So how do YOU do it?

[SunshineNative]

Don't worry Mike, they come back!!!!

Yawls lucky I have to try and keep the kids from fighting while trying to work! Or else stay up late after they go to sleep. Oh well one day they will grow up and be gone. And I'm not looking forward to that at all.

Mike

[SunshineNative]

I have learned a few things lately. Number one- wolves like the smell of leather, deer and elk hides are like candy to the little buggers! So I now go hide in the kitchen with either coffee or a big ol' iced tea, and bang the heck outta stuff while the wolves howl outside. Now who can beat that for music? Believe me its better than hearing myself sing along! I can't carry a tune in a bucket!

Dianne

Edited March 22, 2009 by SunshineNative

[tashabear]

Diet Coke on the counter behind me, audiobook on the iPod (or Pandora.com, streaming new-to-me music). Usually an audiobook, though; my Audible.com membership is worth the expense.

[TrooperChuck]

For me, it's 1970's pop music or new country, sometimes some talk radio. A diet coke or iced tea. Take a break at noon to give the horses their lunch time hay and take the dogs for a walk. In winter time, stoke the wood stove. In summer time thank God that my shop is in our basement and it's always 65 degrees in there!

And of course, I take several breaks to sit down at this silly computer to see what the folks at leatherworker.net are talking about.

[azrider]

I have an old desk I work on upstairs, and will blast anything from Hank Sr. to Pantera. Drinks go on a table a few feet away. My last big project though, I actually dragged my stone and tools downstairs to the coffee table, and watched about 5 seasons of the Simpsons and the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy. The key for me is that it needs to be something that I will pay too much attention to while I work on the leather.

[TwinOaks]

I listen to a couple of different genres- anything from Bocephus and Charlie Daniels to Garbage/techno to classical guitar. It depends on my mood.

Right now, I'm listening to my neighbor try to figure out why his Harley with straight pipes is backfiring.....

I work at the dining room table, so sometimes I listen to kids (6&8) fighting, other times it's my wife asking if I'm coming to bed yet.

On a brighter note, I've cleaned out my workshop so I'll soon be moving out there. Just as soon as I replace the meter box on the house with a 200A service and run some power out to it via underground conduit.

Edited March 22, 2009 by TwinOaks

[MarshalWill]

I did a stint building machinery. More often than not, there was loud music playing on both sides of the shop, never the same type and I worked in the middle. Usually Mexican folk music battling it out with hard rock. Both sides turning the music up so loud they didn't have to listen to the other. I got tired of being surrounded with noise. Now I enjoy quiet while I work. I suppose some good music would go well but I just don't think of it. I like having iced tea on hand. Maybe I'll try some music one of these days.

[SunshineNative]

I like having iced tea on hand. Maybe I'll try some music one of these days.

Some of us walk to the beat of our own hammers.

Be Well. Live Long.

Dianne

[flyingcuda]

music..usually tea party...metallica. then i have to have a drink, usually a beer to steady the hands...i am the type to beat myself up before i start the kids and hubby know that they don't come near me when i am working...i can mess things up pretty good on my own now if i can figure out a way to make a leather boo boo eraser...i'd have it made!

[Shelly]

My computer is in the shop, so I use it to stream oldies rock, pop, and classic country, depending on the mood. Sometimes just background, and quieter, but, when I decide to play the Eagles, EW&F, etc, from My Music, it's usually cranked up! Have thought about audio books quite a bit, just haven't taken time to check on that...!