Hello from the UP of Michigan

Upnative · #1 09-10-2007, 08:53 PM

Hello form the Uppper Peninsula of Michigan.

I have been carving for 3 years and have been doing birds so far. Song birds and a few ducks. Here is my question: How do you find TIME to carve. The older (62) I get, the less time I seem to have. I LOVE to carve. The stress relief is wonderful. I feel at peace with the earth, God, and life when I am carving. BUT I NEED MORE TIME....................... If anyone has this problem already figured out please let me know.

Ray Sischo
Marquette, MI

GeorgiaCarver · #2 09-10-2007, 11:21 PM

Yikes, I was hoping that problem would get better with time!

Greg

Tom H · #3 09-11-2007, 07:47 AM

Priorities, Ray, priorities! I had the same problem 17 years ago when I retired. But everything kind of fell into place and worked itself out after I overheard my wife talking to someone on the telephone. I am sure the question was, "what's Tom doing now?" Wifes answer, "he's out WORKING in the shop". I don't know how it happened, but she still thinks that carving is working......so now if the choice is between working and well anything else, I choose to "work"......

Tom H

bbeery · #4 09-11-2007, 08:11 AM

Hey Ray, just a suggestion from one of your neigbors in Three Lakes. At first program an exact period of time for carving. Maybe each day, an hour before supper or serveral hours several times a week. Like, set a time you're going to start and end, make it happen. I like to get up early and carve before the days activities get in the way.
I'm 74 and, like most of us old guys, don't know how I ever had time to maintain a full time job.

Hi_Ho_Sliver · #5 09-11-2007, 10:26 AM

There is actually lots of time available...but you have to give up eating and sleeping! lol

thats the trouble with retirement, you get busy and don't even get a day off!

Upnative · #6 09-14-2007, 09:47 PM

Thanks for all the input. I guess the answer is just MAKE TIME. I have 3 more years of my regular job then the chips will fly....................

Mottles · #7 09-14-2007, 10:07 PM

Welcome Ray, hope you'll share some of your carvings with us. As for finding time to carve I find I just have to make time each day. Well, unless we have company of course. I tried making an appointment with myself to carve each day. But life kept getting in the way. LOL Guess I'd just say carve when you can and the heck with everything else.
Kathy

Eddy Smiles · #8 09-14-2007, 10:59 PM

Greetings Ray! First thing you've got to do is retire.... That should open perhaps an hour or two a day because the wife is automatically going to increase the size of your honey-do list!