Shabbat Shalom brother!

I don't see why there should be a problem. All these activities are relaxing, family-bonding (Ruach haEliyah/Spirit of Elijah), love-spreading (Yah'shua-promoting) and Yahweh-honouring. You're not earning money or traveling long distances. If they can see that you're drawing as an act of worship to Yahweh, I don't see what's wrong with that.

As an illustration, every Sabbath we watch a couple of episodes of Little House on the Prairie as they teach all of these things. They're a wonderfully relaxing and instructive tool that I find I am continually referring back to (as do they) when I am preaching or having family gatherings. I highly recommend you get them.

I think what you're doing is just fine :)

The way I see it:
To the extent that it is possible, we should live on Shabbat, as though we were living in what the Shabbat represents: The Seventh / The Millennium / The Kingdom.
We'll have immortal bodies that do not need to do work or eat for hunger; the Shabbat meal is a ritual of slow ceremonial perfection, not a sloppy munch-fest right.


On a separate note, I dont see the Biblical definiton of work as excluding things that could be called recreation, such as bicycling.

I pretty much agree wholeheartedly with you there. However, there is a Torah prescription on how far we can travel on the Sabbath so going on an exceedingly long bike tour would seem to me to be crossing some lines. But i see no problems with a relaxing short distance one.