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So other than hunting what do you enjoy doing? I am not talking about spending time with family or going to church, I mean like your hobbies. Many of you know I am a picture taker (I don't feel I have earned the right to be called a photographer yet) I am a Ham Radio Operator, I collect sports cards (Or did before all the controversy.) and am trying to get some stuff together to start camping again at some level. I would like to hear about and see what you are into other than hunting and fishing.

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Two of the French Connection, I still need to get  Rick Martin
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This is my Ham Radio HF Rig.
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Cool stuff ,  I collect old archery stuff . Being in peoples attics a lot , I run across a few old recurves etc that people have stored up there . Most folks just give them to me when I ask to buy them . I've got a really nice broad head collection along the way also , over a 100 different heads on display .

Great hobbies Steve...nice card collection. I see you have 2 famous Buffalo Sabres, Gilbert Perreault, and Rene' Robert. They played with Richard Martin, the 3 were known as the French Connection. One of the best lines in NHL hockey history. I played hockey all my life, just retired 4 years ago. If I had Rick Martins card, I would send it to you. Nice hobbies there......

I am a little bit of a gym rat. Workout at least 5-6 times a week. Between that and home improvement projects, vehicle maintenance, killing a half dozen or so deer in the fall and processing them, cutting firewood on my property and my actual job, well I haven't been bored for years. That and being so good-looking is a full-time job in and of itself.

Good for you Happy the best thing to do is to stay active.

Quote from: Happy on July 08, 2023, 08:27:09 AM
being so good-looking is a full-time job in and of itself.

Happy I wont say you lie as that is a very strong word and who am I to judge but I will say you might be reckless with the truth! I have to ask, the person who told you that you were "Good Looking" did they have a seeing eye dog and a red and white cane by chance!
:TooFunny:

They have always said I have the perfect face for radio. . But I still have all my teeth, and in my neck of the woods that already takes you to a 7 out of 10.

make custom game calls, (turkey, deer and duck) and do woodburning and woodcarving and collect canes and walking sticks.

My hobby is aggravating Tom007, Turkeybutt, tal, happy and others on this forum ...  :TooFunny:   Including some of the call builders on the forum... :TooFunny:

General consensus shows you are very good at it Greg!

Quote from: Greg Massey on July 08, 2023, 10:00:23 AM
My hobby is aggravating Tom007, Turkeybutt, tal, happy and others on this forum ...  :TooFunny:   Including some of the call builders on the forum... :TooFunny:

We still luv ya though, you keep us all in line......

I started collecting Case knives back in the 80's and have some good ones, i.e. Shark tooth, Hammerhead and Mako plus a Sidewinder or two. All new, still in the box. Have a few Case fixed blades as well that I'm proud of. In the last several years I started collecting Barminski knives. Great knife but in the last few years their price as doubled or tripled.
Up until 10 years ago I had some muscle cars, but I sold them all.
Since I have bow hunted for 45 years or so I recently started a broad-head collection both fixed and mechanical broad-heads. Right now this is about the only thing I collect. If anybody has any old, new or used ones laying around and you want to get rid of them let me know.
Here are some photos of the cars I owned and had put away.

Another one I redid but I never finished the engine before I gave it to my brother in law.

Quote from: Howieg on July 08, 2023, 02:50:58 AM
Cool stuff ,  I collect old archery stuff . Being in peoples attics a lot , I run across a few old recurves etc that people have stored up there . Most folks just give them to me when I ask to buy them . I've got a really nice broad head collection along the way also , over a 100 different heads on display .

Thank you. That's neat, I would very much liked to get a Bear Kodiak takedown one day, just because that is what Fred Bear used. Loved reading his stuff and about him when I got into archer as well as Howard Hill, Ishi, Glenn St. Charles and others. Trailing a Bear was a very good one as was a book that was by a gentleman with the last name Ellis though I can't recall the title.

Quote from: Tom007 on July 08, 2023, 07:22:28 AM
Great hobbies Steve...nice card collection. I see you have 2 famous Buffalo Sabres, Gilbert Perreault, and Rene' Robert. They played with Richard Martin, the 3 were known as the French Connection. One of the best lines in NHL hockey history. I played hockey all my life, just retired 4 years ago. If I had Rick Martins card, I would send it to you. Nice hobbies there......

I never learned to skate, was just never around it much. My father played part of a season with the NY Giants as a DT so we were a football family. MY grandfather also played semi-pro football for the local team the Lockport Esso's This is his team championship picture from 1937. He is in the second row and second from the left as you are looking at the photo (https://i.imgur.com/ThY5t30.jpg)

Quote from: Happy on July 08, 2023, 08:27:09 AM
I am a little bit of a gym rat. Workout at least 5-6 times a week. Between that and home improvement projects, vehicle maintenance, killing a half dozen or so deer in the fall and processing them, cutting firewood on my property and my actual job, well I haven't been bored for years. That and being so good-looking is a full-time job in and of itself.

I was working out a lot before I blew my shoulder out and then tore my right bicep, I remember the second very well, was in the gym in Kingfisher, OK where my sister lived and was doing some curls and wanted to push to the point of exhaustion and I felt it pop, I knew right away what happened from all the old Muscle and Fitness Magazines I used to read. They could not reattach it so I only have half a bicep on the right side, no more are wresting for me! This may sound strange to you but I truly do miss being able to do firewood, when I was a teenager my father was union construction but in the Winter there would be no jobs so we supplemented our income by delivering firewood. I look back on those times with fond memories now that I am older even though I hated it back then. I wish I were good with tools like you, my friends have a saying though, "Friends don't let Steve play with tools" I am pretty useless with them, I can't even hammer a nail straight. My father could use any tool you handed him.

Quote from: caneman on July 08, 2023, 09:30:40 AM
make custom game calls, (turkey, deer and duck) and do woodburning and woodcarving and collect canes and walking sticks.

I know I have enjoyed the kit calls I have made, even if I did make some mistakes on the last ones I made. There are some nice walking sticks out there, I had one with a coyote leg on it, left it in the back of the truck by mistake and that was that, went back and found it smashed all over the place.

Quote from: Greg Massey on July 08, 2023, 10:00:23 AM
My hobby is aggravating Tom007, Turkeybutt, tal, happy and others on this forum ...  :TooFunny:   Including some of the call builders on the forum... :TooFunny:

I have often said that if I could get paid for aggravating people I would be a millionaire.

Quote from: Turkeybutt on July 08, 2023, 10:18:06 AM
General consensus shows you are very good at it Greg!

lol

Quote from: Tom007 on July 08, 2023, 10:19:22 AM

Quote from: Greg Massey on July 08, 2023, 10:00:23 AM
My hobby is aggravating Tom007, Turkeybutt, tal, happy and others on this forum ...  :TooFunny:   Including some of the call builders on the forum... :TooFunny:

We still luv ya though, you keep us all in line......

Aww ain't that sweet pa? Quote from a movie, I do not recall which, think it was a Clint Eastwood flick.

Quote from: Turkeybutt on July 08, 2023, 10:44:56 AM
I started collecting Case knives back in the 80's and have some good ones, i.e. Shark tooth, Hammerhead and Mako plus a Sidewinder or two. All new, still in the box. Have a few Case fixed blades as well that I'm proud of. In the last several years I started collecting Barminski knives. Great knife but in the last few years their price as doubled or tripled.
Up until 10 years ago I had some muscle cars, but I sold them all.
Since I have bow hunted for 45 years or so I recently started a broad-head collection both fixed and mechanical broad-heads. Right now this is about the only thing I collect. If anybody has any old, new or used ones laying around and you want to get rid of them let me know.
Here are some photos of the cars I owned and had put away.

The El Camino* is one of the very few GM vehicles I have ever actually liked. the 57 Chevy being another. I love my MOPAR's I know Ford had it's version of the El Camino but I do not recall the name, Rancharo maybe? I would love to have a 70 Hemi Cuda convertible but there were not many made, love the GTX (The Elephant) as well. I have been looking at a lot of 30's 40's and 50's cars and trucks lately, so much more style to them than what you see today. The Mennonite I drive for always talks about the old Case Trapper knife he had for skinning and all, I tried looking them up but I do not know what is what because they have so many versions now. I would like to get him one for CHRISTmas this year if I can. I was not familiar with Barminski knives, thought I was but they turned out to be something totally different.

Quote from: Turkeybutt on July 08, 2023, 10:44:56 AM
I started collecting Case knives back in the 80's and have some good ones, i.e. Shark tooth, Hammerhead and Mako plus a Sidewinder or two. All new, still in the box. Have a few Case fixed blades as well that I'm proud of. In the last several years I started collecting Barminski knives. Great knife but in the last few years their price as doubled or tripled.
Up until 10 years ago I had some muscle cars, but I sold them all.
Since I have bow hunted for 45 years or so I recently started a broad-head collection both fixed and mechanical broad-heads. Right now this is about the only thing I collect. If anybody has any old, new or used ones laying around and you want to get rid of them let me know.
Here are some photos of the cars I owned and had put away.

Beauties there!

I like building things out of wood.  Currently doing a deck for my grandson's above ground pool.  Have benches for my office in my shop that are next on deck.  When we built our house last year, I:
a)made end tables and a coffee table from live edge  pecan that fell from the hurricane Michael.  I sat it to the side and let it sit for over a year before getting it sawn.  It is spalted and very nice looking wood. Also made a cutting board from it and a bench on my front porch.
b) had an eastern red cedar taken out by the same storm.  Had it sawn in a large enough size that I made a mantle for over my fireplace.  Still has the limb edges and has both heart and sap wood.
c) same cedar I made a headboard for our guest room.  This took the most figuring and thinking, but it looks real simple.  It was once I had a plan (I don't have a jointer or a planer). 
d)made a farm table for the house out of yellow pine - stained the top and distress painted the legs.  Came out nice. Made a entry table to match it. 

I also  like to smoke meat.  Ribs and butts are  my favorite.  Gonna try a chuck next.  We will see how it turns out.  Even catered one of my employee's wedding (you talk about stress!).  It came out good though.  Sliced and pulled butt. 

I am a metal head in all ways. Music and I like to build/ rebuild stuff, I was a welder for a long time, but just act like one on the weekends. I also shoot trap competitively, our used to be competitive, lol. I make pot calls and am doing R&D on a mini box call, it will be a while. Z

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some cool stuff!

Quote from: Sir-diealot on July 08, 2023, 01:00:46 AM
So other than hunting what do you enjoy doing? I am not talking about spending time with family or going to church, I mean like your hobbies. Many of you know I am a picture taker (I don't feel I have earned the right to be called a photographer yet) I am a Ham Radio Operator, I collect sports cards (Or did before all the controversy.) and am trying to get some stuff together to start camping again at some level. I would like to hear about and see what you are into other than hunting and fishing.

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Two of the French Connection, I still need to get  Rick Martin
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This is my Ham Radio HF Rig.
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Do hf almost every day in my job with the Marine Corps.

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Very nice looking work g8rvet

 g8rvet that is some good looking furniture you made. Better than what you see in most furniture stores these days!

It started with one..I have 4 now,working on putting one back together now.All are 110s but I have a 69,65 and two 66s

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I like to flintknap, I make stone arrowheads and spearpoints.  I have hunted for ancient stone tools for a long time
& have a decent collection of points that date from as recently as ~1750 to as old as ~11,000 B.C.. As too many of the
fields I used to hunt in got developed or no longer deep plowed for growing tobacco,
I decided to learn how to make stone points myself.  I figured that if ancient man could do it, how hard could it be?
Well, I didn't take into account that ancient man was raised having to learn stone working in order to survive.  They
could gather quality knapping rock from anywhere they chose, which is not the case in today's world.
They also had the luxury of having elders in the tribe to show them how to do it...I did not.This was 25 years before the internet. 
It took me about 3 years to make a properly made replica.  I have done dozens of knapping demonstrations at rock shows,
for archaeologists, the N.C. Wildlife Department on National Hunting & Fishing Day, and even taught knapping at summer classes
at a local college & to private individuals.

I tired hunting turkeys with points I'd made, but never got it done.  I was injured in a car crash 16 years ago
(T-boned by a drunk driver running 70 MPH), which ended my bow shooting career.  I was hired to make a half dozen
hunting points by a local hunter who paid me quite well to do it.  I ended up making him 8 points, so he had a couple
spares to practice with.  It took a long time to balance them out and even out their weights.  He has taken several deer
(2 bucks and a doe with the same point!), and missed a bear with the points I made him.

I have pics of some I made on another computer that I'll add tomorrow.  The pics of the hunting points vanished in a
computer crash about 10 years ago.

Jim

Only other serious hobby I do is fly fishing for trout and catch crappie to eat.

Besides the normal stuff of grilling, hunting other things, fishing, etc, I love riding gravel on my bike. I try to do 10 miles a day minimum while the weather is nice. I got sucked into the VFD my brother is the chief of. I have wired in 3 LED lightbars, and a pile of surface mount LEDs since the first of the year. I also wrench on our firetrucks. Had to replace a fan clutch and alternator on our 98 Chevy 3500. We are still waiting to get the new motor dropped in the 2000 F350. I  make alot of calls as well and I am a former career firefighter so they appreciate the trained help. I am also a beekeeper and recently started making Mead. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/fc437769b79017a95754cfc0d20a879c.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/8d809a358894df4a91b747b30a174143.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/5f37fed12b9169213990f06636713cdc.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/12f5a3039d5923b1dc196127931eb2e5.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/ba66e833baca982c5b88316da7f1cf45.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/23c79ebfd0921ca2d235520ec871066e.jpg)

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Quote from: g8rvet on July 08, 2023, 12:59:03 PM
I like building things out of wood.  Currently doing a deck for my grandson's above ground pool.  Have benches for my office in my shop that are next on deck.  When we built our house last year, I:
a)made end tables and a coffee table from live edge  pecan that fell from the hurricane Michael.  I sat it to the side and let it sit for over a year before getting it sawn.  It is spalted and very nice looking wood. Also made a cutting board from it and a bench on my front porch.
b) had an eastern red cedar taken out by the same storm.  Had it sawn in a large enough size that I made a mantle for over my fireplace.  Still has the limb edges and has both heart and sap wood.
c) same cedar I made a headboard for our guest room.  This took the most figuring and thinking, but it looks real simple.  It was once I had a plan (I don't have a jointer or a planer). 
d)made a farm table for the house out of yellow pine - stained the top and distress painted the legs.  Came out nice. Made a entry table to match it. 

I also  like to smoke meat.  Ribs and butts are  my favorite.  Gonna try a chuck next.  We will see how it turns out.  Even catered one of my employee's wedding (you talk about stress!).  It came out good though.  Sliced and pulled butt.

Some nice looking creations there bud, you are good at it. I enjoyed what little woodwork I got to do when I was you, lots of fun and prideful in a good way when something you have worked on turns our and works well. My butt is feeling pulled right now, darn sciatic nerve that's what I get for walking around taking pictures today and sitting by damp stone by a waterfall. I will have to reply to everyone else tomorrow, I have to get out of this office chair.

Quote from: WV Ridge Reaper on July 08, 2023, 04:18:28 PM
It started with one..I have 4 now,working on putting one back together now.All are 110s but I have a 69,65 and two 66s

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Need any parts ??

I've got a rough 110 or 112 that's complete and another body and possibly a hood laying here.

For many years I dug and collected old bottles. As I got older and with no places left to dig I started to lose interest asked my daughter if she was interested in the collection and she was not so sold most. I then took up fly fishing which has become my passion, actually spey casting for steelhead. Fly fishing then creates side hobbies like fly tying. Now that I am getting into Euro nymphing I have a need to create leaders. Other than that sampling fine bourbon is a pursuit I like to engage.

Now that I'm retired, I can pursue all the "other things" than I had very limited windows for when working.

Obvious to many here, I have an affinity for accumulating box calls.

My brother and I operate a small, family Christmas tree farm.

Just the mowing and maintaining here at the house is half a full-time job.

Mowing fields, roads and doing habitat improvement on the family property could be a full-time job if I let it.

Love bowhunting mature whitetails.

Love trapping nest predators.

Like to hunt bourbon on occasion and sip it more often than that.

Chunk-N-Dale dancer at some local retirement homes for widowers. Forum rules prevent me from posting pictures.   It's kind of degrading, but the tips are good. 

I restore Old Triumph Motorcycles.

Quote from: guesswho on July 09, 2023, 08:21:34 PM
Forum rules prevent me from posting pictures.   

THANK you, Shannon !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Quote from: Vintage on July 09, 2023, 08:25:45 PM
I restore Old Triumph Motorcycles.

Real nice job! Looks great

Quote from: guesswho on July 09, 2023, 08:21:34 PM
Chunk-N-Dale dancer at some local retirement homes for widowers. Forum rules prevent me from posting pictures.   It's kind of degrading, but the tips are good.

I started at the nursing home but the ladies at the senior citizen center tip better and they can still drive.  You should look into it. :goofball:

Quote from: guesswho on July 09, 2023, 08:21:34 PM
Chunk-N-Dale dancer at some local retirement homes for widowers. Forum rules prevent me from posting pictures.   It's kind of degrading, but the tips are good.

Probably tough keeping a steady rhythm to Perry Como and the big band sound

Quote from: zelmo1 on July 08, 2023, 01:03:15 PM
I am a metal head in all ways. Music and I like to build/ rebuild stuff, I was a welder for a long time, but just act like one on the weekends. I also shoot trap competitively, our used to be competitive, lol. I make pot calls and am doing R&D on a mini box call, it will be a while. Z

I never had the eyes for welding, had 5 surgeries on them when I was young, I know there was good money to be made in it at one time back in the 70's-80's though. Only really shot trap with friends but enjoyed running the Sporting Clays trailer for my club for a season though, I really liked shooting the rabbits. Can't wait to see that box call.

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Quote from: Sir-diealot on July 08, 2023, 01:00:46 AM
So other than hunting what do you enjoy doing? I am not talking about spending time with family or going to church, I mean like your hobbies. Many of you know I am a picture taker (I don't feel I have earned the right to be called a photographer yet) I am a Ham Radio Operator, I collect sports cards (Or did before all the controversy.) and am trying to get some stuff together to start camping again at some level. I would like to hear about and see what you are into other than hunting and fishing.



This is my Ham Radio HF Rig.

Do hf almost every day in my job with the Marine Corps.

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Slightly different frequencies I would imagine but still a lot of fun. I am having problems with a mic right now, hope to get it figured out soon, sounding very muffled, I think it has a bad transmit button on it because I can hear and feel something wrong and everybody says I sound muffled.

Quote from: WV Ridge Reaper on July 08, 2023, 04:18:28 PM
It started with one..I have 4 now,working on putting one back together now.All are 110s but I have a 69,65 and two 66s

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I have some friends that collect them or did collect them, I THINK they were Massey Ferguson's and I do not recall the other one but had a few different colored lines in a pattern as they emblem. I think it was meant to look like the front of a tractor when they still had 3 wheels. Looks like you put a lot of love into them.

Quote from: Cut N Run on July 08, 2023, 08:55:55 PM
I like to flintknap, I make stone arrowheads and spearpoints.  I have hunted for ancient stone tools for a long time
& have a decent collection of points that date from as recently as ~1750 to as old as ~11,000 B.C.. As too many of the
fields I used to hunt in got developed or no longer deep plowed for growing tobacco,
I decided to learn how to make stone points myself.  I figured that if ancient man could do it, how hard could it be?
Well, I didn't take into account that ancient man was raised having to learn stone working in order to survive.  They
could gather quality knapping rock from anywhere they chose, which is not the case in today's world.
They also had the luxury of having elders in the tribe to show them how to do it...I did not.This was 25 years before the internet. 
It took me about 3 years to make a properly made replica.  I have done dozens of knapping demonstrations at rock shows,
for archaeologists, the N.C. Wildlife Department on National Hunting & Fishing Day, and even taught knapping at summer classes
at a local college & to private individuals.

I tired hunting turkeys with points I'd made, but never got it done.  I was injured in a car crash 16 years ago
(T-boned by a drunk driver running 70 MPH), which ended my bow shooting career.  I was hired to make a half dozen
hunting points by a local hunter who paid me quite well to do it.  I ended up making him 8 points, so he had a couple
spares to practice with.  It took a long time to balance them out and even out their weights.  He has taken several deer
(2 bucks and a doe with the same point!), and missed a bear with the points I made him.

I have pics of some I made on another computer that I'll add tomorrow.  The pics of the hunting points vanished in a
computer crash about 10 years ago.

Jim

I have always wanted to find an arrow head but never have, the area I live in had many tribes here (Finger Lakes The Iroquois tribes) so it would seem like a area to find them but I never have. My country has been so developed and used for agriculture that the likelihood of finding anything is pretty unlikely. I recently saw or read something about how the nappers would get the stones wet or let them soak for a while so they would work better, something I had not realized before. Neat that your heads have taken game.

Quote from: Hook hanger on July 08, 2023, 09:43:03 PM
Only other serious hobby I do is fly fishing for trout and catch crappie to eat.

Nothing wrong with that, I have to pick up my license tomorrow, thought I had it but I do not and I am supposed to go out on a boat this week to take some pictures of a falls that can only bee seen from the water but it is supposed to thunderstorm all week so I don't think that will work out.

Quote from: nativeks on July 08, 2023, 10:08:23 PM
Besides the normal stuff of grilling, hunting other things, fishing, etc, I love riding gravel on my bike. I try to do 10 miles a day minimum while the weather is nice. I got sucked into the VFD my brother is the chief of. I have wired in 3 LED lightbars, and a pile of surface mount LEDs since the first of the year. I also wrench on our firetrucks. Had to replace a fan clutch and alternator on our 98 Chevy 3500. We are still waiting to get the new motor dropped in the 2000 F350. I  make alot of calls as well and I am a former career firefighter so they appreciate the trained help. I am also a beekeeper and recently started making Mead. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/fc437769b79017a95754cfc0d20a879c.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/8d809a358894df4a91b747b30a174143.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/5f37fed12b9169213990f06636713cdc.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/12f5a3039d5923b1dc196127931eb2e5.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/ba66e833baca982c5b88316da7f1cf45.jpg)(https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20230709/23c79ebfd0921ca2d235520ec871066e.jpg)

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One of the biggest heartbreaks for me with my last car accident is that I can no longer ride a bike, man I love riding bikes, I could go forever on a bike. I used to take great pride in the fact that I was able to ride up a hill in the area that nobody else could and I got to where I could do it with ease. Not even the Mennonites in the area Could ride up that hill. Me and my GT Timberline, I so miss that bike and the fun we had. I never cared for riding gravel though, I am a walking accident and it seemed to transfer to bikes too. I donned a saying among my friends "Fat man can fly" as I went flying off the bike so often, well maybe not often but when a 300lbs. dude goes flying through the air it makes an impression on both the psyche and the ground he lands on! There was an imprint of my face and glasses in the mud where I wiped out once for quite some time, it even dried that way. Me and tools just don't go hand in hand, I am not good with them at all. I joined the Fireman's Auxiliary here, figured i have had to be taken by ambulance or extricated from vehicles so many times I owed something back but since I can't be a fireman I could do that. I will leave the bees to you, I am allergic to them.

Quote from: NCL on July 09, 2023, 01:17:47 PM
For many years I dug and collected old bottles. As I got older and with no places left to dig I started to lose interest asked my daughter if she was interested in the collection and she was not so sold most. I then took up fly fishing which has become my passion, actually spey casting for steelhead. Fly fishing then creates side hobbies like fly tying. Now that I am getting into Euro nymphing I have a need to create leaders. Other than that sampling fine bourbon is a pursuit I like to engage.

My father had several of them when I was growing up. I remember finding an old foundation from a house in the woods of my neighbors and there were all kinds of glass, we took them not realizing they may have sentimental value to the neighbor and my father made us take them all back and put them where we found them. Now that I am older and understand better I am glad he did, it was the right thing to do and we shouldn't have removed them. It is sad when nobody wants the stuff we love when we want to pass them down, I have all these turkey calls and my nephews do not hunt and have no interest in hunting though I tried the best I could from out of state to get them into it. My GF has instructions to list them all here if I die with the help of our friend Jim, I would rather see them sold to people that would want them then to go in the trash barrel.

Quote from: Yoder409 on July 09, 2023, 07:40:40 PM
Now that I'm retired, I can pursue all the "other things" than I had very limited windows for when working.

Obvious to many here, I have an affinity for accumulating box calls.

My brother and I operate a small, family Christmas tree farm.

Just the mowing and maintaining here at the house is half a full-time job.

Mowing fields, roads and doing habitat improvement on the family property could be a full-time job if I let it.

Love bowhunting mature whitetails.

Love trapping nest predators.

Like to hunt bourbon on occasion and sip it more often than that.

Sounds like a great way to live life to me.

Quote from: guesswho on July 09, 2023, 08:21:34 PM
Chunk-N-Dale dancer at some local retirement homes for widowers. Forum rules prevent me from posting pictures.   It's kind of degrading, but the tips are good.

Rumor has it the event takes place outside and they didn't hire you for the dancing, they hired you for the shade. The tips are to help create more shade.

Quote from: Vintage on July 09, 2023, 08:25:45 PM
I restore Old Triumph Motorcycles.

I remember my cousin getting a Triumph back in the 80's Man was that a bad move for him in the crowd we hung out in, he got picked on continually about "That damn Limey bike" They all had Harley's or Indian's so something non American was a no-no. He worked on that thing for a long time, if I recall he had a very hard time getting I think it was points for it, but as I said in another reply I am not at all good with tools or mechanical so I can very well have that wrong. Turned out being a nice running and looking bike for him, I can still see him going down the road with his Bible under the seat straps his guitar standing straight up in the air strapped to the sissy bar and his trench coat flying behind him. Pauly is an odd little fellow even to this day. Nice looking bike by the way.

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Quote from: Yoder409 on July 09, 2023, 07:40:40 PM
Now that I'm retired, I can pursue all the "other things" than I had very limited windows for when working.

Obvious to many here, I have an affinity for accumulating box calls.

My brother and I operate a small, family Christmas tree farm.

Just the mowing and maintaining here at the house is half a full-time job.

Mowing fields, roads and doing habitat improvement on the family property could be a full-time job if I let it.

Love bowhunting mature whitetails.

Love trapping nest predators.

Like to hunt bourbon on occasion and sip it more often than that.

Sounds like a great way to live life to me.

It's early on........   But it's workin' out, so far.

I love camping, hiking, and backpacking. We go on a couple trips a year as a family to a state park somewhere. I play guitar and do some woodworking stuff which I'm way behind on right now.
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Other than watching my kids and their sports which almost year round I enjoy doing triathlons but my main love is biking whether it be a road or gravel ride.

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I love camping, hiking, and backpacking. We go on a couple trips a year as a family to a state park somewhere. I play guitar and do some woodworking stuff which I'm way behind on right now.
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I am trying to get back into camping, I will not be able to sleep on the ground anymore, those days are over for me, but I am slowly getting things together. One thing I will have to get is a small power source to power my oxygen and C-Pap machines though. I found one I think I like, now just to get it. I was looking at hammock setups but since I am a walking accident I am not so sure that is a good idea. I can play a little Electric Bass Guitar, very little though, just a 3 bar boogie, smoke in the water, taught myself to play The Star Spangled Banner using octaves but that was a long time ago.

Quote from: idratherb on July 10, 2023, 08:50:10 AM
Other than watching my kids and their sports which almost year round I enjoy doing triathlons but my main love is biking whether it be a road or gravel ride.

I so miss riding my mountain bike, it was not an expensive one, just a GT Timberline but man I lover that bike, lot of good memories and gave birth to the phrase "Fat man can fly"

I grow heirloom tomatoes,

Quote from: Gooserbat on July 22, 2023, 10:58:01 AM
I grow heirloom tomatoes,

They'll mean so much to the great-grandchildren in the future. lol

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