What Do You Do For Entertainment

[Marie Mallory]

For instance, we found a Drive in theatre here several years ago and that was fun to do again. Also, we like to visit the beach now and then which is only a couple hours away. Or go down the rivers here.
Otherwise, it is just online forums and YouTube.

 

[Mary Stetler]

It seems like almost everything I do could be considered entertainment. I don't HAVE to do anything. Even cleaning can be fun because sometimes I make a clean spot. I have the tv on all the time (roku) but don't actually watch it. It is a good nite light and a distraction if I have pain. I cook a bit although not the fun yummy stuff like before keto. We occasionally go out for a meal with others which is more technically entertainment.
I love looking at the beauties of nature in my environment And foraging!

 

[Krystal]

I don't really need too much entertainment anymore. I like to sit outside off and on through out the day enjoying the sunshine, blue sky, gentle breeze, and the birds. We watch a little bit of TV every evening; maybe a movie or a few episodes of a tv series that we like. I like to listen to some music or podcasts as I go on my daily walk, or doing some chores around the house. Post on a couple of forums. I'm rather a boring person.

 

[Jacob Petersheim]

Not much, but I hope to get back into long drives. I haven't done it for a while, so I get antsy now even with radio, most of my CDs on a USB drive, etc.

I used to drive a good 600 miles each way when my son was at school, and that turned into exploring up north so more trips of the same or somewhat longer.

I'm not ready for that yet, but I do miss a few spots I'd gotten used to stopping in at. At about a 3rd of that distance though we have some nice orchards operating roadside stands selling plums, peaches, nectarines, and cherries. Nothing like fresh! Apple orchards all over as well. And there are lots of little places to stop in to eat, assuming they haven't closed since I have been there.

So tripping with a destination. We'll see if I get it in gear. I'm thinking about some 100 mile trips to work my way up to more, so I have to do some research.

 

[Mary Stetler]

I don't really need too much entertainment anymore. I like to sit outside off and on through out the day enjoying the sunshine, blue sky, gentle breeze, and the birds. We watch a little bit of TV every evening; maybe a movie or a few episodes of a tv series that we like. I like to listen to some music or podcasts as I go on my daily walk, or doing some chores around the house. Post on a couple of forums. I'm rather a boring person.

We boring people need to stick together.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

There is nothing boring about doing whatever you like.

Once thing I seriously miss, is when we lived in Eureka, all we had to call a front porch was the 15'x15' top of the steps and wheel chair ramp. Cindy and I used to sit out there for hours in the summer, watching life happen. We called that The Old Folks Boogie, so named after this Little Feat song. (Lyrics below.)

Off our rockers, actin' crazy
With the right medication we won't be lazy
Doin' the old folks boogie
Down on the farm
Wheelchairs, they was locked arm in arm
Paired off pacemakers with matchin' alarms
Gives us just one more chance
To spin one more yarn

And you know that you're over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill
Doin' the old folks boogie
And boogie we will
'Cause to us the thought's as good as a thrill

Back at the home,
No time is your own,
Facilities there, they're all out on loan
The bank foreclose, and your bankruptcy shows
And your credit creeps to an all-time low
So you know, that you're over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill

Try and get a rise from an atrophied muscle,
And the nerves in your thigh just quivers and fizzles
So you know, that you're over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill

 

[Marie Mallory]

There is nothing boring about doing whatever you like.

Once thing I seriously miss, is when we lived in Eureka, all we had to call a front porch was the 15'x15' top of the steps and wheel chair ramp. Cindy and I used to sit out there for hours in the summer, watching life happen. We called that The Old Folks Boogie, so named after this Little Feat song. (Lyrics below.)

Off our rockers, actin' crazy
With the right medication we won't be lazy
Doin' the old folks boogie
Down on the farm
Wheelchairs, they was locked arm in arm
Paired off pacemakers with matchin' alarms
Gives us just one more chance
To spin one more yarn

And you know that you're over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill
Doin' the old folks boogie
And boogie we will
'Cause to us the thought's as good as a thrill

Back at the home,
No time is your own,
Facilities there, they're all out on loan
The bank foreclose, and your bankruptcy shows
And your credit creeps to an all-time low
So you know, that you're over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill

Try and get a rise from an atrophied muscle,
And the nerves in your thigh just quivers and fizzles
So you know, that you're over the hill
When your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill

Hubby had a nice time a few days ago, he got to play his guitar with a frie4nd from Tampa.
They both did good considering neither has played in years. Put on a nice little concert for his wife and I. A little rock ,a little country like Long Haired Country Boy by Charlie Danials. A Travis Trint song, Country Club,

one of the rock,

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I'm not quite ready for playing with other people yet, but for being two weeks away to the end of the three months between nerve blocks to relieve my pain, I'm impressed. Played a little more today. A couple of old ZZ Top Texas Boogie blues tunes. It's funny in a way. I can't make a fist due to arthritis, but I was able to play Duane Allman and Dickey Betts guitar solos yesterday. Sloppy and out of practice, but I'm happy that the songs are still in my fingers memory...

While I'm on that subject, yesterday I saw this video of Warren Haynes talking about playing Duane Allman slide solos in standard tuning. That caught my attention because, because I can't play slide guitar, and I always play in standard tuning. I managed to fake it reasonably well without a slide. But I never knew Warren Haynes played the slide solos with the same notes as I did, although he does play slide.

 

[MamaFrankie]

I listen to the music of Tomas Ledin.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I listen to the music of Tomas Ledin.

This him? I like the female singer of Abba.

 

[MamaFrankie]

Yes, this is him. He's gorgeous (even now at 73), talented and a nice person. His wife, like you, is called Marie and they have been married for 42 years. This is how he looks now:

 

[Cody Fousnaugh]

Well, let's see, for entertainment: Going to local indoor gun/rifle range. Watching some old episodes of MASH on tv in the evening. Watching AGT (America's Got Talent weekly. Watching an Audie Murphy western movie on GRIT. Playing our Wii Game. Watching one of our own DVD movies. And, possibly, stopping by South Point Hotel/Casino's Equestrian Center on a Saturday or Sunday to watch some type of horse related event.

However, for the upcoming 5 1/2 weeks of my radiation therapy, we will be doing some entertainment, but not as much as listed above, like going to the range or Equestrian Center. We will just have to wait and see how I feel after a session or two of the therapy.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

I hope that goes well for you, Cody.

 

[Yvonne Smith]

We both enjoy working in the yard and garden. Bobby does all of the heavy-duty stuff, and I putter around with the little things, and Bobby helps me when i need help with something I am working on.
It has warmed up enough to be in the swimming pool now, so we are usually out there with our little floats, relaxing and chatting with each other and looking at clouds, hawks flying overhead, and maybe airplanes . This is something we look forward to each summer, especially with the high humidity we have here in Alabama.
Of course, today, all Bobby had to do was say the words “swimming pool” , and how we are having a thunderstorm. So much for swimming……

Sometimes, we go to the fitness center, and I swim there (actually swim), and Bobby works out in the fitness area of the gym. We used to go a lot more often, but the one close to us has closed, and now it is a longer drive to get to the one we go to now.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Cindy as I used to have a membership for The Adorni Center in Eureka, she would walk for a while on the treadmills, and I would ride the bikes that go nowhere, and watch the boats come and go in the Woodley Island Marina across Humboldt Bay.

To go swimming in Eureka, you have to a membership at one of the few Health clubs or for the best pool, you have to be referred by your Doc for the Vector Physical Therapy & Aquatic Center. Their pool is the best for a 300 mile radius.

The hard part was getting into it. It was very popular and they only allowed 40 people at a time. However sometimes you could swim there for $2 if they weren't very busy with patients, but you have to get lucky for that. If you call them and check their pool schedule for patients, they can tell you the best time over a few days to get in. Maybe...

There's always the risk that the time they told you they were not scheduled to be busy gets booked up by the time you get there. Therapy patients get priority. Cindy and I both got independent therapy time so we had no schedule problems. She tried like crazy to teach me to swim. But to teach me to swim, my father threw me into Lake Zurich (in northern Illinois), and not knowing how to swim I sank like a rock. To this day I can't swim. But I loved kickin' back in that pool with Cindy...

 

[Yvonne Smith]

Our Medicare Advantage includes a Silver Sneakers membership, and that allows us to go to the Huntsville Hospital Wellness Center, and that is how we are able to have the membership, @Axel Slingerland . I don’t know if regular Medicare includes this or not, but i think that many of the Medicare advantage programs do. Now, we have Devoted Health, but before that we had either Humana or United healthcare, and both of those also included the fitness membership.
If you are interested in something like that, you might check and see what advantage programs cover in your area.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

In my opinion, if Eureka had it, Bakersfield will. Edison won't, that's almost guaranteed. We're on a waiting list for low income housing in Bakersfield, and if don't get something soon, we might pack it in and go back to the one place I called home since I started the band in 1976.

It's just too expensive here. Just to get groceries for a semi-decent price we have to drive between 10 and 40 miles round trip. Although, I do have to admit, if I take the freeway I can be there in 15 minutes, but if I take the back roads, the 15 mile drive to Costco through farm country is a nicer 20 minute drive each way. Winco is almost 20 miles each way.

But I do miss Eureka... 27 years is a long time. We've been here for a little over two years, and while we call it home, it doesn't really feel like home. They say home is where the Heart it, and mine is in Eureka, or at least somewhere on the coast. I miss going to the beach...

 

[Yvonne Smith]

In my opinion, if Eureka had it, Bakersfield will. Edison won't, that's almost guaranteed. We're on a waiting list for low income housing in Bakersfield, and if don't get something soon, we might pack it in and go back to the one place I called home since I started the band in 1976.

It's just too expensive here. Just to get groceries for a semi-decent price we have to drive between 10 and 40 miles round trip. Although, I do have to admit, if I take the freeway I can be there in 15 minutes, but if I take the back roads, the 15 mile drive to Costco through farm country is a nicer 20 minute drive each way. Winco is almost 20 miles each way.

But I do miss Eureka... 27 years is a long time. We've been here for a little over two years, and while we call it home, it doesn't really feel like home. They say home is where the Heart it, and mine is in Eureka, or at least somewhere on the coast. I miss going to the beach...

I can relate to that, @Axel Slingerland . Even though I grew up in north Idaho, I lived for many of my adult years in Western Washington. I miss being able to drive to the ocean and walk along the beach with my feet in the water, and just seeing the majestic mountains out there. I still have family out in the Seattle area, and I miss seeing them.

 

[Marie Mallory]

I'm not quite ready for playing with other people yet, but for being two weeks away to the end of the three months between nerve blocks to relieve my pain, I'm impressed. Played a little more today. A couple of old ZZ Top Texas Boogie blues tunes. It's funny in a way. I can't make a fist due to arthritis, but I was able to play Duane Allman and Dickey Betts guitar solos yesterday. Sloppy and out of practice, but I'm happy that the songs are still in my fingers memory...

While I'm on that subject, yesterday I saw this video of Warren Haynes talking about playing Duane Allman slide solos in standard tuning. That caught my attention because, because I can't play slide guitar, and I always play in standard tuning. I managed to fake it reasonably well without a slide. But I never knew Warren Haynes played the slide solos with the same notes as I did, although he does play slide.

Hubby plays around with the slide at times, he did Free Bird a little but he has a slide not sure why you two want to use one but then I don't play instruments.
Hubby didn't really want to play since he hasn't played in a while, but then once he and his friend got to playing they did great singing and playing, guess it all comes back to you.

 

[Axel Slingerland]

Even though I grew up in north Idaho, I lived for many of my adult years in Western Washington.

I did my AIT at Fort Lewis near Tacoma. I love up there. In 2003, Cindy, the kids and I stayed in a little spot for few days on the Hood Canal in a wide spot on the road called Lilliwaup. It was a great little motel we found on our "Rainy Vacation" the year before. Cindy loved that fireplace.

About six months prior to my arrival at Fort Lewis, I was on a bike trip on I-90 and stopped at a McDonald's in La Crosse, Wisconsin. I met this woman with two cute little girls, aged 8 and 10. We sat and talked for hours. After that she said she had to go get some rest as she had to drive 300 miles a day for the next two days to get to Rapid City, South Dakota. Being a silly teenager (I was 15 at the time, and it was 1975) I said "Don't drive too rapidly..."

She laughed as she kissed me goodbye and gave me her business card. She said "Here's my address and phone number, look us up if you're ever in Tacoma." After they left, I sat and looked at that card for over an hour. She was an Architect. I thought the next time I get to talk to her we can have an adult conversation. I love Architecture. Specially European, but anything really old. Like this building...

Hungarian Parliament, Budapest, on the Blue Danube...

Six months later I lied about my age and joined the Army. They found out after I had turned 16 so they decided not to kick me out. I called her and told her I was stationed at Fort Lewis. She squealed and said to her kids that I was there. I told her I was off duty and would love to see them. So she would come pick me up and we could go out for dinner at a restaurant she she liked. I was a happy man...

Again, we sat and talked for hours. So we're sitting there talking and her 8 year old says to me, "This is fun. Mom never takes us when she goes on a date." Awkward... After she turned about ten shades of red, she says to her, "This isn't a date, Honey." She says "Sure it is, Mom, we heard you ask him out to dinner!" Her Mom just smiled and said... "Shhh..."

Even though she was 8 years older than I was we "dated" every chance we got, and just to make she I did not get her into any trouble, I always invited her daughters. After I passed AIT I was transferred to Frankfurt, Germany. An architecture lover's dream... We stayed in touch until she passed away after a car accident 20 year later.

Hubby plays around with the slide at times, he did Free Bird a little but he has a slide not sure why you two want to use one but then I don't play instruments.

They're great for people whose fingers aren't as fast as they used to be. But before I tackle that I would need to buy a Pedal Steel guitar. Because I can do some stuff on one, but to stand up and play slide on my guitar... No way.

Edit: Too many Typos!