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Some really wonderful toys have been shared on here. Great thread!
My favorites are my golf cart, which we use to drive around our small beach town and take to the ocean. We could walk to the beach - only about a block or two, but it's much more fun to take our golf cart and not have to carry our beach chairs, etc. and our dogs love to run along side and they get way more exercise than would be possible from just us taking them for a walk. It's very safe to do this where we live - hardly any car traffic at all. We can also ride the golf cart to the library and a few stores and the farm market that is close by.
I don't think this would be considered to be a toy, but I do love my Bluebird House and watching the birds build their nests and take care of those sweet little babies. And I love having my bird feeders and watching all the birds that come to eat.
And last, but not least, my decks of playing cards. We hadn't played cards in years, but lately, we've been playing Hearts several times a week with some good friends and we always have so much fun. We started out playing on Friday evenings, but had so much fun that now we play about 2 or 3 times a week. We take turns making dinner and sometimes order out for food, depending on what we want to eat, if we feel like cooking, etc. Sometimes, we also hang out in our hot tub for a while, too. We always do it at our house, because we don't want to leave our dogs home alone all evening and we wouldn't impose on our friends by taking the dogs to their house and our house is bigger and we're the ones who have a hot tub. Our friends are fine with doing it this way, so it works out perfectly for all of us. In fact, we are doing it tonight and having BLT's for dinner. Yum!
We have many hobbies varied with the seasons, and can only play with some of our favorite 'toys' in the right season or weather.
- sculling shells (all year on the Snake River & kayaks, paddle boards in warmer seasons).
- single-engine plane (on good weather days)
- binoculars & spotting scope (birding year around)
- cameras (several generations of Panasonic Lumix DC-GH systems).
- garden tools (STIHL KombiSystem, loppers, pick axe, ProHoe Hoe 70HR, post digging tools, shovels, rakes, hand saw, chain saw etc). These tools are used almost year around on our new property. There are so many hedges and trees to trim, remove and replace. It took several months to weed, remove rocks, rebuilt and expand the flower gardens. It is looking great this year. Irises, roses, dianthus, alliums and peonies are in bloom. Roses and lavenders are ready to bloom anytime now. All the annual flower seeds have germinated and I will have hundreds of flower plants of all different sizes and colors through summer and fall. Setting up a small backyard vineyard have consumed most of our time in the last 3 weeks! We love beet tops and pickled beets. This year, I started about 50 plants and will need to relocate the existing raised bed garden frames to a sunny location before transplanting them. I bought at least 40 plants/trees from the Boise native plants sale 2 weeks ago (in addition to 50+ small sage brushes) and will need to prepare the soil and plant them.
- cooking tools (the induction cooktop and toaster oven are used daily). We still have cherries and apples from last year harvest in the freezer for jams and pies. We are adding a peach tree, an apricot tree and a pear tree to our mini orchard. The existing peach tree bears tons of fruits this year so I expect to do a lot of canning this fall.
- electronic gadgets (iphones, ipads, laptops, desktops - I just put together a powerful high-end server for my husband to edit 4k videos).
There are so many things to play with and only 24 hours in a day!
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