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After we dive with the sharks, we feed them any fish carcass that's left over after we filet them, or any undesirable fish we catch like Barracuda. Last year we learned the lesson that we need to make sure the swim ladder and all extra lines are out of the water first.
 

 

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Well, as I read over the posts so far, I am at the point of concluding that I must be weird or at least an oddball. Here is the thing though, I so much enjoy what I do, fixing problems on vehicles. Seriously. I do. Here at our garage, we all (5 of us) enjoy what we do. We have, shall I call it fun? all day long. However, for diversion, I do gardening which produces alot of the food my wife and I consume. I also enjoy lawn work and deleting items from the wife's 'honey do' list. For extra diversion I study history (especially church history) and family genealogy. 

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4 hours ago, tdmart said:

Well, as I read over the posts so far, I am at the point of concluding that I must be weird or at least an oddball. Here is the thing though, I so much enjoy what I do, fixing problems on vehicles. Seriously. I do. Here at our garage, we all (5 of us) enjoy what we do. We have, shall I call it fun? all day long.

Not at all.  In every position that I've ever hired, I tried to find people who's job is their hobby.   What a win when you can find this!   They are reading about work at home, practicing work off-hours, even if it's some other random side-projects,  and making themselves better overall.   

My wife and I have a slightly different diversion than you.   We buy houses with really nice vegetation and landscaping, then systematically kill it all off.  I do grow some mighty nice weeds though.   

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