what are your hobbies away from the dirt

[9420pullpan]

im curious and wondering what other people enjoy doing on the weekends? i love to play in the snow, skiing and plowing in the snow whenever i get the chance, i also collect diecast models. and i love to drive around and look at all the iron around soo much history in this NorCal area........

 

[Cat420]

I never go too far from the dirt. I ride and race Atvs.

 

[Countryboy]

Right now, deer hunting every chance I get. Its a real stress reliever. I feel sorry for the deer this weekend. It's been a bad week at work . If I'm not doing that then I'm working on project truck, a 1985 Chevy Silverado. :yup

 

[Jeff D.]

Playing with old cars and guitars.:thumbsup
Oh, and snowmobiles too.

 

[CascadeScaper]

I have too many hobbies. I'm into cars, only German though. Drive an Audi right now that's a project car in the process. Going to supercharge it down the road. I'm also a photography buff, have about $3K into camera gear. I do a lot of backpacking, skiing, mountaineering, hunting, fishing, and 4x4'ing when I have a truck handy. Just bought another mountain bike, I was into downhill racing a couple years back when I was still in high school, sold off my race bike and now I'm trying to get back into it.

 

[Squizzy246B]

HEF...the correct answer is HEF....

Ummmm...I think I remember when I had time for hobbies...all those fishing rods I built are just covered in dust and cob-webs.

 

[RonG]

Playing with old cars and guitars.:thumbsup
Oh, and snowmobiles too.

Hey Jeff,you been holding out on us!!!!!!!!!!
Love those Mopars!!!!!
My good guitar is a Gretsch Country Gentleman including the thumbpicks to go with it,got a few others here.What is that book on the stand for?????Ron G:bouncegri

 

[Squizzy246B]

Hey Jeff,you been holding out on us!!!!!!!!!!
Love those Mopars!!!!!
My good guitar is a Gretsch Country Gentleman including the thumbpicks to go with it,got a few others here.What is that book on the stand for?????Ron G:bouncegri

I want to know what the cordless drills are for next to the couch

Wait....No...I don't want to know

 

[Squizzy246B]

Playing with old cars and guitars.

Hmmm...I can feel a song coming on...

Playin with..Old Cars and Steel Guitars
Is better than...some sleazy Bars
But that don't pay the Bills....

 

[DigDug]

I am into off road motorcycles. Dug bike , Rokon, Tote Gote. Heres my website for a bike I am building to sell.
www.DugBike.com

 

[CEwriter]

I'm mostly a has-been myself, what with the volume of work to be done and two daughters getting to middle-school age these recent years. But I'm biding my time, waiting for a load change.

For example, a couple of years ago I raced a dozen or more road-bicycle races and a 24-hour mountain bike relay race. Mileage is way down now, but I'm still putting a couple thousand miles a year on a road bike. And I'm leading spinning classes at the YMCA once or twice a week. Worst of it is that I can't get out on the mountain bike nearly as much as I used to.

Used to play harmonica in with the praise band at church once or twice a month. Still playing enough on my own to keep loose.

Got into snowboarding over the past couple of years. Took my 13-year-old daughter out to Copper Mountain early this year, and she learned how. It's the 11-year-old's turn this winter. That's some of the best R & R time I've ever spent.

I do some camping and paddling with my family. Going with some guys on my first backpacking trip -- a 2-night shakedown cruise -- after next week's turkey feed. Not sure where all that's going, although my wife is getting curious, and it would be nice to share a hobby with her.

Also used to do some woodworking. I have a half-finished armoire that my father started years ago that I'll finish one of these years, Lord willing.

L

 

[CascadeScaper]

CEWriter, get off that roadie and onto a DH rig! Actually I have a lot of respect for road riders, that's some intense training. I know a guy that rides his road bike 100+ miles a week just to train. I'm going to start downhill racing again next season, here's my new ride that I picked up last week.

 

[CEwriter]

I'm going to start downhill racing again next season, here's my new ride that I picked up last week.

That is, indeed, a beautiful thing. I love going fast downhill on singletrack, but it's been a few decades since I was in high school and I don't heal nearly so fast as I used to. There really is no downhill racing here in Missouri, anyway.

Mountain biking is my first love but the road bike, ultimately, is too convenient. It requires the least of the two things I have in shortest supply -- time and money. I can use the time it would take transporting to singletrack working out on the road bike, and my road bike doesn't need tuning up or repair 1/10th as much as the MTB.

That said, I've been meaning to do some local cross-country racing. The workload may ease just a bit here in 2007, and I may enter my hardtail in some local races (my only official MTB race is 24 Hours of Moab).

We shall see.

 

[Jeff D.]

Love those Mopars!

Me too!! My first car ever was a Cordoba just like the one in the pick, except I've a big block in this one. I've always liked the old Mopar engines and trannies. They just needed to figure out how to make the bodies last longer.

My good guitar is a Gretsch Country Gentleman including the thumbpicks to go with it,got a few others here.What is that book on the stand for?????Ron G:bouncegri

:thumbsup Well that's a little higher end than mine, I think. That's an Epi Dot Deluxe LE in the pic. I've another Epiphone acoustic and a Harmony H-90. I've never had the chance to play a Gretsch guitar yet. I do like the sound of the hollow body's and semi hollow body's better for some reason.

Those are lyrics and some tablature for the songs I play, on the stand. I've a bad habit of forgetting what verse I'm on when I'm playing sometimes.:Banghead :wink2

I want to know what the cordless drills are for next to the couch

Wait....No...I don't want to know

It's in case I need to perform an emergency "purple nurple". She'd have to much time too escape if I had to run out to the garage for it. Doesn't everyone use cordless drills for that?

No...........I bring them in the house in the winter because they always seem drained when they're left in the cold garage.

 

[Orchard Ex]

I make a little homebrew beer - some pretty good copies of Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, Dixie Blackened Voodoo Lager and Theakson's Old Peculiar.:drinkup
I used to play electric bass in bands until a couple years after college, haven't played seriously in at least 10 years.
Currently building an airplane in the garage. At the rate I'm going I might get to fly it by the time I retire..:yup
Here's a pic of the first "big" piece I finished. It's the horizontal stabilizer without the elevators attached yet.

 

[Electra_Glide]

Currently building an airplane in the garage.

Hey Orchard,

Make sure you carefully read Jeff's "Homemade OROPS" thread. Hate to see you get your plane all finished and then have to post a thread on here asking for suggestions about how to get it out of the garage... :Banghead :bouncegri .

For me, as I posted in another thread, it's model railroading. In warmer weather, I'm usually out puttin' around on the motorcycle.

Joe

 

[RonG]

I agree on the Mopar bodies although my newest Dodge,a '95 4x4 still looks pretty good.175k with no squeaks and rattles.They are durable,that's for sure.It looks like the 2.2 engine has the potential to be legendary as well,they are tough.
I always liked the Gretsch sound too,especially since Chet endorsed them.I bought mine new in the late sixties.
I don't play much any more but some of the old thumbpickers stop by occasionally and make me embarrass myself so I have not hung up my thumbpick just yet.
I have a resentment that you can now download tablature on your computer to show you how to play just about any song that you want while I had to learn the hard way.I find now from the guys that use it that I have been playing some songs in the wrong key!!LOL
I could tell that it was just a hobby,you could never weld with that amp!!Ron G:bouncegri

 

[Jeff D.]

I have a resentment that you can now download tablature on your computer to show you how to play just about any song that you want while I had to learn the hard way.I find now from the guys that use it that I have been playing some songs in the wrong key!!LOL
I could tell that it was just a hobby,you could never weld with that amp!!Ron G:bouncegri

I was getting all my songs from Harmony Central's OLGA (online guitar archives) but they were shut down by pressure from the reconding industy I think.:crying Now I've no place......that's free atleast.

My little VOX amp has a real smooth tube sound, and some other niceties like reverb, multi channels, memory, etc. but it's only 15watts. It's loud enough for my den, but when I "need" to crank things up I have to mike it and run it through the PA. It's a much better sounding amp than the 50 watt Marshall solid state I had before it.

It definately is just a hobby though, I'm not even close to a "professional". But it brings me alot of enjoyment.:yup

 

[Steve Frazier]

I do a bunch of different things, but only get to spend a little time on each one.

I like hunting and shooting, I've got a small range set up in the woods behind the house and basically hunt my property. I've got a small collection of firearms to use in these adventures.

I just got the Mustang I posted about this past summer and go on cruises with that now and then, and enter an occasional show. I joined a Mustang club one state over and they have meets now and then. It's a good group of people.

I go out to karaoke bars now and then too. I've been told I have a pretty good voice and I like singing country songs. It seems women tend to notice guys with good voices too!:angel

I'm involved in too many community service endeavors too. Sing in church choir, on the SPR committee there, volunteer firefighter, member of the local Republican Committee, and on the Town Planning Board. There's hardly time to sit here and check the Board!!

 

[atgreene]

Excavation pays for my fire fighting hobby. Besides being a full time fire fighter I also volunteer as deputy fire chief here in my hometown. I gave up the chiefs position a few years ago when my excavation business couldn't keep up with the cost of being chief (for real).

I have a 5 year old son, so lots of my former hobbies like hunting and fishing are waiting for him to get older.

I do collect rusty iron, my latest is a 1928 Ford Model A doodle bug and a John Deere B in pieces that needs reassembly. I promised myself that neither one is going to be touched until my barn/garage is completed.