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So what other hobbies do you like to engage in? It seems we have a fairly cosmopolitan membership here and, well I was feeling nosy
I've had quite a few over the years everything from model trains to fish keeping but at the moment my main interest is in Bushcraft and Woodlore. Bushcraft for me differs from camping as I light to travel light no fancy modern conveniences for me. My only concession to modern life is my tarp and sometimes a sleeping bag. Woodlore is learning skills of old like making a fire with a flint and steel or bow drill, building a shelter out of what you find in the woods, identifying edible plants and trapping you food in the wild, navigation by using signs in nature (sometime I cheat and use a map and compass )
Having recently moved back to the UK and the south west I'm planning a weekend winter camp out on Dartmoor. Something I've wanted to do for years.
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I guess you could say my hobby is golf. Been playing since I was 5, a lifetime ago I always say. It is the one thing I carried over through my transition. There was a time I was very good at it but age and lifestyle have a way of changing that. Still I don't do too bad for an old girl of 62.
I give you credit Michelle Diane for your "roughing it" style of camping but it is definitely not for me. My idea of roughing it on vacation is a place where I have to pick my tush up out of the lounger by the pool and go get my glass of wine because they won't bring it out to me.
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Diana Michelle wrote:I guess you could say my hobby is golf. Been playing since I was 5, a lifetime ago I always say. It is the one thing I carried over through my transition. There was a time I was very good at it but age and lifestyle have a way of changing that. Still I don't do too bad for an old girl of 62.
I give you credit Michelle Diane for your "roughing it" style of camping but it is definitely not for me. My idea of roughing it on vacation is a place where I have to pick my tush up out of the lounger by the pool and go get my glass of wine because they won't bring it out to me.
I think you and my wife would get on a treat. Her idea of camping comes from when she was a child and her parents went "camping" as she called it. Their tent was a fully appointed log cabin with all the comforts of home. I tried to get her to come on an overnighter in Anchorage AK I even suggested I go to REI and buy a real tent.....but no joy she's too much of a home comforts girl.
DonnaT wrote:Although I haven't done either for a couple of years, woodcarving and woodturning.
Spending time with the grand kids seemed more important.
Woodcarving! I envy you. I've just started to "butcher" a few stick into try-sticks to practice my cuts but there's a long way to go before I'm brave enough to show anything off. Yes you're so right the grand kids are more important.
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I can't really call it golf, but once a week my brother and I go to a local course and play "find the ball in the woods." As far as hobbies with no swearing involved, I do embroidery and I am struggling to learn the guitar. I used to draw and paint, but I haven't done much with them lately.
I retired recently , so hopefully I'll have more time for this stuff going forward. Oh, and bicycles. I like riding and tinkering with bikes. There are six of them in my basement right now, in varying states of readiness.
As far as camping goes, it's been years since I did an overnight backpacking trip. My wife used to go motorcycle tent camping with me, but after one particular debacle, she always found a reason not to go again. My son is bit of a hardcore hiker. He likes to hike in the dark. He has an infra red flashlight so it won't interfere with his night vision.
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Past hobbies have included bicycling, model building, model railroads, and various handgun matches. The past 20 years has been mostly photography, railroad history and exploration, birding, and off-roading.
April Rose wrote:I can't really call it golf, but once a week my brother and I go to a local course and play "find the ball in the woods."
I have always said anyone can make a par from the middle of the fairway. To truly be a golfer you have to make par from some of the places I have. I've seen places on golf courses even the greens keepers don't know about!
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Judging from where I spend all my time, I guess my hobbies are home and ground maintenance, errand running, and kitchen gruntwork.
It seems I spent a lot of time thinking about fishing and going to baseball games. I do like reading sf novels and history of math/science.
Use to golf a long time ago in a galaxy far away, but I didn't like that person that wrapped a seven iron around an innocent tree in uncontrollable rage, and haven't golfed since (would have to replace that iron). When I had better knees, spent a lot of time backpacking in the high rockies.
Kelly.
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My wife and I spent a lot of time camping when we were first married, sleeping on the ground, then came the tent and air mattress now our idea of roughing it is going to the cabin in the mountains with no internet.
As for golf I never could understand chasing that little white ball all over the place the cursing and frustration I always saw from people doing that.
My favorite hobby, as my wife put it to someone years ago "making toothpicks out of 2 x 4s", is wood working. Problem is I don't seem to be able to find time to do much of it with all the other responsibilities I have, what with working, trying to keep up my house and property and taking care of my aging ailing parents an their property I don't have much time for me.
Sarah Beth said, now our idea of roughing it is going to the cabin in the mountains with no internet.
You'd get on well with my wife. Our second year in North Carolina she decided she wanted to spend the weekend in the mountains. Now what I heard was " I want to spend the weekend camping in the mountains". Nah no such luck she had rented a cabin in the woods with a queen sized bed, satellite TV and a hot tub in the back yard. Now don't get me wrong it was a fantastic weekend but that's as close to nature as my wife wants to get. I bet she's never woken up in the dew covered morning to find a hedgehog asleep in her boot. My rough and ready camping isn't her thing and that's okay.
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Diana Michelle, you may be interested to know that that today, for the second week in a row, on the same hole, I bounced my drive off the armco steel barrier at the side of the fairway abutting a public road. Mind you, the fairway that I was aiming for is nearly 100 yards wide, and the armco barrier is 6 to 8 inches wide at most.
At least this time it bounced to the inside, instead of across the road.
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Diana Michelle wrote:My idea of roughing it on vacation is a place where I have to pick my tush up out of the lounger by the pool and go get my glass of wine because they won't bring it out to me.
I second that!
These days, I mostly just watch movies, TV, or NASCAR. I like board games, but can't get enough folks together at one time to make one interesting.
I used to play the guitar several hours a day, but now it's more like several times a year. Also find myself going to the rifle range a lot less that I used to as well.
We like to travel and scuba dive. Been all over the Caribbean and Central America plus Hawaii, Fiji and the Phillipines. Also we started beekeeping last year... love the honey.
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Lots of diverse hobbyists here. Here are some of mine. Model trains, Nj Railroad history,computers, sewing, cooking to name a few. I really like drawing and art. I also like mustangs but I had to sell mine 2 years ago so we could get money to move.
I like cooking. I like to find recipes where I can make as much "from scratch" as possible. It always seems to taste better that way, rather than using box mixes, canned sauces, etc. I figure its less expensive and healthier, too--without all the preservatives and added salt/sugar.
A typical evening for me is to come home, slip on a skirt, blouse/sweater, nylons, cute flats and a pretty apron and start cooking. My wife will spend the time that I'm cooking working outdoors--mowing the lawn, splitting wood, gardening, etc. We really don't fit into the gender norms at all.
Lately I've been doing more baking, and finally perfected a nice flaky pie crust like my grandmother used to make. Life is good.
I have always said anyone can make a par from the middle of the fairway. To truly be a golfer you have to make par from some of the places I have. 
