Feels like all husband and I do is work on the house or the yard and do a lot of chores. We need some fun! We live in a pretty big town, but even still, things we haven't done yet tends to be expensive. We've seen all the museums. We've eaten out, boring and expensive. Movies... expensive and we don't like the crowd or the possibility of picking up bedbugs while there (unless that was just the news station fear mongering)
The festivals will start up soon, those are fun. But the majority of stuff around here is a retail setting or something we've done a lot. We owe the Zoo and Botanical Garden a visit, haven't been in a long time.
We bought bikes, but it's been raining A LOT. Limiting our yard work time, and fun time.
I took up oil painting, but that doesn't include husband. He took up furniture refinishing, and turned out an amazing Oak dresser that was shabby and painted over like 15 times. We gave $40 for it at an Antique mall and now, it would likely be worth $150 in today's market. ($350 some 15 years ago, too bad!) so we need to get him another piece to work on.
But as far as things to do... 'What do you want to do today?" "I dunno, we need to go grocery shopping" "Ok, let's go"..... fun fun.
We're spoiled though, we lived in Germany and all you had to do was hop on a bus or train and you were entertained for hours without actually having a destination. But we moved back to where we were born... and we have all this free time now, in a city where we've seen most everything... it sucks!
We're talking about buying land and what all we would do with it... just means more work. LOL Board games and card games we've exhausted.
What the heck can we do with ourselves?
The things on the list so far...
One day at the Zoo
One day at the Botanical Gardens
One day at the Conservatory
One day at the "castle" up north
Periodic bike trips
Home "fun" hobbies for each of us
Festivals and Fairs
Flea Markets
Fishing (need to sort the gear out and get licenses)
Camping (requires some cash to escape from the city, no cool camping near by like when we lived down south by Land Between The Lakes)
I was thinking about showing one of my rabbits and maybe some ducks. I don't even know how that works though as a grown up. Not like I have kids to tote around while they do it with 4-H or something.
Already taught the dogs to run next to the bike. So sometimes they go on bike rides with us.
Last year we went to the Smoky Mountains and had a blast. SO FUN, but pricey. Not something we can do every weekend.
But husband is basically "retired" at 28 years old from the Army and will soon be on a college schedule. He's finally decided on Electrical Engineering, so we'll have YEARS of hanging out when he's not busy with school.
After he got hurt over seas, all we've done is worry and stress and plan, then work and worry, and now that everything is situated and things are planned, we need some flip'n FUN. We've been goofing off a lot and remembered how to "play"... but we need to get out of the house more. Making poop jokes while digging out the compost pile for the garden is fine and all, but geeze. Yesterdays fun was burning a stick pile in fine rain, and watching documentaries that made me mad at society. LOL
The festivals will start up soon, those are fun. But the majority of stuff around here is a retail setting or something we've done a lot. We owe the Zoo and Botanical Garden a visit, haven't been in a long time.
We bought bikes, but it's been raining A LOT. Limiting our yard work time, and fun time.
I took up oil painting, but that doesn't include husband. He took up furniture refinishing, and turned out an amazing Oak dresser that was shabby and painted over like 15 times. We gave $40 for it at an Antique mall and now, it would likely be worth $150 in today's market. ($350 some 15 years ago, too bad!) so we need to get him another piece to work on.
But as far as things to do... 'What do you want to do today?" "I dunno, we need to go grocery shopping" "Ok, let's go"..... fun fun.
We're spoiled though, we lived in Germany and all you had to do was hop on a bus or train and you were entertained for hours without actually having a destination. But we moved back to where we were born... and we have all this free time now, in a city where we've seen most everything... it sucks!
We're talking about buying land and what all we would do with it... just means more work. LOL Board games and card games we've exhausted.
What the heck can we do with ourselves?
The things on the list so far...
One day at the Zoo
One day at the Botanical Gardens
One day at the Conservatory
One day at the "castle" up north
Periodic bike trips
Home "fun" hobbies for each of us
Festivals and Fairs
Flea Markets
Fishing (need to sort the gear out and get licenses)
Camping (requires some cash to escape from the city, no cool camping near by like when we lived down south by Land Between The Lakes)
I was thinking about showing one of my rabbits and maybe some ducks. I don't even know how that works though as a grown up. Not like I have kids to tote around while they do it with 4-H or something.
Already taught the dogs to run next to the bike. So sometimes they go on bike rides with us.
Last year we went to the Smoky Mountains and had a blast. SO FUN, but pricey. Not something we can do every weekend.
But husband is basically "retired" at 28 years old from the Army and will soon be on a college schedule. He's finally decided on Electrical Engineering, so we'll have YEARS of hanging out when he's not busy with school.
After he got hurt over seas, all we've done is worry and stress and plan, then work and worry, and now that everything is situated and things are planned, we need some flip'n FUN. We've been goofing off a lot and remembered how to "play"... but we need to get out of the house more. Making poop jokes while digging out the compost pile for the garden is fine and all, but geeze. Yesterdays fun was burning a stick pile in fine rain, and watching documentaries that made me mad at society. LOL
