On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 16:05:32 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 2019-04-16 3:59 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>> On 4/16/2019 5:09 PM, graham wrote:
>>> On 2019-04-16 2:27 p.m., Ed Pawlowski wrote:
>>>> On 4/16/2019 3:08 PM, Boron Elgar wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:13:26 -0700 (PDT), Nancy2
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Leo, I gambled in Monaco (promptly quit when my $20 self-imposed
>>>>>> limit was gone), and also
>>>>>> in one of those old mining towns in the hills of Colorado...same
>>>>>> result).* We went to the
>>>>>> Riverside Casino just to check out the food.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I always thought gambling was the equivalent of just throwing your
>>>>>> money out the window.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> N.
>>>>>
>>>>> One could call anyone else's hobby a money toss, I suppose.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sure for some. The payoff is in enjoyable time.
>>>>
>>>> I built a lot of furniture that is in regular use.* Some could have
>>>> been bought cheaper.
>>>>
>>>> I built this about 15 years ago and is still used on my front porch
>>>> https://i.postimg.cc/L4LNMw4B/Tudor-Bench-1.jpg
>>>>
>>>> I built two and gave one to a friend.
>>>
>>> A beauty!!! Did you use teak or white cedar?
>>> I have been donating my woodturnings to charity. Marketing them is too
>>> tedious and I had enough of that when I was working.
>>
>> They were cypress.* I never sold anything.* That would take a hobby and
>> turn it into a job.* I've made a couple of things for others and they
>> paid for the wood but one stipulation was no deadline.
>
>In my case there are only so many friends and relatives to whom you can
>give a bowl and I have a couple of dozen rough-turned ones that are
>drying. I turned about 75 coffee scoops before xmas that were donated to
>a foodbank drive to go with donated coffee. That was quite satisfying.

I'll trade you a bowl for hand knitted wool socks