What is your hobby?

[kennypinkerton]

I like to constantly learn new things. So my hobbies tend to come and go. I've built and flown model airplanes off and on for the past 15 years. I competatively raced 1/10 scale R/C cars for a while (nascar, 4wd touring cars, and offroad dirt oval). I've owned 3 large telescopes and enjoy amatuer astronomy. I like photography and digital photo manipulation. I've fiddled around with tesla coils and a few other high voltage projects. I used to enjoy atv riding, but gave it up after I found myself trying jumps and stunts that were eventually going to put me in the hospital or worse. I have a nice small boat to go fishing on. I also have a small Snipe sailboat. Computers used to be one of my hobbies, but I'm always on one anymore, it's more like a form of casual entertainment now. My wife and I made candles for about a year or so when we first got together. Who knows what the next hobby will be.
I enjoy working on my sportscars when I want to, but not when I "have to".

 

[terriphill]

My husband and I work together in spring and early summer in our vegetable garden out at the County Farm (tomatoes, okra, spinach, squash...) We also work on one of the half a dozen home remodeling projects around our house (our best is the new kitchen we designed and built).
I also quilt, make jams, jellies and preserves (mmm peach jam), love to cook, travel (49 states and 6 countries), camp and hike (longest so far has been 21 miles across ROcky Mountain National Park last summer)
Hmmmm, maybe we will get that B running before next year?

 

[Banjo]

Lesse, I'm a lot like Kenny, I find all kinds of things that intrest me and try 'em out for a while. They usually all include history, antiques or lost-arts. I guess cause I like to be weird.
Some of the things I do or have done are
HO scale model trains and slot cars
RC boats (battleships mainly)
RC cars
1:24/1:25 scale plastic model cars
Ameture radio (and some CB)
Black powder shooting/ living history camping (and modern camping)
Music. Bluegrass, rock, blues, old timey, christian, comedy. (Jack of many instruments, master of none)
Canoeing/Kyaking/ small boat sailing
Photography/ darkroom (anyone wanna buy some real nice darkroom equipment?)
Motorcycles
Restoring Reel mowers (only push type so far. I'm looking for some gas powered ones)
And I generally get enthused by anything old and mechanical.
I wanna see how it works.
I also love to read.
aaaaaand LBCs of course.

Sadly, I really have very little time for any of this stuff.

 

[bugimike]

I too, like many of you, have had interests that come and go! Two enduring interests, or hobbies, that have lasted over the years are shooting darts, which I have done competitively in a league for close to twenty years, and collecting minature car models of all the cars I would have liked to have had real ones of. Cars (mainly, though not exclusively LBCs) have been a passion for me since early childhood!

 

[PAUL161]

I'm retired & wish I had time for a hobby!

I had more free time when I was working! Go figure!

 

[NutmegCT]

Banjo: <span style="font-style: italic">"And I generally get enthused by anything old and mechanical."</span>

I think many of us share that gene! Take a look at the machine tool collection of the American Precision Museum collection up in Vermont:

https://www.americanprecision.org/

Or the "history of automatic transmissions" at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn:

https://henryfordmuseum.org/museum/mustsee.asp

T.

 

[longbridgehealey]

What a great thread this turned out to be!

 

[14dna]

I have six children, so that, alone, takes up much of my spare hours.
I've always had an old car to work on, and I've done extensive renovations to our house and yard.
That's the normal stuff. I've played semi-pro hockey in my youth (quit at age 44 when my knees gave out) and I've coached 14-16 year old boys hockey for 34 seasons. Even coached a couple of young guys who went to the big time (read NHL). Any funds I've been given for coaching, I direct back into our local organization so some young boy or girl can play who otherwise couldn't.

All this means I'm just like the rest of you. I care about my community an friends (this includes all of you).
Glad to be a member of this elite group.



Dave

 

[AweMan]

I did the R.C. planes and cars in the 60`s the C.B. radio craze in the 70`s, Mostly SSB on a Yaesu FT-200 {Henry radio Tempo one} I QSL`ed the upper 11 meter band, anything north of 27.405 mghz all over this planet during the days of DX. Had a lot of fun with that. I dabble in woodworking, I dabble in electronics {nothing to complicated} I am a proficient welder and metal worker. I`m an above average mechanic. I paint {as in cars} At the present i`m into riding trails on my ATV, camping in my motorhome. I collect shotguns, My intrests are many. I want to try my hand at stained glass. I have tried laying tile and do ok at it but it`s best left to people with better knees than I. I used to Before it became against the law go ghost town searching, {townships that existed in the mid to late 1800`s} I loved doing that and have some relics, old coins and the like i`v found doing it. I`v followed the old promotory railroad grade from promotory point Utah into Nevada searching for the End Of Track campsites among other ghost towns here in Utah.

 

[tony barnhill]

I'm retired & wish I had time for a hobby!

I had more free time when I was working! Go figure!

Exactly my point!! I don't know how I ever had time for work before I retired what with all my other activities.....now that I'm focusing on those activities, I'd surely not have time for work!

 

[Tom_Fisher]

I am a facilities & office manager in the Entomology Dept. at Purdue University in the USA. I will be 70 in April and I am tentatively thinking of retiring at the end of 2008.

My hobbies are many and varied. I am a consummate do-it-yourselfer and usually manage to fix most problems around the house. I own a 69 MGB and love to tinker with it. I also belong to several Internet forums that pertain to MG cars. I enjoy bird watching and keep several backyard feeders. Weather permitting, I am an amateur astronomer of sorts and even ground my own 6” mirror for a Dobsonian style reflector telescope.

I have belonged to an International Seniors email group (Senior-World or S-W for short) for well over 10 years. Within the S-W group, there have been periodic "gatherings" and my wife, Lillie, and I have been to five of these in Seattle, Washington; Halifax, Nova Scotia; Osaka, Japan; Auckland, New Zealand; and Sydney, Australia. Home Page: https://www.nlci.com/users/fishers/

 

[rick_ingram]

Other than LBCs what kind of hobbies do our members
enjoy for fun and relaxation. Post some photo examples
if you have them!!

I collect pharmacy antiques....apothecary bottles, scales, prescriptions, etc. I have several prescriptions for whiskey and alcohol from Prohibition...I have a federally issued Marijuana Pharmacy License from the '40s...a lot of Eli Lilly related products...etc.

The bottles you see here were made in the mid to late 1800's and were used to stock the chemicals that were used to compound prescriptions. (If you remember the scene in "It's A Wonderful Life", the pharmacist had these bottles in the back of the pharmacy.

The bottom picture is a "pill roller". A paste was made and rolled into a "worm" (similar to what we did with PlayDoh)..then the worm was rolled through the "gutters" to make uniform shaped pills. This item dates from the laqte 1800's to early 1900's.

Much of this is now a lost art.

Trivia...Rx means "Take Thou"..."Secundum Artum"....according to art.

Your list pharmacist....

 

[rick_ingram]

Other than LBCs what kind of hobbies do our members
enjoy for fun and relaxation. Post some photo examples
if you have them!!

I also collect plastic scale model kits. Most are 1/24th scale with a few 1/32nd and a couple of 1/8th and 1/12th. Many are MG specific. Several are of other British marques such as Triumph, Mini, Morgan, etc. Many kits are of American vintage 1953 (the year I was born) or re-issues of kits that I built back in the 60's. I also have models of the real cars that I have owned in the past - a 1957 Chevy, a 1970 Chevy Nova, an MG Midget, a Datsun 280Z, a Nissan 240SX, a Nissan 300Z, my Ford F150, and two different body styles of the Honda CRX's (that I had MG badged). I was recently able to find (on E-Bay) an original issue of the very first kit I remember building as a child, a 1959 Corvette.

My diecast car collection is still boxed up, but will "see the light of day" soon.

 

[kennypinkerton]

wow, nice kit collection. I have a small collection of plastic car and airplane kits too. I used to build the snot out of them as a kid. I really don't remember the first one I ever did. The last one was a few years ago - 1957 chevy truck modified with dodge viper engine, interior, chassis parts. chopped, tubbed, and channeled. with the hood all smoothed out. Looked great. My favorite 2 models were the see-through inline 4 turbocharged engine, and the 2ft+ tall space shuttle I built the christmas after the challenger exploded. Both fell a few years ago and broke.

 

[vping]

I've got a Lindberg Sprite kit around here somewhere.

 

[bugimike]

Nice to find some fellow modelers!! I too have been building them since my early teens! I used to love to get the "see-through" drawings that used to be a feature in Road & Track and then try to scratch-build models of them. I even won fist place in a local model-builders contest with one of them in the early 60s (I have pictures of them somewhere!). I have built a couple of models of cars that I owned which really allow for a lot of detail with a real-life example to follow for the details (e.g. my '77 Scirocco)(PS the model has been around since '77, the real one went to the wrecking yard with well over 200K miles in 1999!)

 

[rick_ingram]

Nice detailing, Mike!

 

[terriphill]

I knew you guys were cool!

 

[DNK]

hobby?
2 teenagers

 

[Tinster]

Basil needs to change the name from The Pub to

The "Place of all Knowledge"

flabbergasted!!

d