My teenage son and I have been getting into tennis.
Our last two housesits have included tennis courts in the gardens, and, as complete newbies, we have started practicing rallies several times a day. I never, ever, thought I would be playing tennis, and now I am - thanks to petsitting.
Anyone else play tennis on sits? Any tips? And, what other hobbies have you got into due to petsitting?
We started playing “geriatric tennis” ( Pickleball) before we started sitting but found it to hard keeping it up while traveling. My main hobby now is drone flying and filming then editing our travel blog. It also gets me off my fat **** and makes me explore more.
Cool hobby! Care to share some of your favourite drone vids?
My very new, officially not even a week old hobby is filming my walks through cities, towns, parks, and beaches, creating a sort of virtual walking experience. In fact, I got this idea a few years ago before joining THS and started my YouTube channel then, but it took me (only 
) five years and four months to actually launch it. I travel fulltime all over the world, and many of my travels include pet-sitting, so why not combine the two?
We have too many hobbies (when at home) so being away gives us a nice break from those hobbies, we can then enjoy them again when we get home. When you’re retired, hobbies can drift into what feels like ‘work’ if you’re not careful. A few housesitting ‘hobbies’ we indulge in includes the following:
Sure! I use drone shots in most of our videos but here’s a short with just drone shots.
Link please.
lol. We oven leave disfigured (not on purpose) towel swans on HOs beds. I can’t seem to get the knack.
As a spin-off from one of my usual hobbies (family history research), whilst Im in cemeteries/churchyards looking for ancestors I’m now photographing gravestones and uploading them to findagrave (helping other people with their family history research).
As a further spin-off from that, where I have the grave of someone in my family tree who died in WWI I like to add a short biography to their findagrave memorial. I want to mark the incredible contribution of ordinary everyday people in those extraordinary times.
Fantastic!
That’s a great idea! We often visit and photograph cemeteries but I never thought of “find my grave”.
Well, if you’re hanging around in cemeteries anyway, you might as well…!
You can do the very simple version of just uploading the photos but it’s helpful if you transcribe the inscription and ideal if make a note of GPS co-ordinates (or at least the section of the cemetery). That’ll keep you busy on the wetter days 
We discovered the joys of kayaking and canoeing whilst travelling in New England over the past 2 years. Just recently we’ve been lucky enough to enjoy lake living in upstate New York and Massachusetts. We’ve house sat on or very close to lakes and resevoirs its such a unique experience especially if you get a long sit where you can watch winter turn to spring or summer into Fall !!! Spectacular…
We were allowed use of an inflatable kayak on a housesit and now have one of our own.
@Ketch we are often in graveyards while geocaching, and I’ve used find a grave to help someone who logged one of my geocaches who mentioned that they had ancestors buried in the nearby churchyard but hadn’t been able to find the grave. For some reasonit hadn’t occurred to me that I could upload photos or update find a grave. We have even been involved in restoring an overgrown section of churchyard where we uncovered a grave that had been completely overgrown by ivy. The grave was of the rather wonderfully named Absalom Perrett and some of his family. I have lots of photos of that grave!
