Bored stiff and it's cold outside?

By bin there and dunit

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Activies for the Winter time

The challenge is for things to do indoors during the winter. so:
start painting - my 93 year old cousin spends hours in front of the window painting with watercolours. Another cousin, 80 years old is having lessons.

Did you pretend to learn a language at school; some time ago I audited an M.I.T. undergraduate class to improve my Spanish. I have done the same with a different uni for another language.

There is a site on the internet which can get you in touch with quality lessons in just about any subject you can dream up - usually for free. I did one on diet from an Australian Uni.

In person art classes

If you are in the UK and over 50 there is the U3A (University for the Third Age) in your community with many different fields. No experience required and good company.

At school we had a teacher who was worse than useless; dump a sheet of paper and some colours in front of your and "Paint" - it went straight in the bin afterwards, unexamined.
So what I did was take a piece of white paper and a pencil; assuming you are right handed, just draw your left hand. Hard? yes - after twenty tries you are getting somewhere and using your eyes far better. Try an eye, a nose a .......

As you go to sleep daydream and next day do it!

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Leon Lebowitz, RRT Member
Hi again, 'bin there' and thanks for posting this story. We appreciate you lending your own support and encouragement here. We also appreciate you sharing the various activities your family (cousins) have started doing as well as your own individual efforts at learning. These are all great idea and activities to stay busy during the cold winter months. All are designed for indoor activity - what an advantage!! Once again, thanks so much for posting this in our 'stories' section. Wishing you well, Leon (site moderator <a href='https://copd.net' target='_blank'>COPD.net</a>)
kloker Member
Interesting! It's been in the upper seventies here and will be 81 here today, so there's that. But I am confined indoors anyway, with a poop-storm of the covid omicron variant loading up area hospitals, and the fact that one can only have so long a length of oxygen hose (my new POC still has not arrived yet). So, it's a hostile environment out there for me. But I also have a new project! I am learning how to rebind a Bible. I've recently been made aware that this is a thing by my neighbor, who, upon learning about my leatherworking, asked me to see if I could rebind his extremely well-worn and abused-looking Bible. He has other ones, and certainly ones in better condition, but this one is his favorite, so here goes. It's a fascinating thing, bookbinding, and especially with Bibles, as most are softbound rather than hardcover, and the process is quite involved. But I am up to the challenge, I think, so I'm on it. Busy gathering up supplies and seeing what new tools I need at the workbench. Luckily, there is a lot of information available so I can learn how. The plan is to remove the old cover, which is decades old, with only the rear cover and part of the spine left (in tatters), clean and repair the main block, replace with new end sheets and liner sheets, and make a beautiful new custom cover out of black goatskin, repairing the book so that it will last the rest of his life. I like to do things right, so I'm learning the whole process from scratch. Once I've done it, the skill is one I can easily use to create a new side hustle, as there is a market out there for it, and I can use the income. Since I can no longer do woodworking or ride motorcycles or any of my other hobbies, I can do this. I think. Some things are too hard, like the leather steering wheel cover I made for my F250. I got it done, but never again! It was just too hard. We'll see how this turns out. I will report back on this when done. I think it is much more doable.