OT - Other hobbies OT

[RobertKB]

As I sit here we have another winter storm blowing in but as I said in another thread I have other hobbies to keep me occupied. Just wondering who else has other hobbies besides his old car. I also enjoy reading, photography (www.prairieironphotography.com), collecting wooden jigsaw puzzles and glass insulators, baking bread, and making wine. I am retired but busier than ever. Before I retired I used to say that work was getting in the way of my hobbies. I think it was true! Let's hear what other hobbies people have.

[homebrewer]

I have enough hobbies to almost qualify as a full time job. Woodworking, Metal working/fabrication, Neighborhood Mr. Fixit. Beer brewing, vegetable/fruit gardening, motorcycling, traveling/RVing. Cooking, sourdough baking, Pool playing and Texas Holdem. Whew I'm worn out.It is tough to get up every day and decide what I have to do as opposed to what I want to do. Honey do's always take preference. Any day above ground is a holiday. George

[Norm's Coupe]

Well.........I'm not retired as yet. Really don't plan on fully retiring even though I'll turn 65 this year. Unlike most people, I've always enjoyed my work, so will keep on humping till I can't hump anymore. However, I do have other hobbies besides the car stuff and work. I also enjoy woodworking (small things, not furniture, etc.), have also gotten into a little metal fabrication, and music (both playing music and writing a little). Other than that we like to travel, so will be doing more of that in coming years.

[Plymouthy Adams]

not sure if this quailfies as a hobby but remodeling the house at the moment..long put off plans now baring fruit...it is eating my wallet, time and brain cells..in large gulps..my carpal tunnel is still bad..still waking me at night...I am doing my work..some home therapy and staying off pain killers..I don't even take aspirin if I can help it..running my 12 lb air chizel taking out the concrete steps out back was enough to shock anyone carpal tunnel..headway being made and the son will be here shortly..he is a drywall/mudman...well at least he worked at that trade about a year..sure he has some skill..got to be better than myself...I am hanging drywall now, can do mudwork..just to slow at it...

[Merle Coggins]

My main hobby is motorcycling. With that comes my second "job" as a motorcycle training coach during the summer months. During the winter, when I can't ride, I get to tinker with my truck.

Merle

[aero3113]

Boating and mountain biking, its too bad I have to wait for the warmer weather to do both.

[LAKOTA169]

I guess right now my main hobby is photography. I also have an interest in Living History reenactment (1740-1840 era). Which would also include shooting muzzleloaders. When I have the time, I also do Native America-style crafts including beaded leather knife sheaths and leather hunting pouches. Next project is a new powder horn.

[Norm's Coupe]

Lakota reminded me when he mentioned Leather making. I picked up the tools for leather making several years ago with the intention of doing a little of that. So........that is something else I can keep busy with. Also I do a little woodburing along with the woodworking.

Tim, if remodeling the house is your thing, then it could be considered a hobby too.

Actually, all of the hobbies mentioned by everyone could also be considered a job or work. The difference work and a hobby is only that we enjoy doing whatever it is. My barber that I've been going to for close to 40 years is also retired. His hobbies that I know of are golf, boating, traveling and his Corvette car club that he belongs to. However, even though he's retired he still has a shop to cut hair, by appointment only. Said he can't quit cutting hair as long as he can still walk around the chair and do it. Said he enjoys the people contact on a regular basis. If he quit, he wouldn't have that as it is now. So..........in some cases, even your job can turn into a hobby when you get to retirement.

[Don Coatney]

My other hobby is the study of family history. Here are a couple of links.

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~inscott/Coatney.html

http://forneyclarkgenealogy.com/

[captden29]

i enjoy vegetable gardening, boating and fishing[ i have a 22' sportcraft with a 200 on it] and i actually like yard work if i can do it at my own pace. i used to be a fishing nut but over the last few years my interest in old cars has become more prevalent. i am about to start a businees to do a car service and i bought a 79 lincoln collecters series town car to start with. i will do airport service, weddings, and take people to events or whatever. i know the economy is bad, so i have nowhere to go but up if i have any sucess at all. dennis

[JIPJOBXX]

My hobby is collecting old motor home toys! And buying lotto tickets that are losers!!!!

[Dennis_MN]

I've been retired since 2002 and don't know how I found time to work.

First few years I considered myself and full time motorcycle rider, and a ridercoach during the summer months. Put on 138,000 on a Honda ST1100 from 1997 - 2005.

Then I bought the '49 Dodge Pickup with four wheels on the ground, and I picked up a few wood working tools, found the game of golf and then I fool around with computers. In the winter, I volunteer and do taxes for low income people and I fix the computers for other volunteers in my county.

AARP Tax-Aide Program

I also do genealogy in fits and spurts and am setting a goal to write up my family history by this time next year. Working on Sullivans is like doing the genealogy of jack rabbits. They all had a bunch of kids and they named them from a collection of about 10 names.

My work so far carved into stone....

http://sullivan.us.com/Extra/Gene/photo001.html

Dennis Sullivan

[old woolie]

Old Mopars would be my secondary hobby. My first would be music,collecting,listening and playing. Any other guitar players here? What do you have?

[grey beard]

I do a little technical writing for antique tractor magazines and enjoy making lots of music. I play piano, organ, guitar, 5-string and autoharp. Play piano at church and sometimes guitar preludes. I also make wooden bowls on the lathe - just finished a beautiful box elder with red flames in the natural grain.

Biggest hobby just now is full-time on-demand grand pa babysitter. Go figure . . .

[Brendan D25]

Interesting thread Robert, besides puttering in the garage and doing work around the house I am a ham radio operator and an avid reader of car related literature. Time flys. Brendan.

[Dennis Hemingway]

Besides playing with the cars, puttering in the garage and doing yard work I like to go camping and fishing.

Dennis:cool:

[Normspeed]

Old cars, photography, diecast cars from 1/64 to 1/25 scale, camping in my teardrop trailer, fishing, motorcycling, boating. I have two boats, a 1986 18 foot V6 I/O Galaxie bowrider and a 12 foot Porta Bote with a 6 hp outboard. Also enjoy firearms and plinking but haven't done any hunting since around 1966. Oh yes, there's also my newest obsession...I mean hobby. Fixing up vintage tractors.

Like Robert KB, I was born to retire, and it became really obvious last year that my time had come. Busier now than when I was working and enjoying life a whole lot more.

Lakota, your leather and beadwork is beautiful. I have a peace pipe around here somewhere...

[LAKOTA169]

Lakota, your leather and beadwork is beautiful. I have a peace pipe around here somewhere...

Thank you. Pipe Hawk, didn't make it, just decorated it.

[John Burke]

Old Mopars would be my secondary hobby. My first would be music,collecting,listening and playing. Any other guitar players here? What do you have?

I play the guitar....I have a flat top Larravie built in Canada...very sweet axe...play mostly finger style...I also do rock & roll piano, a little banjo and mandolin...The wife plays the hammered dulcimer and fiddle...we intertainourselves and friends and once in a while do the openings at church...it's fun watch them old wimmin tapping thier feet as we play old southern gospel songs...WE are still building Old Hickory style furniture and I woodcarve and teach woodcarving...If anyone want's to see a catologe of our furniture, let me know...wesell at wholesale prices...You can see examples at www.westernwoodcarvers.com ...click on Nebrastik Furniture..I'll be 69 in May and it never occured to me to retire...jb

[jimainnj]

Hobbies years ago Wood carving, oil painting, genealogy. Coaching youth soccer for 15years, riding my Harley's all over the USA in the summers( too old now) now back to cars, Golf, repairing every thing in the house & outside the house( can't stand some one else doing it if I can). and of course reading the posts here.

[BobT-47P15]

My music hobby quite a few years ago turned into a part time job. I play

the bass guitar - was part of a 50s--60s rock-n-roll band for 23 years, and

have been working with the same guy named Max for the last 9 or so years,

currently play one night a week at a local club and one Saturday afternoon

per month at the same place. I can also play some on a six string electric

Ibanez Les Paul I have, but pretty limited.

My main amusement is the harmonica, of which I keep the 7 main keys,

and carry them around about every place I go. Sitting in to play a couple

songs with bands wherever I may be is another "hobby".

I like to collect old microphones and other old musical equipment, as well as

find period items to go with the 47 Plymouth. Have about stopped collecting

scale model cars as no more space to display them. As a kid in the 50s, used

to build the AMT "customizing kit" models when they first came out. Have

a handful of unbuilt kits stuck in a drawer that I might have time to build

whenever I retire.

Enjoy reading about old cars, looking for parts, tinkering with the Plymouth,

participating in this forum. Haven't really developed any other exciting

hobbies.....seems like there's always something going on to take up the

spare time.

It looks as if some of you fellows do some very interesting and

creative things.....more power to you!

[Norm's Coupe]

I play the guitar....I have a flat top Larravie built in Canada...very sweet axe...play mostly finger style...I also do rock & roll piano, a little banjo and mandolin...The wife plays the hammered dulcimer and fiddle...we intertainourselves and friends and once in a while do the openings at church...it's fun watch them old wimmin tapping thier feet as we play old southern gospel songs...WE are still building Old Hickory style furniture and I woodcarve and teach woodcarving...If anyone want's to see a catologe of our furniture, let me know...wesell at wholesale prices...You can see examples at www.westernwoodcarvers.com ...click on Nebrastik Furniture..I'll be 69 in May and it never occured to me to retire...jb

Don't see many people playing the Mandolin. Years ago I played a little guitar and electric guitar. My primary instrument since I was a kid is the trombone though. That's a little loud to play at home without a soundproof room though;) , so haven't played it for years. I got into playing guitar primarily because my daughter wanted to learn when she was going to school. She had trouble practicing and grasping it at her regular lessons. In helping to teach her how to read and play music, I learned how to play the guitar. However, she gave up on it and didn't want to practice so she still doesn't play. Then I picked up a used electric guitar for myself. Have since sold both of those though. About 4 years ago I bought a Mandolin because I like the sound they put out. Thanks to Roland White's instruction books I've learned how to get around on it now. But........that still wasn't enough to satisfy me. When taking private lessons as a kid I had my instructor teach me how to write and rewrite music. To do that he had to teach me how to get around on the piano. So.........last September to get back into writing and rewriting music I bought a new Yamaha electronic Keyboard that does just about anything you want. Still learning all the extra bells and whistles on it now. Using it I can write the music and record it on the computer at the same time. This allows me to go back after I've recorded something, then dub in a background for whatever I've written. Also allows me to use an existing piece of music and change it around while playing it into the computer and recording it over again in my version. Once I get that down pat it will really be neat. Still working on that part though.

Music is an addiction with me when I get going on it. As a kid I would practice and play music for about 3 or 4 hours per day, in addition to my regular lessons. Same thing happens when I start playing the keyboard now. So........I do have to limit myself on it, or it could easily take over all other hobbies. I do it for my own enjoyment though and don't plan on playing music in a public place. In fact, when playing the keyboard it has head phones so only I hear what is going on.

I primarily like popular, jazz, R&B, gospel, country and 50's/60's style rock & roll. Not necessarily in that order. Even like a little Bach and Beetoven (long hair stuff) once in awhile.

[Fireball]

Drag racing, I used to race for an decade myself, now I'm helping other guys out as a crew chief/mechanic. We won both the Nordic and National Championship last year. I did that myself 1999 and 2000.

I also exercise four times a week, but that's not a hobby that's because of my ruined back. Keeps me from paralyzing totally. I also skate (on ice) once a week, hobby with my 6 yo son to teach him.

Then there is HD and riding, building and relaxing that along my D-24

At the moment nothing else

[old woolie]

I play mostly country,the older outlaw type stuff,Cash, Jennings, Hank Jr, etc. also bluegrass,early rock and roll/rythym and blues. Play electric and acoustic guitar,bass and learning mandolin. I have a 1964 Gibson J45 and a 96 Fender Stratocaster,Yamaha bass[looking to upgrade] and a mandolin that my uncle made.

[BobT-47P15]

I've used Fender Jazz basses for the most part over the years.

The neck is a bit smaller than the Precision neck.

I also have a Fender Zone bass......is a smaller body style, and just a

bit lighter than the Jazz. However, it's one of those with onboard

electronics that takes a 9 volt battery. That's the part I'm not too

crazy about. Aside from the tone getting a bit fuzzy eventually, there

is no real way to tell when the battery is getting low. And to make the

battery last longer, the cord should be pulled out when you sit it down,

like to go on break during a gig.

Originally bought it just for an extra, but the guy I work with likes

the sound better than the Jazz (which is generally more bass-y),

so have been using the Zone lately.