What's your favorite way to unwind or relax?

My wife's talent is to make her own, (and very often mine,) clothes. We have also been lifelong fans of dancing, as in, Latin & Ballroom. The lady's dress making skills proved most fortuitous when, dance finery was the attire.
Sadly our dancing has been curtailed following the heart surgery that my lady had. But she still manages to enjoy her dressmaking and I engage with Jessica, a name my wife gave our old, (very old) car.
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The car is great fun, as is dressing the in the era when the car was new.
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When I was about eleven years old I was taught how to write in Italic script.
It's something that I still do. The advent of e-mail has curtailed much of what
was once, the written word. So much so that a letter, even a letter
expressing annoyance, always gets a reply and more often than not,
a complimentary remark. I am often asked to fill in the details in photo albums.
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Music from the swing era sounds even better
out of the speakers of my own Wurlitzter.
 

It takes me a long time to get to sleep. I do crossword puzzles, watch home fixit shows, the recorded monologs of late night comedians and finally I read for about 15 minutes.
During the day it might be taking a drive to do a small errand. A glass of wine at dinner. A quiet time on the porch. It used to be painting but for now that is a chore.
 
My most important thing is to sit on the bench at the barn after night feeding to hear the silence, smell the air, look at the sky and be thankful I get to do that.

All the better if the horses are still in the barn munching hay.

When I get in the house and get the dogs settled, it’s Jammie, tv, & internet time since I can no longer concentrate on one thing at a time.
 
Paco Dennis said:
Music is universal isn't it? I see you are in the Bay Area, Ca. I grew up in the 50's and 60's in Cupertino. It kind of went crazy after I
left. :) Where are you at?
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At my age of 4, we lived in a brand new Eichler home on Permanente Road in Cupertino that is the street extension west of Steven's Creek Boulevard below the cement factory in the hills that my dad bought new for about $8000. In those days the valley had miles of apricot orchards. Went to kindergarten there but then in first grade, we moved to the Sacramento area.

As for unwinding, rarely need to since retiring since every day I wake up is Saturday where the government pays me to do...nothing.
But yes sometimes I do get burned out after major adventures with long multi-hour return drives. If so, a long hot shower, some snacks, and then a nap whatever time of day does it.
 
David777 said:
At my age of 4, we lived in a brand new Eichler home on Permanente Road in Cupertino that is the street extension west of Steven's Creek Boulevard below the cement factory in the hills that my dad bought new for about $8000. In those days the valley had miles of apricot orchards. Went to kindergarten there but then in first grade, we moved to the Sacramento area.

As for unwinding, rarely need to since retiring since every day I wake up is Saturday where the government pays me to do...nothing.
But yes sometimes I do get burned out after major adventures with long multi-hour return drives. If so, a long hot shower, some snacks, and then a nap whatever time of day does it.
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I had a good friend who lived up that way. :) I loved it there. Steven's Creek Dam was right up the road.
 
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