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Favorite thing to do when you can't garden

21 years ago

I am just curious as to what activities you all enjoy when you can't--due to weather or injury or what have you--garden. Do you have another "obsession" or are you faithful only to gardening?

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Dswan
21 years ago
Reading, reading, reading, watching football, reading, watching basketball, reading gardening books and catalogues, more reading.
panama
21 years ago
Cuddling up to the wife and well you know
Not enough energy left during gardening season to fulfill the wifes needs LOL

.Panama
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Nigella
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Browsing plant catalogs, playing on GW, going to Jigzonecolor> and working the puzzles, reading gardening books and plant books, talking about plants with my friends. I'm only mildly obsessed!
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Reading garden books/magazines, redecorating the house :)
Bill_zone6
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heartofdixie
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Violet_Girl
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Wendy_the_Pooh
20 years ago
Scottish Country Dancing.
ankraras
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quiltguy154
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As if you had to guess-QUILTMAKING!
mrsjilly
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watching my garden grow.
rebow
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eliza_ann
20 years ago
Reading,homedecorating,knitting,sewing,walking and cooking.
But my fav is still gardening.
ocbird
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Reading garden and "shelter" magazines and books, rearranging the furniture, turning bird houses into tiki huts, looking for rocks at the beach, and eating fish tacos.
weaserbug
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jakkom
20 years ago
Reading! Which I have lots of time for, now that I've been laid off since last November. Well, maybe not as much as I would want, since now it falls to me instead of DH to do all the stuff around the house. There's been a lot of 'finish up' work to do after the most recent remodeling. It is great fun to crawl around the floor taping and painting moldings, for example -- NOT!!

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bronwynspetalpatch
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Hi all... Im recently addicted to GardenWeb! :O) after a day of gardening, I take a fresh shower and check out the site, cuddle with my doggies on the couch for an hour while I watch the news, browsing garden books and magazines... Thrift stores to browse and find goodies, at night in bed, I prop up with magazines on one side, needlwork bag on the other side.. doggies at my feet of course. I love my kayak.. will wheel that down to the beach and 'play' for hours. I begrudgingly do housework and always have a home improvement project going like painting my railings (did that yesterday) busy, busy, busy! But somehow spend way too much time here at GW :O) (avioding housework!)
skrip
20 years ago
If it's a friday or saturday, go out dancing/drinking for the night, or just hang out with buddies. At home I'd play on the computer for a while. Maybe workout alot more.
emmi331
20 years ago
I love to read, and during winter I do a lot of it! I also do Double-Crostics, a literary and fascinating type of crossword puzzle (I do them surrounded by reference books!).
And of course, the good old Web - favorite site is Clarkhoward.com, a consumer website with interesting forums.
amf55nj
20 years ago
Birding, if I can get away from home for a few hours. Reading, listening to music, working on craft projects, and nature photography. Baking for my friends for the holidays.
piznivy
20 years ago
Feeding the birds in the winter, poring over the latest seed catalogs, ebay, and planning garden improvements for the next season.
ingami
20 years ago
Thinking about gardening, ordering seeds, looking at
gardening catalogs, books, magazines, LOL
Also read a LOT, year round, can't do without it!
Working- yes, working! I love my two part time jobs,
I'm very fortunate---
Of course, one other job I do for 6 weeks a year is at
a greenhouse!
Also, of course, and #1, is spending time with DH and kids,
doing stuff outside with them in the summer, camping,
visiting, walking around the farm, playing with the
animals, being on GW of course! computer stuff-

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