Cooking
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I am just so frustrated that I cannot do my former hobbies anymore like cooking for example had been my hobby because there is nothing that I could do here in the house before I went online a few years ago but volunteer in cooking dishes.
I experimented about how to cook dishes that I learned first from my mother and then by trial and error I learned that in order to be consistent you just have to measure things up otherwise you will not get the same results.
Sometimes the dish was so nicely-tasting that even the broth or soup of the dish itself can very well be the viand itself. That is how well I would grade my cooking because I can make the product suit my own taste considering that in the past years I do not have the best appetite because of my anemia.
The last time I did cooked I have to rest my back maybe six times because it was killing me already. That was before I was not under medication for my hyperparathyroid condition. I never did attempted cooking after that because of the pain and misery that it causes me. But still I am hopeful that someday I will get to handle a pot again.
Target Shooting
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I remember in pawning the gold necklace that my father had given me so that I could add it to my existing cash. I added also the cash that got from pawning a ring that I found from the trash.
Then I bought a good CO2 rifle, it was the best thing ever and the most expensive that I had ever bought at that time. The year was around 1998 and I am glad that I ever bought even a simple air rifle and so I was able to learn how to handle a rifle by self-teaching.
The good thing was that the rifle that I bought is so accurate considering that I did put a lot of metal spear as a projectile in its barrel.
I also had used it for spear fishing which in turn made another hobby for myself, spear fishing. Too bad that there wasn't anyone else that I can call to join me because my troop do not have a rifle of their own so sometimes we end up sharing my rifle until one day I traded it for a air shotgun which again I wasn't able to use much because my health just deteriorated and my strength fizzled much away.
Planting
One of my occasional hobbies that I wasn't able to do much especially after our backyard was turned into a bakery-store-garage. Then the tree where I was able to make a yam vine creep up got whacked down by my father so after that I wasn't able to grow yam tubers anymore.
I also was able to grow taro plants where there are occasions that I harvested the leaves to make a delicious coconut creamed taro leaves.
But I just tried to forget about planting anymore after my father went home from working abroad because he really has a habit in intervening with what I am doing around the backyard.
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But if only I had the backyard of my own, a land for that matter, a patch of earth and of course an able body I would have planted things that I can share or maybe sell just like what my eldest brother is doing because he is also in #aquaponics and nightcrawler (earthworms) fertilizer production.
As for myself I would want to cultivate some grated fruits and trees for personal/family consumption. And all that still just remains to be just a dream for me more than a plan for because of my health's disposition. For now I could only reminisce these activities that I had done in the past which gave me a degree of happiness, and if only I could do them again in the future then that would be a gift that I will really cherish even if I can do it again for a very short period of time.