When was the last time you did something new ?

Pickleball ! Someone had posted about it here about a month ago (sorry but I forgot who) and it peaked my interest. I have a friend who has been playing for a few years now so she agreed to show me the basics a couple of weeks ago. Of course she kicked my behind but I had a lot of fun and plan to keep up with it.

Edit-I just searched and it was Ronni who had made the post so thank you Ronni !
 

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Both my kids are into making Kombucha drinks, which seems to be a craze right now. So for the last few months I have been indulging in their creative recipes.

I eat a very clean diet so typically don't worry myself with the latest nutritional trends and would never have purchased Kombucha drinks from the store, but now that I have tried it I discovered I like it.

It's a little thing but it is something new I have tried.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
I guess I'm officially an old fuddy duddy. I can't think of anything I recently did that was something new.
The only thing was, at times, I like a peanut butter sandwich, and I changed from 'smooth' to 'chunky' peanut butter.
Yes, that's life in the fast lane, but you only live once.
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It all counts as something new. It's when you're not prepared to step out of your lane , even for a short time, is when you become old
 
hollydolly said:
Frank was that the actual last time you did something new ?.. c'mon you must have done something new since than..surely.. even small...:D
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It isn't that small...or, so I'm told. ;)

Well, there's the foster-parent license, but that was back in 2019 .... OH! I bought a house for the first time ever. Think it's been about a year ago now.

Other than that, pretty much the same ol' stuff, I guess.
 
Something else new to me is metal detecting. Purchased a detector two weeks ago and have been practicing around my house, so far I have found old metal farm stuff and little trashy bits of metal, sadly no gold or silver.(sigh)

Twenty five or so years ago my kids took their Furby toys (remember them?) and buried them in the woods behind our house because they were "freaking us out". My goal with my new detector is to find the Furbies old decayed bodies and return them to my children. Sounds like a horror movie right?
 
One thing with the last couple weeks is learning to set up & use bookkeeping software called QuickBooks. I got it to manage member data & money/payouts for our river conservation/restoration group.

I think maybe one of the biggest "new things" I ever learned was to drive a dogsled that someone had brought from the 'way north' down to my region. There was a good layer of snow on the ground. I thought this'll go well, because the owner will hold the reins in front of me while I get my first ride... like someone sitting behind the motorcycle rider. Nooo... He stuck the reins in my hands and off the dogs went!
 
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I set up my new printer and connected it to my computer which doesn't use Windows so it is a learn as I go thing. I still was not able to use the scan option. Finally after watching YT videos and reading on different websites...... I got it to work! Works perfectly now and I am using it almost daily.
 
JBR said:
One thing with the last couple weeks is learning to set up & use bookkeeping software called QuciBooks. I got it to manage member data & money/payouts for our river conservation/restoration group.

I think maybe one of the biggest "new things" I ever learned was to drive a dogsled that someone had brought from the 'way north' down to my region. There was a good layer of snow on the ground. I thought this'll go well, because the owner will hold the reins in front of me while I get my first ride... like someone sitting behind the motorcycle rider. Nooo... He stuck the reins in my hands and off the dogs went!
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wow! what a ride, I'd have loved that. Not the same but a tiny feel of what you experienced was when we had the stronger dog in our pack pull our scooters downhill for exercise .. years ago...

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C50 said:
Something else new to me is metal detecting. Purchased a detector two weeks ago and have been practicing around my house, so far I have found old metal farm stuff and little trashy bits of metal, sadly no gold or silver.(sigh)

Twenty five or so years ago my kids took their Furby toys (remember them?) and buried them in the woods behind our house because they were "freaking us out". My goal with my new detector is to find the Furbies old decayed bodies and return them to my children. Sounds like a horror movie right?
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I thought about one of those, even browsed through some on Amazon. Do they only detect metal that has an iron content, using magnetism?
 
New things in the last two weeks:
1) Got a TDS meter and measured my water.
2) Got a new ro water system that is tankless. Am saving the first 10 seconds of flowing water to water my indoor plants.
3) Lost my cell phone - so am in the process of getting a new phone. Will buy insurance this time!
4) Got new apps on my phone, but now have to reinstall them on my new phone.
 

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