Due to the COVID-19 shutdown, some residents in New Hampshire have spent life at home since March learning new skills, exploring newfound passions and accomplishing once-daunting tasks with hard work and perseverance.

Now, as the timeline of coronavirus’ landing on American shores nears the six-month mark, such individual passions, once viewed as an outlet to pass the time, have become instrumental to the “Safer at Home” everyday lifestyle for some Granite Staters.