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Do you get bored always using the same bin? (1 Viewer)
- Thread starter CliveP
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Beth
Your second paragraph about meditation, etc. is spot on for me too. I tried that stuff and it did nothing and I found some of it to be mumbo jumbo.
Just getting out in nature is healing for me. It helps more than anything.
I've been to many shrinks over many years and had only mild improvement.
I think much of it is hereditary for me.
I also keep it simple. I began with a bino and a small camera and then ditched the camera, as it was too cumbersome. I like just having memories and I don't need a photo of everything. I will occasionally take a pic with my iphone at some wildflowers, butterfly or something, but that's it. I only bring one bino and I'm not a 'lister' per se, but I have my own life list and I do report on ebird frequently , but this is to contribute to data for biologists to have records of local avifauna. I do like how it also saves a life list for you, so it is a good backup to my paper book...or, maybe the paper book is the backup at this point. I also want to get back into drawing or painting and focus on landscapes, but there's just not a lot of time with working and feeling drained by the weekend from the job.
Simplifying life: I have also sold lots of stuff on ebay over the past years, donated stuff and recycled and now I have much less junk in my apartment and it feels very good.
I wish you the best with your health and happy you recovered and can get outdoors to do the things you enjoy.
Clive sometimes it takes a kick up the bum from life to remind us what is most important. Both me and Troubadoris find not only comfort but stimulation from nature observation. I'm not sure where you are based but we enjoyed a terrific visit to The Burren a few years back, not only for the flowers (for which it is famous) but the Mountain Hares, the inter-tidal marine life in the intricately eroded limestone and non-breeding Great Northern Divers just off-shore.
Lee
I wish you the best with your health and happy you recovered and can get outdoors to do the things you enjoy.
Thanks and I hope your shoulder mends well soon and you can get back out there also. I hated being indoors just today but I knew it was going to be a wet one and I needed to at least give myself one day off cycling. I think I'm getting a bit addicted to it but it's not the worst addiction a person could have.
Really starting to notice the nights arriving earlier now and mornings later. Look forward to next spring already.
I enjoy visiting parts of Ireland also and the West Coast is very laid back and getting drunk and doing a bit of Irish dancing is mighty craic but currently I'm near to Armagh City back where I was born and the area I know best although I sort of wish I had been born down the road to where the Mountains of Mourne sweep down to the sea, an area which I can see from here on a clear day. Maybe there is still time but maybe I'm to lazy to bother about moving there now. Nowhere here is to far away to at least be able to visit and in good weather it's as nice as anywhere.
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Do you get bored writing a lot? 8-P
It's ok I can probably guess.
Ok seems some are no's and others are yes and everything in between. So there we have it. There is no conclusion to be drawn.
I could make do with one decent pair and be fine, something like my Kowa SV 8x32 but would say I definitely like the variety and I do get a bit bored when I have only had one or two bins in the past. I do like thinking before I go out, which bin do I fancy trying today.
I guess this is good news for bino manufacturers that at least some feel the hoarding urge but it's partly that I had to buy bins to get to try them anyway.
I think also when anyone upgrades their bins it will be partly due to being a bit bored with or to accustomed to their existing bin, besides wanting an improved model.
Thanks for all the inputs and don't get bored ..... (with your single bin
)You can always buy lots more 8-P
See that bin makers, you should be grabbing me to promote owning lots of bins on a world wide crusade. We'll introduce the first totally recyclable model or even a biodegradable $3000 model :t:
