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Cool thread, loving the pictures of everyone's creations I read a little, did pen and ink art for a while, love completing puzzles... But my main hobby (besides rocks) is crocheting. Mostly make little animals and such.
closer pictures of the guinea pig from the last picture
A whale I made for a friend
A lobster
Those are adorable!! I LOVE that lobster- too cute! And the guinea pig and the whale.....
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
I've had a lot of hobbies in my life and some of them morphed into how I earn my living. Right now I'm full guns on creating a coprolite collection and it's looking like I can improve it by a large magnitude if I keep going for a few more years.
I've designed and created firearm cartridges for decades and now I manufacture ammunition for my "real job." That's one that went from hobby to career.
In 1981 I took up building log homes as a type of hobby and soon focused on the architectural design aspect as my passion. It soon became a career and I've built over a hundred log homes and did not subcontract any part of it. I did the excavation, concrete, plumbing, HVAC, electrical, roofing, finish work, all of it. Even did the logging and saw milling. I always considered it to be more of a hobby than a career for some strange reason.
Now days I garden and cook a lot.
If we were able to carry the love and tolerance shown here into the world as a whole and get anyone to follow the example set, who knows what could be born from that? Stonemon RIP
Post by idearthmover on May 8, 2022 16:27:28 GMT -5
I don't know if my gardening is a hobby or a way of life now. I try to can as much as I can. Pick choke cherries and make jelly and syrup. Tool leather, don't do as much as I use to do. Arthritis in the left thumb has taken the fun out of leather tooling. Use to play guitar a lot have gotten out of that mode. Still rehabbing the shoulder so can't do much guitar playing. Just enjoying life and seeing what's around the next corner or over the next ridge.
What are hobbies? I think my main hobby is trying not to get any more hobbies . A ways back I did a lot of work with small animal rescues (ferrets mainly, but kept a lot of different critters over the years) and dog rescues. Got into board gaming pretty big for a long time but Covid kind of slowed that way down. I still build Lego and do the occasional glass mosaic art, but mostly focus on my rocks & raising my kids to be decent, upstanding citizens.
"And if my ways are not as theirs, let them mind their own affairs. Their deeds I judge and much condemn, yet when did I make laws for them?" - A.E Houseman
Post by victor1941 on May 13, 2022 18:41:49 GMT -5
Gardening is my first hobby after rock tumbling and my third interest is making preserves from peaches and apricots. Cable for science, history and travel channels are also in my interest area.
With all the craziness going on in our society I've been getting more serious about prepping and now it's become a full blown hobby and to my surprise it's become quite enjoyable! I now have a serious garden and a converted cold room in my basement to store food supplies. Another basement room is a supply place for most of the other stuff and I finally have it all organized.
I used to make fun of the tin foil hat wearing teotwawki weirdos and kinda still do, but there's some real peace of mind to be had if one hedges against future uncertainty. Some of my main incentives are to increase convenience and combat inflation besides improved security.
There's something comforting about self sufficiency and living within one's means. I recommend it.
If we were able to carry the love and tolerance shown here into the world as a whole and get anyone to follow the example set, who knows what could be born from that? Stonemon RIP
With all the craziness going on in our society I've been getting more serious about prepping and now it's become a full blown hobby and to my surprise it's become quite enjoyable! I now have a serious garden and a converted cold room in my basement to store food supplies. Another basement room is a supply place for most of the other stuff and I finally have it all organized.
I used to make fun of the tin foil hat wearing teotwawki weirdos and kinda still do, but there's some real peace of mind to be had if one hedges against future uncertainty. Some of my main incentives are to increase convenience and combat inflation besides improved security.
There's something comforting about self sufficiency and living within one's means. I recommend it.
Great post! I don't have room for a garden, but I have a huge rack full of home canned food and lots of other supplies. It definitely is nice to have back ups.
Post by rockpickerforever on Jun 17, 2022 15:52:05 GMT -5
I am finally starting to put stuff away for when push comes to shove. I used to have problems with just buying food for a week at the desert, but we don't know how long this will last! Went to Costco yesterday, bought a bunch of goods to put away. Whatever you buy, when you get home you realize it's not even close to being enough. We just finished rototilling more amendments into our garden, ready to start planting. (Better late then never!) We just rototilled an area at my 78 year old neighbor's house, then planted some tomatoes for her, we were discussing what we both feel is emminent. Hard to believe how many people have their heads in the sand about this!
She mentioned hearing about it online, I told her I certainly have not heard the MSM telling people how bad it (food shortages) will most likely get. If the media were actually doing their job, and keeping people informed, a lot more people might plan ahead for it, and not be caught totally off guard. Most people are preparing for themselves and their families, they are not preparing for those who don't. It is coming, everyone should prepare. Does everyone remember the story of the ant and the grasshopper?
My top 10 (non-rock) hobbies / interests, in no particular order:
1. Being a slave to my cats 2. Playing the violin and mandolin 3. Vegetable gardening / making compost / propagating and planting trees 4. Finding excuses to digging holes or move dirt around with my little tractor / backhoe 5. Playing with chainsaws and cutting down trees 6. Splitting firewood with an axe 7. Burning wood for heat / wood stove design / modifying wood stoves 8. Reading, especially novels in Spanish 9. Roasting coffee 10. Drinking way too much coffee
Wow, holajonathan, you have some interesting hobbies. You are quite skilled!
I've also done some guitar building and playing. The first and last guitar in this picture are two that I built. The middle ones are ones that I refinished and modified. I'm actually playing a gig tonight in the town next door. They're having a 3-day sweet potato festival. We're not really even a band anymore, but the last few months we've had some nice gigs trickle in so we keep doing them. They've all been shorter earlier gigs where they furnish the PA and pay better than normal. Hard to pass up. We've got material to do 4 hours in a bar. Tonight is 1 hour starting at 5:30. Looking forward to it.
Last Edit: Oct 2, 2022 9:57:13 GMT -5 by rockbrain
Bigfoot is often called Sasquatch, Yeti doesn't seem to care!
Saw this thread again today & thought I'd join, BUT
I think it can be kind of scary to put this on paper (you know what I mean).
I have a bunch of interests:
-Cooking is one- although I'm not sure that's a hobby, but a necessity, as we like to eat good.
-Gardening - growing vegetables as always been one, but I wonder some years with the climate here if it's worth it.
-Plants - I have a small greenhouse.
-Metalworking - I like to create things out of copper (mostly jewelry), and that has led me more into rocks, as now I can cut and polish my own. It made a huge difference.
Enameling, metal etching, metal forming, etc, etc
-Machining- my husband has been trying to teach me to do lathe & mill work - I like to make aluminum jewelry that I then anodize different colors.
-Weaving - I've not woven anything in probably a year, but I'd still call it a hobby, and my loom will call me back :-)
-Sewing- Nope- that's what I do for a living
-Boating, sailing, kayaking, beach combing,hiking, all going places where there hopefully aren't a lot of other people !
-Reptiles - I keep turtles & tortoises & a tree frog and some Central Newts (unintentional, accidental acquisitions)
-Fish Aquariums - we have a couple.
Gotta stay busy
I always wonder about some people that retire & can't find anything to do but watch the tube-
I'm going to be playing this guitar at my gig tonight. It was made by Doug Kauer of Kauer Guitars up in elk Grove near Sacramento. It's somebody I met through a guitar finishing forum. He is a cabinet maker but when the economy got bad he started doing guitars and it just took off. What's unique about it is the top is made out of formica. He got it from a store called Ad Art that has been in Sacramento forever. He got a sheet of that and two sheets of blue. It was NOS. material that they had had sitting around forever. I don't know why I remember, but this is the formica that was on my first, second and third grade classroom countertops in Sacramento. I had the same teacher all three years. It was a special time for me and she became a really good friend.
Doug builds pretty high-end guitars that start around $1,000 and go up from there. My brother came up and won this in a raffle. He's let me borrow it for a while.
Bigfoot is often called Sasquatch, Yeti doesn't seem to care!
I'm going to be playing this guitar at my gig tonight. It was made by Doug Kauer of Kauer Guitars up in elk Grove near Sacramento. It's somebody I met through a guitar finishing forum. He is a cabinet maker but when the economy got bad he started doing guitars and it just took off. What's unique about it is the top is made out of formica. He got it from a store called Ad Art that has been in Sacramento forever. He got a sheet of that and two sheets of blue. It was NOS. material that they had had sitting around forever. I don't know why I remember, but this is the formica that was on my first, second and third grade classroom countertops in Sacramento. I had the same teacher all three years. It was a special time for me and she became a really good friend.
Doug builds pretty high-end guitars that start around $1,000 and go up from there. My brother came up and won this in a raffle. He's let me borrow it for a while.
That's a beauty! I love that 50s pattern on the formica.
Cool thread, loving the pictures of everyone's creations I read a little, did pen and ink art for a while, love completing puzzles... But my main hobby (besides rocks) is crocheting. Mostly make little animals and such.
closer pictures of the guinea pig from the last picture
Post by realrockhound on Feb 3, 2024 16:28:59 GMT -5
Here's my new hobby. Just picked this up today. Needs some TLC. Runs great, and most work will be cosmetic. Will need to rebuild the motor at some point and the rear end. Upgrade the breaks to disc as well. But should be a slick ride when done.
Here's my new hobby. Just picked this up today. Needs some TLC. Runs great, and most work will be cosmetic. Will need to rebuild the motor at some point and the rear end. Upgrade the breaks to disc as well. But should be a slick ride when done.
Reminds me of a '67 model I had. Pretty cool.
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