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Since the world collectively hit pause when the coronavirus pandemic took hold last year, we’ve all had to find ways to stay entertained while staying at home. Some of us took up baking bread or cooking our grandmother’s classic comfort dishes. Others took on DIY house projects and home gardens.
Southern Living recently caught up with one of our favorite Hallmark faces, Tyler Hynes, and he shared that just like the rest of us, he’s taken up a few hobbies to keep busy in the past year. Just like many of us, this came in the form of home improvement. “A friend of mine and I, one of my closest friends, we purchased a cottage that we’re renovating so that’s been a project. {To} create a place where our families and friends can have a little place to escape to without having to travel,” he shared. And while he claimed, “I know my way around a hammer,” the Canadian actor admitted that he knows when to let the experts take over. “These guys are professionals and can tell you all kinds of things that you should do that you would never even think of.”
In addition to the cottage, like many of us, Hynes brought a new fur baby into his home last year as well. “He’s a pandemic puppy. Purebred pandemic puppy,” Hynes said with a laugh. “It’s something I wanted to do for a while and I just never had the time to sort of focus on it and do it right, and the opportunity hadn’t presented itself… My family had…