Our Hobbies
“Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other.” - Walter Lippmann
Our Hobbies
We just need more time!
Other than raising the herd of Chihuahua's, we are quite busy with other activities like chasing the grandchildren! We though that once retired we would have time for everything! Phooey, we are so busy we are gone 15 hours a day.
Sue has recently gotten into oil painting and playing the folk harp! She also collects dolls with an emphasis on Muffy Vanderbear and her friend Hoppy!
Paul keeps busy playing with the computer, collecting 30's/40's music, and attempting to keep everything around the house in repair.
Ballroom Dancing Keeps Us Busy!
We love dancing!
We ballroom dance all the time and have been taking lessons locally for 20+ years!!
We go on Monday's for some specialized dancing and Friday's and dance for and hour or two taking the advanced class.
We have completed classes in the West Coast Swing and the Texas Two Step.
We dance at Disneyland every other week in the Carnation Plaza. Three sets (45 minute dance periods with 15 minute break) and we are ready to head for Catal at Downtown Disney and then to home.
Carnation
Plaza In Disneyland!
Traveling The Seven Seas
We cruise whenever we can. We pick the ship by the
dancing facilities and capabilities and the destination is secondary! Most of the time we select
the Crystal Cruises but recently we have moved towards Princess Lines as retirement modifies ones life styles.
Visit our vacations homepage. We have gone to New Zealand to Australia, crossed the Atlantic several times, been to Iceland, South Pacific and the Panama Canal and Alaska. so we can complete our around the world target.... a few miles a time! We have been on about 35 cruises and plan to keep going.
Vegetable Gardening
Raising vegetables is a hoot! - We raise
vegetables in our front and back yard because it is interesting, fun,
and keeps us away from the TV!!!!! We raise artichokes, peas, beans,
tomatoes, squash's), strawberries, lettuce, peppers, tomatillos, etc.
We are now planted for this season... Great thing about California, we can have tomatoes in November! We just added 1700 Sq Feet of garden in the back yard and even have grapes running along side the walls!
Muffy (Vanderbear) Bears
Sue's collects and otherwise takes care of her Muffy Vanderbear family! They change clothes every month into their "outfit-of-the-month". Muffy and her mom and dad currently live with us!
Cooking Is A great Joint Activity!
And . . .Sue's
is the cook!! She loves to invent... seldom uses a receipt... just
seems to "float to the frig... starts pulling things out... and voila'...
meal fit for a king!
But guess what??????
Paul is learning to cook
after 60 years on this planet.
Take a look at vegetable burritos! Other specialities are Stuffed Anaheim peppers, Garlic soup, Onion/Zucchini gratin, Corn Chowder with Golden Chiles, and Beet and Red Onion Soup! A favorite is Eggplants & Cassaroles.
Golf, A Most Challenging Sport!
We play three or four times a week at our country club and as of this date, Paul has yet to "beat" Sue in a game of golf!
We
both shoot in the 90's (Paul high; Sue low).
Most recently our vacations must have golf built into them so we spend a fair amount of time in Hawaii and Mexico.
What Is A Hobby?
Hobbies are practiced for interest and enjoyment, rather than
financial reward. Examples include collecting, creative and artistic
pursuits, making, tinkering, sports and adult education. Engaging in a
hobby can lead to acquiring substantial skill, knowledge, and
experience. However, personal fulfillment is the aim.
What are hobbies for some people are professions for others: a chef may
enjoy cooking as a hobby, while a professional game tester might enjoy
playing (and helping to debug) computer games. Generally speaking, the
person who does something for fun, not remuneration, is called an
amateur (or hobbyist), as distinct from a professional.
An important determinant of what is considered a hobby, as distinct from
a profession (beyond the lack of remuneration), is probably how easy it
is to make a living at the activity. Almost no one can make a living at
cigarette card or stamp collecting, but many people find it enjoyable;
so it is commonly regarded as a hobby.
Crystal Harmony
The Crystal Harmony was retired from the Crystal fleet in 2005. It was transferred to the parent company, underwent some renovations, renamed the Asuka II, and now caters to the Japanese cruise market as part of Asuka Cruises.
Cruising
Cruising by boat is a lifestyle that involves living for extended time on a boat while traveling from place to place for pleasure. Cruising generally refers to trips of a few days or more, and can extend to round-the-world voyages.
Cruising is done on both sail and power boats, although sail predominates over longer distances, as ocean-worthy power boats are considerably more expensive.
Many cruisers are "long term" and travel for many years, the most adventurous circling the globe over a period of three to ten years.
Many others take a year or two off from work and school for short trips and the chance to experience the cruising lifestyle.
Gardening
A vegetable garden (also known as a vegetable patch or vegetable plot) is a garden that exists to grow vegetables and other plants useful for human consumption, in contrast to a flower garden that exists for aesthetic purposes. It is a small-scale form of vegetable growing.
A vegetable garden typically includes a compost heap and several plots or divided areas of land, intended to grow one or two types of plant in each plot.
Many families have home kitchen and vegetable gardens that
they use to make food. In World War II, people had gardens called
'Victory Gardens' which provided food to families and thus freed up
resources for the war effort.
With the increased interest in organic and sustainable living, many
people are turning to vegetable gardening as a supplement to their
family's diet. Food is grown in your own backyard, uses up little if any
fuel for shipping, and the grower can be sure of what exactly was used
to grow it.
Cooking
Cooking is the act of preparing food for eating by the application of heat.
It encompasses a vast range of methods, tools and combinations of ingredients to alter the flavor or digestibility of food.
It is the process of selecting, measuring and combining of ingredients in an ordered procedure in an effort to achieve the desired result.
Factors affecting the final outcome include the variability of ingredients, ambient conditions, tools, and the skill of the individual doing the actual cooking.
Golf
Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams of players strike a ball into a hole using several types of clubs.
Golf is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed, standardized playing field or area; defined in the Rules of Golf as "playing a ball with a club from the teeing ground into the hole by a stroke or successive strokes in accordance with the Rules."
On The Go!
We go on "road trips" just to see the country... Please join us for some fun and adventures.