lets face it we all have hobbies other than backpacking and hiking, for instance I restore antique tractors, ride motorcycles, and bowfish in my spare time and I am just kind of interested to hear what yall do in your down time. Korea
That understandable they are harder to come across,And i will admit JD make some very nice tractors always been very fond of thier model A and the way their engines will bog down but never seem to die. Korea
Registered: 02/03/06
Posts: 6800
Loc: Gateway to Columbia Gorge
Reading, singing in choir, listening to choral music, teaching a mid-week children's Bible class, playing with my dog. You reallyy don't want to be with me in my car when choral music on my CD player (such as Handel's Messiah) is at full volume and I'm trying to sing the alto parts!
Edited by OregonMouse (01/22/1001:13 AM)
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JD and International, huh? I bet you've both told the third biggest lie there is: "I paid for this hat." (Comes right after "The check's in the mail" and "I made money farming.")
My hobbies: playing with the granddaughters (they are my best revenge); chess (and related strategy games such as go); golf; reading (nonfiction, mostly history.) Sometimes, just for fun, I push my wife's buttons by saying I need some new gear; that can light her up pretty good.
Registered: 05/28/08
Posts: 278
Loc: Texas Hill Country
National Rescue Coordinator, rescue boat captain, and rescue diver for Lucas Oil Dragboat Racing Series. Scuba diving, underwater photography, whitewater rafting.
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This seems to be the morning for taking a perverse view of things. I was supposed to meet with a client this morning (I'm a CPA), but she called last night to reschedule so she could get some urgently-needed dental work done today. One of my employees analyzed it quite nicely: "So, she had the choice between meeting with you and having a root canal - and she chose the root canal?"
I'm old, and I don't like to admit I'm out of touch - even though I am. I've always wondered what "Indie" is - would you mind helping me out so I don't look stupider than necessary in front of my kids and grandkids?
Root canal… That would be a good joke for the ‘daily chuckle’ Glenn. Too funny.
INTERESTS AND HOBBIES: Family, backpacking, biking, LED flashlights, building electronic projects, playing piano, music composition, basketball, volleyball, clogging, magic, small electronic gadgets
Making hiking gear, writing, reading, hand-forging tools and iron work, motorcycling, bicycling, restoring old cars (currently on back burner) bulls-eye pistol, reloading and cursing Democrats and Republicans on alternate days.
I have too many hobbies, which means I do poorly at all of them (spread too thin). of course, backpacking is a hobby. Also on the list: building furniture, biking, soccer, softball, running, snowboarding, wilderness survival, raising rabbits (hope to add chickens), swimming, doing stuff with my kids, making equipment (clothes, bags, packs, etc.), studying religion (mostly mine, but others sometimes), teaching my boy scouts, and playing video games (I am poor, so this doesn't happen all too often). I am tone deaf, so singing is out, but I LOVE classical and choral music. Luckily I married a beautiful soprano (beautiful in both looks and voice). I am trying my luck at knife making and blacksmithing (although not quite there yet).
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Hm well custom woodworking, Riding my Harley, building my chopper project. Rolling chassie is built from scratch. Machining on the metal Lathe and milling attachement. Flying rc planes , Hiking, hunting ,Fishing, reading, repairing anything that is broke, including computers for good friend. Spending time with my wife and kids, even though most of my obbies are not theres.And my latest is gunsmithing. Im sure I forgot a couple. As long as it works my mind so I do not go idle it is my hobbie!
Registered: 01/10/06
Posts: 679
Loc: Central Texas
Designing, building and using: high performance solo pocket cruiser cedar-strip canoes, wooden bows, arrows and related gear, UL backpacking gear, anything else whereof I am dissatisfied with available products.
Trail building and maintenance, backpacking, long distance backpacking, paddling (upstream tripping), archery, shooting, reading (history, archeology, paleontology, anthropology, comparative religion, folklore, linguistics, fiction, poetry).
Well besides backpacking I really enjoy mountain bike racing anywhere from short track to long distance stuff like Leadville and 24 hour races. I also like climbing but have not been able to do as much as I used to. Wrestling and teasing my kids, camping with family, firearms, and some road biking. I have a new found interest in building UL gear and wrenching on bikes.
Spock So do you knap your own arrowheads? I admit that I use 1/4 inch wooden dowels from Home Depot, I make my own arrowheads, and tie feathers to them with artificial (nylon) sinew. I do not bow hunt so I can't say that my arrows have ever taken any game. But sitting by a lake in the wilderness with flaking tools making an arrowhead is pretty cool, especially when ya pull out a stone knife to cut up lunch with. Jim
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