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Something new I’ve taken up in the past five years:
# Response Date Comment
1. Sat, 4/14/07 8:56 PM Starting my own Bed and Breakfast business
2. Mon, 4/16/07 3:31 PM Golf. Poker.
3. Mon, 4/16/07 7:29 PM Volunteering for disaster service with the Red Cross
4. Mon, 4/16/07 11:55 PM see above
5. Tue, 4/17/07 12:36 AM Cooking
6. Tue, 4/17/07 12:39 AM Art. Without any formal training, I begn doing collages after my near-death experience, and have had exhibitions and some sales, as well as lotsd of encouragement.
7. Tue, 4/17/07 12:52 AM Retirement learning classes
8. Tue, 4/17/07 1:04 AM Golf
9. Tue, 4/17/07 1:10 AM Speaking my mind without reservation.
10. Tue, 4/17/07 2:55 AM drawing
11. Tue, 4/17/07 3:33 AM Bridge after 35 years, Mahjongg, exercise on a regular basis
12. Tue, 4/17/07 11:21 AM Competitive bicycle riding
13. Tue, 4/17/07 4:03 PM Street witnessing for Jesus: Having the boldness to ask total strangers the question - Do you know what would happen to you if you died tomorrow? Having the confidence and the knowledge to share Biblical truths with them that could save their souls.
14. Tue, 4/17/07 6:13 PM additional needlework skills, music,
15. Tue, 4/17/07 9:22 PM Slowing down and trying to figure out what's next. I didn't think I'd ever need to do that. Writing and self publishing is becoming fun and energizing.
16. Tue, 4/17/07 10:47 PM Being an advocate for long-term care - educating agencies in the sale of insurance - giving talks to groups - making sure the planning is "on the table" for my baby-boomer clients.
17. Wed, 4/18/07 1:46 AM I know a bit of German "Wir sehen die Sonnenstrahlen durch die Wolken brechen. Some Italian "Abbiamo otto nipotini ed una principessa." And last spring I returned to my Northfield language French. I took French every day at my school with a bunch of eigth graders. Tres fun. I speak excellent pretend French..lots of vocabulary and helping verbs but pitiful grammar. I can say with a beautiful accent: "Nous n'avons JAMAIS vote pour Georges Bush."
18. Wed, 4/18/07 11:13 AM writing for the next generation - stories about ferns, wildflowers, my dog, my mother, my 200 year old doll and her various families through the generations
19. Wed, 4/18/07 2:03 PM Pastels
20. Wed, 4/18/07 5:44 PM Learning my way around a computer in the office
21. Wed, 4/18/07 9:54 PM Increased political engagement
22. Thu, 4/19/07 12:26 AM I do the cryptoquip, daily, as a challenge./
23. Fri, 4/20/07 3:01 PM woodworking
24. Sun, 4/22/07 7:44 PM scuba diving (just got my advanced open water certification; recorder playing (began a fourth recorder, the bass, to add to my soprano, alto, and tenor)
25. Wed, 4/25/07 5:47 PM scuba diving
26. Wed, 4/25/07 7:48 PM Now that I have time (retirement), I am getting back to the crafts that I learned as a girl. It is such a pleasure to create gifts for our grandchildren.
27. Wed, 4/25/07 7:48 PM Kayaking Digital photography
28. Thu, 4/26/07 10:11 PM Massage therapy and Eden energy medicine. (Who says you can't have a new career at 68?)
29. Sat, 4/28/07 12:01 AM learning Japanese Ink Painting
30. Sat, 4/28/07 3:23 PM Pinochle. While not as challenging as bridge, it is a lot of fun and allow for socialinxing with a great group of friends on a regular basis.
31. Thu, 5/3/07 6:39 PM Photography; writing,chemotherapy(!)
32. Fri, 5/4/07 7:30 PM Digital photography. Working out in the gym.
33. Fri, 5/4/07 11:26 PM Watercolor painting, yoga, kayaking
34. Sun, 5/6/07 10:05 AM Reading
35. Sun, 5/6/07 12:02 PM Keen interest in evolutionary development ("evo-devo").
36. Sun, 5/6/07 12:39 PM increased physical activity...Increased knowledge using the computer
37. Sun, 5/6/07 1:38 PM Barbershop singing, working with Habitat
38. Sun, 5/6/07 2:03 PM Systematic study of history and some aspects of sociology
39. Sun, 5/6/07 2:09 PM Helping raise and care for 2 grandchildren who live with us.
40. Sun, 5/6/07 2:33 PM Teaching.
41. Sun, 5/6/07 2:53 PM More traveling
42. Sun, 5/6/07 3:10 PM sudoku Curves
43. Sun, 5/6/07 3:11 PM geneology and digital photo collections for my extended family remodeling our FL condo after hurricane "Charley"
44. Sun, 5/6/07 4:13 PM three day a week gym workout
45. Sun, 5/6/07 4:38 PM Scenic RR crew member- Lebanon Mason Monroe RR in SW Ohio-www.LebanonRR.com
46. Sun, 5/6/07 5:20 PM Computer and internet
47. Sun, 5/6/07 5:21 PM N/A
48. Sun, 5/6/07 5:23 PM After years of being a cat person, now have my first dog. Wonderful!
49. Sun, 5/6/07 7:11 PM American Alligator.I am considered an expert.I am a volunteer naturalist at MyakkaRiver State Park,Florida's largest.
50. Sun, 5/6/07 8:50 PM Swimming daily in the summer and three or four times a week in the winter. Travel to out of the way places.
51. Sun, 5/6/07 9:14 PM Singing
52. Sun, 5/6/07 11:12 PM cat socializing, Yoga
53. Sun, 5/6/07 11:15 PM Surfin' the net.
54. Sun, 5/6/07 11:48 PM STARTING MY OWN BUSINESS
55. Mon, 5/7/07 12:59 AM I've taken up photography and i
56. Mon, 5/7/07 1:22 AM innkeeping
57. Mon, 5/7/07 1:22 AM container gardening
58. Mon, 5/7/07 2:24 AM holding public municipal elected office. chair of various committees related to public office. heading a citizens ad hoc committee on water issues. testifying before state legislative committees.
59. Mon, 5/7/07 2:32 AM Learning Spanish
60. Mon, 5/7/07 3:08 AM refer to questions 36, 37 and 39
61. Mon, 5/7/07 2:59 PM Using the exercise ball
62. Mon, 5/7/07 4:36 PM spider solitaire
63. Mon, 5/7/07 5:38 PM gardening
64. Mon, 5/7/07 6:34 PM Bridge.
65. Mon, 5/7/07 11:14 PM Water aerobics
66. Mon, 5/7/07 11:14 PM I can't remember
67. Tue, 5/8/07 1:40 AM Beekeeping.
68. Tue, 5/8/07 2:12 AM more electronics
69. Tue, 5/8/07 2:34 AM Writing genealogical articles.
70. Tue, 5/8/07 3:32 AM Politics. Water aerobics. Living in Russia. Learning Russian. Publishing a book of poems. Pilates. Writing poetry in traditional forms. Hiking in the Alps. Sailing in the Pacific.
71. Tue, 5/8/07 2:27 PM Piano lessons Grandparenting Volunteering for The National Alliance for the Mentally Ill. Part time research job.
72. Tue, 5/8/07 9:08 PM kayaking
73. Wed, 5/9/07 1:03 AM spinning
74. Wed, 5/9/07 6:31 PM Bicycle trips abroad.
75. Wed, 5/9/07 11:10 PM n/a
76. Thu, 5/10/07 3:09 PM Quilting
77. Thu, 5/10/07 9:21 PM Quilting
78. Fri, 5/11/07 3:02 AM taking lessons to learn how to sweep row and skull, getting back to down hill skiing
79. Fri, 5/11/07 2:07 PM Motorcycling
80. Fri, 5/11/07 4:30 PM Tai Chi and other regular exercise programs. Learning to live in a retirement community and learning how to be a caregiver without killing yourself.
81. Mon, 5/14/07 1:28 AM Trying to learn a bit of Spanish, perhaps enough to make a stab at reading "Don Quixote."
82. Mon, 5/14/07 9:30 PM Flower gardening.
83. Tue, 5/15/07 10:34 PM Making baskets, photography
84. Thu, 5/17/07 5:12 PM lots of walking: the equivalent of Boston to Madison, Wisconsin in three years
85. Fri, 5/18/07 2:12 PM Gardening with kids
86. Sun, 5/20/07 3:54 AM dog training, taichi,
87. Wed, 5/23/07 7:18 PM Painting, swimming (a 'best' exercise for old duffers), spending time with grands.
88. Wed, 5/23/07 7:45 PM Nothing in the last five years.
89. Wed, 5/23/07 8:50 PM adjusting to moving from 2500 feet elevation, to sea level, and to 10,000 feet
90. Wed, 5/23/07 9:30 PM Taiji
91. Wed, 5/23/07 9:32 PM Being the executor of an estate
92. Thu, 5/24/07 12:41 PM new husband
93. Fri, 5/25/07 1:52 AM Interest in the grandchildren
94. Fri, 5/25/07 3:49 AM Photography
95. Fri, 5/25/07 3:42 PM Birding
96. Wed, 6/6/07 11:45 PM Meeting and working with an art historian who is writing my grandfather's biography. He was an important Impressionist artist in his day. Through this I've gotten to know members of my extended family.