RVs, Fish, and vegetarianism

[cyclonefence]

These are three areas in which my life has changed since I've been stuck inside, mostly watching TV and reading DU.

I have never been interested in recreational vehicles--or in camping of any kind--yet I find myself obsessively watching the several TV shows about RVs, big, small, and especially restored.

I'm still not interested in owning, using or looking at a real RV.

I have never been interested in fishing, but I have been seduced by Jeremy Wade and Zeb Hogan, who fish for River Monsters--these are fish that would just as soon tear your face off as look at you, and they are not in the ocean but in lakes and rivers, even shallow lakes and rivers. I always thought catfish were the most sluggish and harmless fish on the planet. Hah.

I don't want to go fishing, but I'll never swim in a river or lake again.

Additionally, Zeb Hogan seems to be afraid of fish, even non-dangerous fish. We never see him taking out the hook (both of these guys throw the fish back into the water) or even landing the fish into his boat. He might drag it up onto a beach, but again, we don't see him with his hands anywhere near the fish's mouth until it's restrained.

And after watching a cow play with a big ball out in the field I cannot eat meat of any kind.

Has CV19 changed you or your interests in unexpected ways?

[Codeine]

1. English canal narrowboaters.

I watch them obsessively, multiple channels, despite the fact that I am quite certain at no point in my life will I ever have a narrowboat or live on a canal.

Also some English kid who moved to Montana and makes knives and swords and shit for a living. Never gonna do it, but love to watch it.

[MLAA]

2. Hurray for the vegetarianism! You are making a lot of animals happy!

[csziggy]

3. Wood Turning, Africam, and videos for cats

For zen TV watching, I've been watching a lot of wood turning. Some of the videos have good music, but if they don't I just turn the sound off and watch people make cool stuff with weird knots of wood, or with weird stuff in epoxy. There is one Australian turner who has made pieces with feathers, gold flakes, and other strange inclusions in the epoxy.

I re-discovered Africam, which is now on the Explore Channel on YouTube. I've seen elephants, giraffes, a rhino, lots of birds, and plenty of ungulates (antelope/deer sort of things). I started watching these after all the osprey chicks fledged. While the osprey nest cams are still up, watching an empty nest is a little boring.

There are videos for cats that have lots of birds and some squirrels. Some of those are as long as eight hours long, so they are great when I can't sleep at all.

Oh - I forgot Tim Harrell's wildlife cameras - he puts up trail cams in Florida and picks them up every two or three months. He talks too much while he shows how he gets to where the cameras are set up but the video parts from the trail cams are quiet. He gets lots of Florida wildlife just being themselves.

I have no interesting in actually doing wood turning, don't particularly want to go to Africa, but the bird and wildlife watching are something I do every day anyway.