List your other Hobbies/Interests

Continuing:

Fishing


Spraying things


Speaker building - 8 ft tall


8 ft. Long subwoofer with (4) 18 inch drivers


Driving fast cars

So sorry to hear that, Marty. I hope you can switch gears and get as much joy out of your current hobbies.

What instruments do you play?  What style of music?

I know a little about what you're going through, I have degenerative disk and as time goes by I find there's less and less I'm able to do anymore. Many of my previous hobbies have gone by the wayside because of it like collecting and restoring antique electric fans. Most weigh in at around 35 -45 pounds and I can't handle them because of it, that and the constant standing and bending to restore them mainly in prep and paint. Pipemaking now is even taking it's toll but, I grin and bear it as I'm sure you do because you like what you're doing. Keep on going sir because when we stop it's over.

Too lazy to empty the gun safes to post pictures, my ammo cellar has about 12,000 rounds from 9mm to .308, so I definitely need to work on upping that.

I like freebanding radio, when the skip is in with my President Lincoln chip switched and driven by my Texas star amp, I can make contacts all over the world.... able to listen in on some interesting gubmint channels too.
I have about 13 radios from mobile to base starions, most are not set up currently.

Camping, fishing, history buff, theology, I have a 1966 Williams "Hot Line" pinball machine that I need to restore.

What with all the smoking, drinking fine whiskys, chasing a bit of tail (when the mood strikes me ) AND feeding the cats...I hardly have time for another hobby.

I replied to this post earlier.

It has disappeared.

Mine aren't as good, but they are sure fun to hunt for.

Amozonite and smokey quartz.

Was big into photography for a while, did typical senior portraits and stuff, well long enough to pay for my equipment then concentrated mostly scenic/landscape. Not at home to access some of photos.
Do have a couple examples on phone.




Also kinda a history buff, civil war and WWII(European theater mainly but starting to study more in the Pacific theater lately)
I used to golf...A LOT single digit handicap for a while until my back went south on me and was a 190-200 average bowler again until my back made me give both up.

Let's try this again to see if it will post.
My wife says my first hobby and the one I probably miss not doing the most was serving in the U.S. Coast Guard for 21 years. Then one morning I woke up and said, "This isn't fun anymore." and retired. I was a photojournalist/public affairs specialist for most of my career so naturally photography and writing continued to be hobbies.

My next "hobby" was fishing. I love fishing so much I found a job as the editor of a monthly hunting and fishing magazine. What better way to enjoy a hobby than to get paid for doing it.

Living in the New Orleans area since 1989, I also picked up the "Mardi Gras" hobby and rode in one of the small local Mardi Gras Krewes (that's how they spell it) for 14 years. Basically it was a group of guys who would meet up several times a years to party, throw a fancy ball and then ride on top of parade floats throwing beads and stuff animals to people while in varying stages of being drunk. I had to quit after back surgery made it too painful

These days my hobbies are collecting pipes and pipe tobacco to a small extent. I only have about 50 pipes and about 30 of those are estate pipes we've found in antique/collectible shops. My wife enables the estate pipe collections by dragging me to these shops and saying, "Oh! Look at this pipe! They only want $20." She doesn't know about the hidden collection of tobacco.

Other than that, my wife says my main hobby seems to be irritating her and our 2 daughters. We have 2 sons and they are following in my footsteps with pipe smoking.
I also spend a lot of times training our 9 grandchildren to be irritating to their parents. I call it passing on to them what they did to us.

I'm also a pretty good cook and I have a collection of a couple dozen cook books. Even wrote a cooking column for a small paper for a year. You'll never see me on one of the cooking contest shows though because I think fancy plating is a waste of time for someone who normally just says, "Dinner is ready, plates are in the cabinet, serve yourself."

Oh! I blog. Forgot to add that. Every now and then I get the urge to blog about whatever happens to come to mind. I have written blogs about pipe smoking, cigars, going back to your high school reunion and a number of other subjects. My blogs can be found in two locations: jgcreativeservices.com/wordpress/ and macpappysworld.blogspot.com/

Did you get your user name from Kelly's Heroes?