Dmax wrote:

I've been spending a lot of time kayaking lately. I've got a few paddling trips planned already for this spring. I'm even thinking of heading down to the Houston area in a week or two. Warm weather and tight lines.

IMScotty wrote:

The 'Beer' thread got me thinking that some of us may share other hobbies and interests in addition to hiking and the outdoors. So here is the place to post it, maybe you will find another kindred spirit to share your love of Cosplay with, or what have you.

Here are my currently active pastimes...

Craft beer tasting
Genealogy (I research dead people)
Travel
Professional Candlepin Bowler (I once won the $2 pool in my league )
Aquarist (just getting back into it)
Sometimes an Ebay seller for fun and profit
Budding Mycophile (Just joined the Boston Mycological Club

And currently on the back burner due to a lack of time or money...

Craft Beer Brewing
Beekeeping (mites put me out of business for the moment)
Scuba Diving (I outgrew my wetsuit)

How about you? Any interesting hobbies or collections?

Rasty wrote:

Surf Kayaking
Woodworking
Drinking (Beer & Wine¹⁾

1. Scuppernog and muscadine are excluded
   

IMScotty wrote:

Dmax wrote:

I've been spending a lot of time kayaking lately. I've got a few paddling trips planned already for this spring. I'm even thinking of heading down to the Houston area in a week or two. Warm weather and tight lines.

Bought my wife a flat water Kayak last fall, she seems to enjoy it more than a canoe. Now I need to get a second one so we can go paddling together. I enjoy easy paddles to see the wildlife.

Rasty wrote:

Surf Kayaking

That looks like fun!

TrafficJam wrote:

My passions ... Knitting, weaving, spinning, cycling, and drinking.

Spinning and Weaving! I love to hear of people who keep traditional crafts alive. If you are ever in Lowell, MA you should check out the The American Textile History Museum. I found it interesting, anyway.
Candlepin Bowling = 'Little Balls' A much more interesting sport than ten pin (I am a bowling snob). You will have to come to New England or New Brunswick to try it out. But hurry, candlepin bowling is dying out.

Mycophile = Mushroom lover. I am just learning the ropes. Cannot wait till Spring comes to see what I can find.

Aquarist = I have fish tanks. Or at least I always had several in my youth. I just set up my first tank after several years without any, and I am very excited to see how it does.

JimBlue wrote:

Geneaology, found some ancestors back to the 1600s. Some, nothing past about 1930. Very expensive.

Beading, to get back to my Native American ancestors, and ancestry for that to.
beading.drivein-jim.net/

Ham radio, get on the air when it warms up, my shack still not insulated.
myhamradio.drivein-jim.net/

Make more maps for my Traveller and dungeons and dragons sites.
crestofastar.drivein-jim.net/

travellergame.drivein-jim.net/

Maybe start sewing my own costumes for science fiction conventions. Not to enter contests, just walk around looking cool.

Play more Everquest MMO, but its days may be numbered.

Drive-In movie theaters;
http:/www.drivein-jim.net/

arduino, LEDs, etc.
blinkstuff.drivein-jim.net/

I probably have too many hobbies.

Jim, let me know if you need any vital record look ups in Massachusetts. My fathers side goes back here quite a ways. One of my great grandmothers was Rebecca Nurse. My mothers side were Irish immigrants. I found the old family cellar hole in Ireland a few years ago.

Too bad most kids never get to know the joy of a Drive-In. I always meant to bring the family to the one in Milford, NH but now I have waited too long and they have all grown up. No one wants to go to the Drive-In with dad now

Just as I thought. There is an interesting bunch here on the Cafe.

Astro wrote:

TrafficJam wrote:

I'll give you three guesses.

My passions ... Knitting, weaving, spinning, cycling, and drinking.

Most recently, I've started sewing...browsing through fabric stores is a hobby in itself.

Currently, I've been active in yoga and strength building. I'll start back up with swimming and running in Spring. I suck at all of it but don't care.

"browsing through fabric stores is a hobby in itself." <- And a very expensive one too. Unfortunately I know first hand since my wife is a very serious quilter.

IMScotty wrote:

Jim, let me know if you need any vital record look ups in Massachusetts. My fathers side goes back here quite a ways. One of my great grandmothers was Rebecca Nurse. My mothers side were Irish immigrants. I found the old family cellar hole in Ireland a few years ago.

Too bad most kids never get to know the joy of a Drive-In. I always meant to bring the family to the one in Milford, NH but now I have waited too long and they have all grown up. No one wants to go to the Drive-In with dad now

Just as I thought. There is an interesting bunch here on the Cafe.

Drybones wrote:

Rasty wrote:

Surf Kayaking
Woodworking
Drinking (Beer & Wine¹⁾

1. Scuppernog and muscadine are excluded
   

Wood has paid the bills my entire life... started with pianos, then home furniture, kitchen cabinets, stair systems, and office furniture.

PaulMags wrote:

Cooking and eating said food with good friends
Craft beer..usually with good Pub Grub.
History (exploring the sites up close or reading about them)
Reading in general (Science, SF, history, historical fiction, outdoors, political)

For the outdoors, love remote car camping and Nordic skiing.

Tangent wrote:

My current hobbies are:
practicing music (violin, guitar, banjo, trombone, tuba, upright bass)
kayaking
fishing
hunting
weight training
cooking
professional beer drinking - just got a growler for the casual pint!)
woodworking - I mainly make conductor batons for band directors
carpentry

Tangent wrote:

My current hobbies are:
practicing music (violin, guitar, banjo, trombone, tuba, upright bass)
kayaking
fishing
hunting
weight training
cooking
professional beer drinking - just got a growler for the casual pint!)
woodworking - I mainly make conductor batons for band directors
carpentry

Foresight wrote:

TrafficJam wrote:

Thanks for the explanation, Scotty...those sound really cool. You're right, there's lots of interesting people here in the Cafe.

I was always an embarrassment to my kids when they were growing up. Back in the 90's, only grandmothers knitted, had looms in their dining rooms, and spinning wheels in the corners. Not many moms washed fleece in their kids' kiddie pools in the backyard. Now they think I'm pretty cool.

This is what I'm spinning right now. I think it's such a beautiful color, I have to share.

New trail name...."Spinster".

Drybones wrote:

Foresight wrote:

TrafficJam wrote:

Thanks for the explanation, Scotty...those sound really cool. You're right, there's lots of interesting people here in the Cafe.

I was always an embarrassment to my kids when they were growing up. Back in the 90's, only grandmothers knitted, had looms in their dining rooms, and spinning wheels in the corners. Not many moms washed fleece in their kids' kiddie pools in the backyard. Now they think I'm pretty cool.

This is what I'm spinning right now. I think it's such a beautiful color, I have to share.

New trail name...."Spinster".

I was thinking the same thing.

PaulMags wrote:

re: Italian roots

Perhaps, just a little.

pmags.com/musings-on-macaroni-and-sunday-gravy

socks wrote:

PaulMags wrote:

re: Italian roots

Perhaps, just a little.

pmags.com/musings-on-macaroni-and-sunday-gravy

enjoyed reading that Mags, thanks for sharing. Not long ago I was asked what my favorite fruit was, I said the orange, then thought for a minute and said "but I eat more tomatoes than oranges than tomatoes so I guess the tomatoes" Recently started making my own tomatoe sauce, fun stuff. I think one of the greatest things you can give someone is a sense of belonging, a history, and ancestry. Again, enjoyed reading that.

Tuckahoe wrote:

well let's see...

And not in any particular order

Knitting... and I have already scoped out two yarn shops in Dublin
Sewing
Cooking
Firearms and shooting
Cycling
Reading

I'd add history and blacksmithing, but that's also work

socks wrote:

Tuckahoe wrote:

well let's see...

And not in any particular order

Knitting... and I have already scoped out two yarn shops in Dublin
Sewing
Cooking
Firearms and shooting
Cycling
Reading

I'd add history and blacksmithing, but that's also work

Forgot you were across the pond Tuckahoe, have a great safe trip. One of the neatest things I've seen on-line is when you made that straw and clay hearth, charged with ore, and tapped it, that was awesome!

Tuckahoe wrote:

socks wrote:

Tuckahoe wrote:

well let's see...

And not in any particular order

Knitting... and I have already scoped out two yarn shops in Dublin
Sewing
Cooking
Firearms and shooting
Cycling
Reading

I'd add history and blacksmithing, but that's also work

Forgot you were across the pond Tuckahoe, have a great safe trip. One of the neatest things I've seen on-line is when you made that straw and clay hearth, charged with ore, and tapped it, that was awesome!

Not there just yet... A lil more than 200 days to go.

IMScotty wrote:

Dmax wrote:

I've been spending a lot of time kayaking lately. I've got a few paddling trips planned already for this spring. I'm even thinking of heading down to the Houston area in a week or two. Warm weather and tight lines.

Bought my wife a flat water Kayak last fall, she seems to enjoy it more than a canoe. Now I need to get a second one so we can go paddling together. I enjoy easy paddles to see the wildlife.

Rasty wrote:

Surf Kayaking

That looks like fun!

TrafficJam wrote:

My passions ... Knitting, weaving, spinning, cycling, and drinking.

Spinning and Weaving! I love to hear of people who keep traditional crafts alive. If you are ever in Lowell, MA you should check out the The American Textile History Museum. I found it interesting, anyway.
Candlepin Bowling = 'Little Balls' A much more interesting sport than ten pin (I am a bowling snob). You will have to come to New England or New Brunswick to try it out. But hurry, candlepin bowling is dying out.

Mycophile = Mushroom lover. I am just learning the ropes. Cannot wait till Spring comes to see what I can find.

Aquarist = I have fish tanks. Or at least I always had several in my youth. I just set up my first tank after several years without any, and I am very excited to see how it does.

JimBlue wrote:

Geneaology, found some ancestors back to the 1600s. Some, nothing past about 1930. Very expensive.

Beading, to get back to my Native American ancestors, and ancestry for that to.
beading.drivein-jim.net/

Ham radio, get on the air when it warms up, my shack still not insulated.
myhamradio.drivein-jim.net/

Make more maps for my Traveller and dungeons and dragons sites.
crestofastar.drivein-jim.net/

travellergame.drivein-jim.net/

Maybe start sewing my own costumes for science fiction conventions. Not to enter contests, just walk around looking cool.

Play more Everquest MMO, but its days may be numbered.

Drive-In movie theaters;
http:/www.drivein-jim.net/

arduino, LEDs, etc.
blinkstuff.drivein-jim.net/

I probably have too many hobbies.

Jim, let me know if you need any vital record look ups in Massachusetts. My fathers side goes back here quite a ways. One of my great grandmothers was Rebecca Nurse. My mothers side were Irish immigrants. I found the old family cellar hole in Ireland a few years ago.

Too bad most kids never get to know the joy of a Drive-In. I always meant to bring the family to the one in Milford, NH but now I have waited too long and they have all grown up. No one wants to go to the Drive-In with dad now

Just as I thought. There is an interesting bunch here on the Cafe.