Dad's Hobbies
For all those out there about to retire- my dad's various hobbies may be of interest, in case your worried of becoming board.
1. every week dad goes to the local library and borrows 4-5 'New scientist' Mags, - which I think he read all at least twice so he now also get a mix of new scientist, scientific American and scientific Australia.
2. Dad fixes everything around the house (you might want to be and ex-electrical engineer for this one- I'd end up blowing myself up!), don't remember us ever calling in a handy man or anyone to fix anything. And if there is nothing to fix he will figure out ways to improve things or just make some thing that he thinks we need- example- why buy a green house to grow vegies (mostly tomatos) when you can just make one out of an old swing set frame and some clear plastic.
3. Colecting free wood for our open fire- the wood pile out the back used to be the size of a small house and we got complaints about it being a fire hazard, so dad has stoped for a while and the pile is now the size (both horizontaly and vertically) of my beedroom.
4. AT the moment in our area it is throw out time and dads loving it. As soon as I got home this arvo he proudly showed off a painting he found of what he thinks is 'blue poles' by pollic. He knows its a copy but for what ever reason he felt he should pick it up and is now donating to an op. shop. But the number of broken things that have come home in the last few weeks from both my parents is quite amusing and this isn't the first time. All of our 5 toasters where once on the natures strip and dad fixed them, about 4 lamps, etc.
And Balnarring is completely decked out in ex-natures strip finds, op. shop stuff and stuff dad has created out of scraps.
So now I'm going for a drive around to find mum a nice mothers day pressie scince there are so many just lying around.
1. every week dad goes to the local library and borrows 4-5 'New scientist' Mags, - which I think he read all at least twice so he now also get a mix of new scientist, scientific American and scientific Australia.
2. Dad fixes everything around the house (you might want to be and ex-electrical engineer for this one- I'd end up blowing myself up!), don't remember us ever calling in a handy man or anyone to fix anything. And if there is nothing to fix he will figure out ways to improve things or just make some thing that he thinks we need- example- why buy a green house to grow vegies (mostly tomatos) when you can just make one out of an old swing set frame and some clear plastic.
3. Colecting free wood for our open fire- the wood pile out the back used to be the size of a small house and we got complaints about it being a fire hazard, so dad has stoped for a while and the pile is now the size (both horizontaly and vertically) of my beedroom.
4. AT the moment in our area it is throw out time and dads loving it. As soon as I got home this arvo he proudly showed off a painting he found of what he thinks is 'blue poles' by pollic. He knows its a copy but for what ever reason he felt he should pick it up and is now donating to an op. shop. But the number of broken things that have come home in the last few weeks from both my parents is quite amusing and this isn't the first time. All of our 5 toasters where once on the natures strip and dad fixed them, about 4 lamps, etc.
And Balnarring is completely decked out in ex-natures strip finds, op. shop stuff and stuff dad has created out of scraps.
So now I'm going for a drive around to find mum a nice mothers day pressie scince there are so many just lying around.
posted by Mim @ 5:58 PM
1 Comments:
At 9:47 AM,
Anonymous said…
sure johney gibson, sure
haha hey mim, your family sounds awesome! it reminds me of the bailey family!! :P
catchya
mase.
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