[speaker001:] well what hobbies do you have
[speaker002:] uh I crochet uh in in fact uh that's what I was doing when the phone rang
[speaker001:] oh you do  are you making an Afghan
[speaker002:] yeah I'm making a baby Afghan uh for my daughter-in-law's sister-in-law who's expecting baby number one at age forty
[speaker001:] oh how wonderful oh my goodness
[speaker002:] so I feel uh I feel like she needs a goody
[speaker001:] well I have a sister-in-law who had a baby at age forty and I think again at forty three so she's
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] but I'm expecting too so on my first
[speaker002:] oh my yeah
[speaker001:] but um I don't uh the only thing I really have done in the past is um uh cross stitch and needlepoint
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] um I had learned to crochet some things you know those little kitchen towels
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[speaker001:] where you cut a towel in half and you sew the top part on so you can I mean crochet the top part of it so that you can attach it to an oven
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I've done that kind of stuff but I haven't done anything as big as an Afghan
[speaker002:] um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] do you do that often
[speaker002:] no I I really don't uh in fact this is the first thing I've crocheted in in uh some time
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] but uh my grandmother taught me to crochet when I was five years old which is a long long long time ago
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] so but I I don't knit my something goes wrong with my knitting the the gauge doesn't work
[speaker001:] um-hum yeah that
[speaker002:] uh
[speaker001:] um I just haven't been oh I think I learned how to do that when I was real young too um one thing I'd kind of like to learn how to do is um quilt
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[speaker001:] um I see so many beautiful quilts and I have friends that that make them but you know there's just seems like there's not that amount of time nowadays
[speaker002:] hum I know I know
[speaker001:] you know because I work full-time outside the home
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] right now anyway I hope that'll change after the baby gets here but
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum yeah
[speaker001:] and then you don't have the time because you're tending to the child
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] but um it would be fun to learn how to do a few of those things
[speaker002:] yeah well I'll tell you how I sort of feel about it I I feel like uh of course in the olden days it was a matter of necessity
[speaker001:] right
[speaker002:] but it it I feel like now that you ought to do what you really like to do not just because your neighbor or your friends or your sister or somebody else is doing it
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] uh the the if it's not real recreation it's it's it's not doing you any good
[speaker001:] yeah I think that's true um like some people make uh um decorating their house a hobby
[speaker002:] uh-huh
[speaker001:] and I have a friend who she and I both got into our houses around the same time and she's real she has a knack for that
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] you know she made her own curtains and and I would love to be able to do all of that but I don't feel that I have quite the knack that she does
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[speaker001:] and so uh you know we're thinking of hiring a decorator and stuff and I sometimes feel like you know that's a cop out but yet if if I I don't want to spend all the time and money and not and then feel like it looks real cheaply done or or you know not be satisfied with it
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] but um my mother had that same knack you know for decorating and and it probably just comes with with age and with years of experience you know
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum no no it doesn't it you either do it or or you either like it or you don't you either have a knack for it or you don't uh
[speaker001:] hum
[speaker002:] and and and uh again I I feel like that if there's something else that you'd rather do uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] some people have a natural green thumb
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] uh and uh if that's what you like to do fine but if you don't then uh get a second job and hire somebody
[speaker001:] yeah
[speaker002:] do something that you like to do uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] life is too short uh I enjoy crocheting it it's real recreational recreation for me but uh and and I used to sew a lot but uh and I just don't have the time anymore I just now barely keep up with my mending
[speaker001:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker002:] but uh you know uh if you don't like to sew buy it readymade everything is available anymore and uh
[speaker001:] yeah yeah isn't that true we uh in fact mending it you even kind of has gone by the wayside for some most for many people if they get a hole in their sark sock they don't darn it they they uh
[speaker002:] hum-um dump it yeah
[speaker001:] uh throw it away and buy a new pair
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] but um yeah there's a lot of things that I think that I'd like to do but I don't make the time to do them you know and I keep thinking oh well when this happens then I'll have more time to do it and um
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] because I like committing a a great amount of time to something if I'm working on it