[speaker001:] hobbies tonight okay well let me go ahead and press one
[speaker002:] yeah sure
[speaker001:] okay Leslie I'd like to find out a little bit about your hobbies what do you like to do in your spare time
[speaker002:] well and when I have my spare time I do enjoy
[speaker001:] that's a cherished commodity now days huh
[speaker002:] that's right um I do enjoy uh sewing uh hand you know I do some needlepoint
[speaker001:] oh great
[speaker002:] and I I've been doing a a picture for my father-in-law that if I I ever get enough spare time he might see it one day and and some other things I like to do are is music and um also reading
[speaker001:] uh-huh what kind of music
[speaker002:] so well I enjoy singing yeah
[speaker001:] oh okay well great I enjoy music too and I uh one thing that I like to do uh is sit down and and play the piano I can't play that well but I uh sit down and enjoy playing musical selections that I familiar with
[speaker002:] um
[speaker001:] my famuel family's familiar with I enjoy that uh couple of hobbies that I also have is uh I enjoy I really enjoy bike riding
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] and the biggest hobbies I have right now are my kids and whatever they're involved in
[speaker002:] yes hm yeah
[speaker001:] like my uh oldest boy is involved in soccer so we go out and play kick the soccer ball around or play uh throw the football and uh they also like to ride bicycles so we're riding bicycles and so a lot of the hobbies that I have right now are are centered around my my children and also things that my wife and I like to do
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] together and uh so personally lot of the hobbies that I had when I was growing up um in going to college and so forth are have changed
[speaker002:] um-hum
[speaker001:] I really enjoyed uh mountain climbing I really enjoyed skiing um and a lot of outdoor activities and uh there's not a whole lot of mountains here in in Texas I can go skiing with that right now but hopefully I'll be able to get back to the slopes someday so
[speaker002:] that's right yeah I I've not had the opportunity to to go skiing but I grew up in Arizona which had some mountains around it but uh
[speaker001:] um-hum
[speaker002:] never did get out and ski
[speaker001:] you didn't
[speaker002:] no I never did didn't have the I guess I didn't have the person out there saying hey let me take you skiing and of course I was at that you know stage of my life where I had to be taken places places I couldn't go by myself but
[speaker001:] yeah that's true that's true
[speaker002:] and then of course then once I got to the age where I could've done it myself I had other interests I guess so
[speaker001:] oh yeah I guess that for me it was very helpful my two oldest brothers were very interested in skiing
[speaker002:] oh yeah
[speaker001:] and so we we went quite often and uh in fact my brother still does a lot of skiing and when I lived around in that area my brother would fly in from Chicago and we would we would go skiing and enjoy that
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] so but uh luckily it's it's kind of unusual because hobbies it's a it's a nice thing to have and it's it's good to fall back on those hobbies when you have time but like you mentioned and I am finding out a lot of the spare time that I had isn't there
[speaker002:] that's right
[speaker001:] it's uh it's uh taken up by activities with uh work with family with um civic and church responsibilities for me
[speaker002:] um-hum um-hum
[speaker001:] so
[speaker002:] yeah I I find that if I I make I have to make myself to realize that it's important to get out there and not you know just even to go for a walk is good recreation for me
[speaker001:] oh yes oh yes oh yes
[speaker002:] yeah and my youngest daughter is gonna to be starting up soccer so she's real excited about doing that so we'll we'll be busy with that again
[speaker001:] well great what again so you've participated that in the past
[speaker002:] pardon me
[speaker001:] have you participated participated in that in the past
[speaker002:] well I did with my older daughter and she was in it for a few years but she's got so many interests herself that we had to start eliminating and that was first one to go she still likes her piano
[speaker001:] uh-huh  uh-huh
[speaker002:] and she's in band so so she's got lots of hobbies or uh activities going on
[speaker001:] sounds it sounds like her life is full too
[speaker002:] yeah
[speaker001:] I imagine your life is full taking them around all over the place
[speaker002:] very much keep that's right that's right
[speaker001:] all right all right well Leslie it's been very nice talking to you is there anything else that you'd like to mention tonight or
[speaker002:] um no I think we covered it pretty good thank you for calling
[speaker001:] okay great well thank you and you have a nice evening bye now
[speaker002:] you too bye-bye