Lots of other things keep me busy... my "job" as a biologist, where I get to go hiking all day, see and handle all kinds of wildlife, and just get away from people and the hustle and bustle of city life (except today where I'm stuck in the office, because my supervisor assigned me to help with a report that's due in 2 days, because I'm apparently "good" at report writing). I also have a multitude of animals at home that keep me busy (see my signature). I haven't done much with my horses, but I keep trying. My goats and chickens are production pets (milk and eggs), and sometimes I let my chickens go broody and hatch some eggs, just for fun (roosters can't be kept and you can't give away roosters around here, so they end up humanely butchered to go as food for my raw fed dogs and cats). Love my snakes too, and occasionally do some education stuff with them.

I am also an artist (painting and sketching), customize model horses (my specialty is "portrait models", resculpted and painted to look like real horses), sewing, crochet, knitting, quilting, and a multitude of other crafts. Pretty much I do a little bit of everything. I have a Facebook page devoted to my sewing, quilting, and yarn crafts (PM me if anyone wants the link). I've also started sewing purses to try to make some extra cash on the side. And then there's gardening. Haven't gotten my veggie garden going this year yet, but we have several fruit trees in our yard (orange, tangerine, lemon, loquat, cherry, and an apple that isn't looking too great, also several cane berries and grape vines we are using to make a fruiting hedge between us and the neighbors since we have less privacy after taking out our horrible pepper tree), a native plant garden, and different flowers and sapling trees waiting to go in the ground when they get big enough (irises, roses, kalancho, river birch, flowering dogwood, redbud, spider plants, etc). Great ways to keep busy, and enough variety that nothing gets boring.