film or anything
yeah
yeah
but uh
and i well i used to i learned how to knit when i was little my grandmother knitted a lot
uh-huh
and she knitted all the time
did she
and uh before she passed away and made some beautiful things but i've never really learned how to do more than the basic
oh that's great
yeah
yeah i don't do a whole it uh time seems to be hard to find for anything you want to do i don't know why
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you
yeah i know
you'd think i'd have a lot of time but
yeah you'd think i would too but you know
but i i i'm knitting an afghan for the baby and i haven't worked on this for several weeks i just haven't got back to it
um
when's the baby due
the twenty ninth
time to get busy do you know if it's going to be a boy or a girl
i don't know
i don't know
they don't really care what they have
is it her first one
yeah yeah they didn't want to know so uh
well
but but i do enjoy it i i i enjoy painting some too but i
i really really have trouble finding time i did did some toll painting for a while and i started doing a still life and it's it never got finished
yeah
that's something i've
it's interesting to me people who watch people who are that know how to paint i just felt like that's something i've never been very good at or very good at drawing or anything
well had have you watched any of these things on TV these large brush
i've watched uh i've yeah here and there but they make it look uh i i know that
you know they just make it look so easy but i know it i'm smart enough to know that it's not quite that easy
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well once you start it apparently it's not bad some of the girls have gone into the call age group Claritin University is just not too far from here
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they've gone in and uh done a class on the large brush and actually did the painting
yeah
and you know they've never done anything
and they come out pretty nice
yeah i've yeah and i know a girl that used to do it and hers did too but i just don't think see myself whipping out masterpieces in thirty minutes
like they do on the shows
do you enjoy cooking
yeah i like to cook
i like to cook but i've really gotten away from it it's with just two my son and myself it's just not
yeah i don't do a lot of fancy cooking
to me it's just
he you know i hate you know hate to admit this but we live on frozen food
well it depends on what it is uh you know well now we i we garden have a small garden and i can i do canning
yeah they have
and uh
yeah i like gardening that's of course that's something i can't do with my back
uh yeah
and uh my back
that's too bad was it lower back or
yeah
my dad's grew up on a farm and he always had gardens and we always had fresh vegetables which i just really like and
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yeah that's one thing that our gardening we're getting it my husband he's retired but he's having
trouble now and he's not not allowed to mow the grass we have a lot of grass takes me about four hours to do our lawn
um
oh you have to do it oh gosh
and uh and you know he's really shouldn't run the
um
and things like that so it makes it a little bit
difficult but i i do love to garden my kids loved it because i never allowed anybody in my garden that didn't like to do it
i didn't want anybody in my garden i was a grump
do you garden vegetables or flowers or both or mostly vegetables
yeah mostly vegetables i had grew some flowers but mostly vegetables
yeah there's nothing like fresh vegetables picked out of the garden
yeah yeah uh
but
well it's been nice talking to you
yes well i hope you have a nice birthday today for your son
well you too
well he's having his party until Friday but
uh-huh uh-huh
he knows today today after the little something today because he knows it's his birthday to make it special but
uh-huh
yeah yeah
well you have a nice day okay bye-bye
okay you too and thanks a lot
bye-bye
