What’s Your Other Hobby

Hey Bill - did you get the beans and bulllets message??  Its a good book 

My main hobbies are modeling, RC trucks and airplanes, detailing full-size vehicles, and shooting guns. I also enjoy spending time with my family. We enjoy camping in our small 5th wheel camper. I also consider mowing the grass one of my getaways, LOL! I put on a podcast or an audiobook and enjoy some "me time" for about 2.5 hrs.

HooYah Deep Sea

Keavdog, then you remember when fire swept from near Ramona, all the way down the Barona Valley and then all the way down Wild Cat Canyon. It was one of the very few time the casino actually closed.

 

ya, there were two that I recall.  The Cedar fire and the Witch Creek fire.  I was in Scripps Ranch in 2003 when the Cedar fire burned 350 of my neighbors homes.  I've been evacuated 4 times or so. 

Don't feel alone.  Now we have one cooking up on top south of Detroit lake.  Closed the road about 3 miles short of my mining claims.  Yours was around 4,000 acres at 4PM

Keavdog, then you remember when fire swept from near Ramona, all the way down the Barona Valley and then all the way down Wild Cat Canyon. It was one of the very few time the casino actually closed.

Great pic.  Living in SoCal since I was  17 I've seen too many like it.  I live about 10 miles from Barona Casino.  Fire season is my second biggest concern about living in CA ;)

Yeah, after twenty years in Southern California and the eight years here, I'm quite familiar with the interagency wild fire tracking sites. Back in 2006-2007, my life was pretty much dictated by their morning report. I was working at one of the Indian Casinos and my then-wife, and a number of friends were with the Border Patrol.

They're saying a couple hundred acres, west of crooked river ranch.

You can pull up the interagency updates by going to NWCC.  Just plug that into your search engine.  They update around 8 in the morning and sometimes about 5 in the evening. Generally only fires over 100 acres, but this one's not there yet.

You can get a summary, or zoom into a map showing the footprint.  Gives info for OR and WA.

Yes. Though hard to tell, the fire is like 30 miles away from my place, where this shot was taken. As of this morning I can't tell 'visually' what the status is. 

HooYah Deep Sea

Had to decide which thread to put this in, 'other hobbies' or 'what did you see today'

Either way, here it is.

Dang, I wonder if I can make any money doing this?

 

The new one cooking over by Culver?

Phew, sometimes i think i have too many hobbies. But some of you guys must stay very busy!

For me, I love motorcycle riding. Grew up on dirt bikes and 4-wheelers. When I was 19 years young I took my passion to the streets. Over the years I have had several motorcyels, my current is a 2020 Kawasaki ninja zx6r that I bought last year. 

I am also a gearhead for cars. I have a fully built subaru STi that is making just shy of 700 horsepower to the wheels. 

Another hobby I love is playing airsoft. I attend one or 2 military simulation games every year with a group of friends. 

Had to decide which thread to put this in, 'other hobbies' or 'what did you see today'

Either way, here it is.

Dang, I wonder if I can make any money doing this?

HiFi Audio, Records, Baseball Cards, Woodwork.

And not enough time to do any of them 

castelnuovo

Reading history books, biographys etc. Lots of books I find here in Canada were not available in ex Yugoslavia, so I am cathcing up.

Running and cyclening, when I have time, which is not often. But at least I can ride to work.

Photography

Chain gang

 

Insects

 

 

WOW killer pictures 

Well!

      That's some inspiring Photography there. I like your use of shadows for some of the pics and space on others.

Eaglecash867

 

 

wpwar11

If I can ask what car did you circuit the track in?  I've been to many F1 tracks but never drove one.  

 

 

Suzuki Swift GTI.  It was an early Friday evening the day before I came back to the States.  Kind of cool to see all of the families setting up picnics on the hill-sides next to the track in Adenau.  Right after that, had a 105 mile drive back to Ramstein...but that goes pretty quick on the autobahn. 

 

Nice! I have a '92 Metro that I've been slowly upgrading. It's no GTI, but I have some parts to swap out.

I've got a custom set of racing headers and the spindles/Brakes from a GTI to install. I only have the 1.0L engine to work with, but I've tuned it for fun. She handles like a dream with what I've put into her, but I still need sway bars and new shocks and struts.

Some day I'll have her completed, but she still won't be a GTI. 

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My other hobby is collecting Transformers. After all of these years it still calls to me of simpler times and fond memories.

Reading history books, biographys etc. Lots of books I find here in Canada were not available in ex Yugoslavia, so I am cathcing up.

Running and cyclening, when I have time, which is not often. But at least I can ride to work.

Photography

Chain gang

Insects

     I think Larson only knows how to go fast, IMO he needs more experience. A member of my model club bumped into Joey Lagono the night before the Atlanta race this year, in North Spokane...Washington state.... Unfortunately he didn't have time to call me to meet him.

Looks like Larson has found a home for the next few years, if he keeps his trap shut.

As a side note on him, a few years ago, my bosses son was on an invitation only cart race.  He ended up finishing 3rd, behind the national cart champion and Larson.

Bosses kid holds every track time record at our 1/3 mile dirt track.  He might make it to cup in a few years.

   I agree keavdog, COTA was an interesting race. Hendrick MotorSports seems to have found the magic potion this year.....bummer I'm a Stewart Haas fan, well all the Fords. RESPECT Kyle Bush, he is an amazing driver, but I can't stand Kyle Bush LOL.

Drums01, you and I have very similar interests.  I retired (early) last year to care for my 22 year old son with special needs due to the Covid virus.  Up to Covid we also enjoyed working out at the local YMCA,but now we work out in our home gym. I've built diecast models with him, since there's less finicky parts. Finally, I have a Kawaski Voygeur 1200 that I've always wanted to mount a sidecar to so I could take my son for rides.  When I retired, the "older" guys in my local model club told me that as long as I had a passion(modeling) to get up for and to enjoy each day, I'd do alright in retirement.

Flying RC planes is my other main hobby.

Also enjoy camping and fishing occasionally.

I enjoy watching racing.  That NASCAR COTA race a couple weeks ago was the most nerve racking race!

    I wouldn't call it a hobby...more of a religion form, I LOVE NASCAR, don't bother me on a Sunday while those colorful high horsepwer machines are making left hand turns. Is my redneck showing? I also enjoy target shooting, in process of obtaining firearms to suit that need. I also really enjoy Sci-Fi books about future space navies and marines, very picky about that. Of course chasing models to abait the stash monster is alot of fun. Hate that bugger LOL.

Wow, my lawn sucks compared to that!  Beautiful work there!

I barely make time for models, so unfortunately I have no other hobbies.  

I used to snorkel and scuba dive, but none of my friends go to the beach anymore after all their kids grew up.  I tried boogie boarding but almost drowned at Sandy Beach (not a place for a noob, especially when there are signs posted that read "Danger - Shore Break").  I tried jet boarding and found out I sucked at it.  I have lousy balance and was too out of shape to maintain body position.

A friend who does extreme rock climbing took me along for some "easy" hikes, some of which were knife edge trails with thrilling 300+ foot drops on either side, with mud and rain to add to the excitement.  So yeah, I'm not a sporty kind of guy.

I do like watching sci-fi movies and anime (hardware shows only, no Bleach or Naruto), but those tie into modeling.

My other hobby has some how become collecting original WWI items mainly photos and postcards for now. Modeling seems to be the cheaper of the two hobbies. 

JohnnyK

I think that gardening can be considered a hobby. We have about 2,000 SF of flower beds. Taking care of them is almost a full time job in Summer. Not a lot of time left for modeling.

 

 

oh c'mon man!! You took pictures of the Disney World gardens!! 

Wow JK you have a green thumb, gorgeous landscape indeed! 

Beautiful gardens there. I have to admit, modeling is my second hobby but I enjoy it very much. I’m lucky that I have a workbench that I can leave everything out and work on something a little at a time when I get a few minutes. I usually get longer bench time in the winter months. My other hobbies include fishing for bass (my primary) and playing trombone and euphonium. I’m also a member of the Living History Crew aboard the USS Alabama BB-60 so WW II reenacting is another hobby of mine.

I think that gardening can be considered a hobby. We have about 2,000 SF of flower beds. Taking care of them is almost a full time job in Summer. Not a lot of time left for modeling.