Woodworking, vintage woodworking machinery,it has all the same attractions as vintage sewing machines though the machines are larger and heavier, gardening, though I'm pretty bad at it, and beekeeping.
I started with vintage sewing machines and quilting because Olivia wants to learn to sew. It turns out I like it as much if not more than she does. It fills the need for something I can do in the winter. Since my heavy lifting days are done the sewing machines fill the gap left by having a shop full of woodworking machines and not being able to handle them like I once did. I can run them but rebuilding them is much more difficult now. I also get cold very easily and my shop isn't heated. I can mess with old sewing machines indoors.
Rodney