My auto high school shop teacher once professed to not having enough time for all of his hobbies and interests and I'm afraid that this is where I've grown into. I don't have all the time in the day with kids growing up and needing to learn how to swing the bat or read and write or just learn to use the potty.
But I also need challenges and have stayed with one hobby or another long enough to get what I want out of it and then move on to another. Often times never being able to come back to it. For example, I use to sail, once belonged to a sailing club and got good enough to give sailing lessons and did on the San Francisco Bay for a couple of years. But I'll never go back to sailing because of all the maintenance needed to keep up the boat and because your neck, shoulders and back tire from holding the tiller for long periods of time while steering. I can't hold the tiller any more.
For several years I've been trying to recreate an old English dinner with prime rib and Yorkshire pudding et al., have succeeded with these two but can't get the cream spinach down. Not enough bacon fat, I think.
I've always done a lot of automotive and house work, my Dad insisted, and since the good weather's back I'll have to move on and start in on some house projects. Kitchen cabinets are up next.
Reading is another example of not being able to find the time in the day. The exception to this might be the 'Wheel of Time' series of SCI FI books which has kept me going for about a decade now. Until the author's last book that is. Which was a huge disappointment?
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