Starting A Nature-based Hobby Prints

"We should get out to the country more often."

Bitchbark Canoe

"First time pruning?"

"I would like a tube of lemon yellow, cadmium red, cobalt blue, ivory, black, and zinc white, a sixteen-by-twenty canvas, a couple of brushes, and that book 'Painting in Oils'."

The Hobby Store

"He built his own airplane from a kit."

"River well stocked this year."

"Trail mix?"

'I don't know what he gets up to in there, but it keeps him busy.' (Noises are recorded, man reads paper, has beer.)

"Is this the first time you've been fishing?"

"Our Rupert has swopped his gaming console for bagpipes...it gets us out of the house more often."

Gardening Calendar: January - The Snow will be deep now...get out into the garden...

'Tommy is in the other room playing with the triangle we bought him in Bermuda.'

'My first camera'

"Oh we're fine, my husbands just learning to cook during the quarantine."

'First of all, relax.'

'Dude, you can go for that new diving gear if you want, but if you ask me, I think it's a trap.'

Patey's in a band! He's so cool!

"You do have your own way of enjoying the garden, don't you?"

Model Building

'Would you like some of our house wine? I just made it.'

"What do you mean, it's not an educational toy? I'd have to learn to ride it!"

I bake my own bread.

Burt was a true artist and conservationist. He recycled his beer cans...Making an ornate garden wall and rockery.

"Ooh, another unsuspecting victim."

The Gardener's Calendar: Get Your Mower Out of The Shed.

'... So I said to Dave; 'You're not going to wear that baggy old thing are you?' But, he decided to come nude anyway.'

'I don't actually want to learn so much that I become a wine buff - just a wine snob!'

"You may not know this, but I've become quite the wine expert."

"Frankly, I don't really want him to improve: he scares the predators away..."

Pam collected ceramic pigs. Just one so far, but even that seemed like too many.

She found baking helped enormously.

'It's my first attempt at gardening but so far I've learned...'

Old man with zimmer frame waters tree being supported by a walking stick.

"O.K., go long, and then go about a hundred feet to your left or your right - who knows?"