What are your other hobbies?

[M-P]

Howdy,   Osage Outlaw started a cool thread asking about day jobs.    Now what have you got to say about hobbies other than making bows.   Yeah I know, bows, hunting and fishing and knapping.   What else is there?

Well for me there's martial arts (Aikido), bonsai (I'm tempted to make a really little bow if one of my trees dies), vegetable gardening, music (clarinets, tenor sax, recorders, mountain dulcimer), cabinetry and remodeling.  Oh and reading!
Ron

[osage outlaw]

I am a fairly decent golfer.  I played my best 9 holes ever last year at 2 over par   Before I got married, I was into a lot of sports leagues; bowling, softball, and 2 different basketball leagues.  I enjoy reading but most of my books are either bowbuilding/knapping or native american related.  Really, if I'm not doing something bow related, I'm spending time with the wife and kids.  I don't have much time for anything else.

[cracker]

Blacksmithing,fishing, making stuff go fast pull hard or slop around in the mud, cooking I'm actually pretty good at it, got a fifteen foot jon boat with a 25hp motor pretty fast with just me and a tank of gas lots of grins there.Ron

[beetlebailey1977]

Landscaping, taking care of our property (pine plantation), playing farmer on my tractor for the wildlife, used to coonhunt but put that on the backburner for now (with my young boys taking up my time), love to duck hunt and turkey hunt, working on my truck, collecting books, and skeet and trap shooting.

[seabass]

i do alot of bowfishing.i am a carp killer.i also collect guns and antique fishing gear.i work alot so that is about all i have time for.good thread by the way,Steve

[lowell]

Other than making bows from WOOD.... I like to make anything I can think of out of wood. 

 With 2 grandkids I have made wood blocks, a shadow box for a small bow and arrows for grandson,  an airplane swing for hanging in a tree, built a custom door for a tree house, a doll cradle, a rocking horse.... made 2 small canoes (10-12 inches long} a couple weeks ago just to see if I could ....and just for my kicks.......I'm working on a klopotec

  I like to cook too...smoke meat, grill, wood fired pizza!!!!... and eat!!

  I always have a trail camera out...and will look for shed antlers tomorrow with my son.

[osage outlaw]

Lowell, I'm taking my son out shed hunting tomorrow too.  Good luck.




Can I ad making tiny bows and arrows from office supplies to my list   This little thing is wicked.

[criveraville]

Good thread Ron. Most of my time is taken up with work (school), but on my free free time I love spending time with the family. Fishing, camping, cooking, and working in the yard. We collect and gather flint together with is a lot of fun.

I make wooden crosses. All types and shapes out of all different types of wood. I love to read, but don't get to much. Hunting takes a lot of my free time because I spend that time with Diego. I write for fun. Short stories. I like cooking and gardening. Love going to church with the family.

Cipriano

[Jimbob]

Other than flintknapping, I enjoy spending time with the family, fishing, hunting and throwing the ball for my labrador.

[JW_Halverson]

I put in about 30 hours a week working with birds of prey and giving wildlife education programs at local schools, civic organizations, sportsman's groups, weddings, bar mitzvahs, and birthday parties.  I get to gut rats and mice, de-yolk day old chicks, scrape bird poop, an get bit by a great horned owl that is coming to trust me one bite at a time.  I do fundraising, public relations, blog, write e-newsletter articles, and anything else to keep this tiny little non-profit needs.  All for no pay.

Hopefully soon this organization will have aditional volunteer staff to give me the time to become an apprentice to one of our local falconers.  The knowledge is invaluable for the non-profit, of course.  But hunting a redtail hawk on cottontails makes me all kinds of excited!

I also like long walks on the beach, intimate candlelit dinners, and poking dead things with a stick. 

[M-P]

JW As a only somewhat reformed Hawker I can say that catching rabbits with a bird you trained is a thrill that few other things can match.   Falconry is a full time life style though.  You and the bird both do best with a routine of daily hunting.   I, sadly, no longer have time or daily access to adequate hunting spots.   Good luck though.   Ron

[M-P]

Osage Outlaw,  Congratulations with the golf score.  I could never get into it, though my Dad was really good.   I tended to spend all my time looking for lost balls.   I now joke that I was training for cryptorchid surgeries.   (That's really an obscure "in" joke.  Look up cryptorchid and it should become obvious.)    Ron

[osage outlaw]

Osage Outlaw,  Congratulations with the golf score.  I could never get into it, though my Dad was really good.   I tended to spend all my time looking for lost balls.   I now joke that I was training for cryptorchid surgeries.   (That's really an obscure "in" joke.  Look up cryptorchid and it should become obvious.)    Ron

That's funny.  In 12 days I'm having my vas deferens disconnected      Guess I'll be shooting blunts from now on 

[gstoneberg]

Welcome to the club.  I fancied myself a golfer for awhile, but then reality set in.  I flew radio controlled model airplanes for years, but got tired of it.  The  only thing (besides hunting and archery) I have done my entire life is singing in church.  Love it.

George

[DustinDees]

Great thread. Past hobbies include, Tesla coils, jacobs ladders and anything i could find super high voltage. The obvious ones are making bows, flint knapping and making arrows. Lately lots of reading and drawing. Just purchased everything i need to start bladesmithing when i get off of this smelly island and back home. Have not been on in ~9 months because the sat. com internet blocks "weapons related sites" now i have my own 3g stick and can once again add perusing P.A. to my list. 

Dustin D