What do you do to relax?

[mystreba]

I do Taekwondo, play guitar and go to the beach. :thumbsup:

(One of my) 12 YO sons appears to be following in your footsteps. He just started Tang Soo Do and loves it. And he plays finger-style 8 string electric guitar (Recuerdos de la Alhambra, etc) - he's very good. He'll have to work on the beach part though, 'cuz it's a three-hour drive!

 

[mystreba]

Wiring, plumbing, tiling, framing, drywalling, masonry - basically replacing, refinishing and rebuilding every square inch of my house. Since I homeschool my kids this works out well because I give them french lessons while I work :wink:

Although I sure do cuss a lot while I'm doing it, to me it's very relaxing.

 

[1 Lucky Texan]

I admit I surf the web a lot.

When my kids or friends are over, we sometimes play board games/table games like Settlers of Catan or Crows, etc. recently, I found a game that is in 'production' that should be delivered in September - it's based on Melville's Moby-Dick ;Moby Dick, or, The Card Game by King Post — Kickstarter

also, a fun ,'different' , outdoor game for the lawn is Kubb; How to Play Kubb - YouTube

(probably not 'ancient' and the whole bones/skulls thing is bogus but, that is close to how we play - except the first team , on the first throw only, only get 4 throws, 6 throws for each time for the rest of the game, you can buy sets, but you could make a set easily, adjust the field size for kids or give them a closer baseline to throw from)

 

[giturgun]

Reload, shoot, I am a benchrest shooter mostly. Like to put em all in 1 hole. Also like to reform and make my own brass fo a couple of chamberings I have.

 

[mowerman05]

Go to the shooting range so I dont miss when needed, great stress reliever.:drink:

 

[exotion]

Go to the shooting range so I dont miss when needed, great stress reliever.:drink:

I work on small engines. Its a hobby and I have a few friends who can't seem to maintain their equipment and I get lots of free stuff off craigslist.

 

[djdicetn]

Camping & fishing!!! Nothing as relaxing as sitting around a campfire in the outdoors or in a secluded cove trying to hook the big un:0)
My wife "made me" buy a boat back in 1990, so we went to a Boat Show in Nashville and ordered a Sprint 18' Fish & Ski to match my 1995 Chevy truck's color(my male co-workers and friends always say they wish their wives would "make them" buy a boat when I tell them that:0) We live 15 minutes in either direction from Old Hickory and Percy Priest Lakes near Nashville, TN so it's very convenient to go fishing(and believe me, if the barometric pressure is 30 or above & rising and the wind is less than 5 mph.....my wife is ready to hit the lake). The boat's been garage kept since we bought it and may have 200 hours on it so it's still like new. We are both retiring this year and my first objective is to spend enough time on the area lakes to be able to put my wife on a 6 pound or larger largemouth bass(she's caught a few 3 pounders or so but never a real lunker). That would "make my life complete" because you wouldn't be able to wipe the smile off her face for a year after that!!!
We always tent camped when our kids were growing up(and when we saw travel trailers, RV's or fifth wheels pulling in we would say "that's not camping.....THIS is camping"). Well, now that we're old farts guess what??? Yep, we bought a travel trailer in 2008 and that's another thing we'll be getting our money's worth out of after we retire. We've taken a couple of long trips so far(Acadia National Park in Bar Harbor, Maine two years ago to "get a lobster" and last year the Outer Banks on Cape Hatteras to "go to the beach") and we really look forward to traveling all throughout this beautiful country and camping in every contiguous state.
Seems like you never have the time to do the things you want to do or really relax when you're a working stiff and we so look forward to the time we will have to do just that after we retire!!!!!

 

[reynoldston]

Nothing is more relaxing then a Harley Davidson sportster on a good twisty road or any road.

 

[Carscw]

Nothing is more relaxing then a Harley Davidson sportster on a good twisty road or any road.

I Agee nothing more relaxing then being on a bike on back road

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

 

[exotion]

I Agee nothing more relaxing then being on a bike on back road

(( racing is the only sport that you need two balls ))

Dirt biking is fun