An easy, non-confrontational subject: Hobbies are GFMPH, what is yours?

I have a few, I love to cook and because of that I enjoy going to the gym and working out (it helps keeping my weight in check from the cooking part). I like tinkering with cars, my Dad owed a garage growing up and I pestered the mechanics on why and how things worked. We belong to a Miata club so we zip around the backroads on weekends. All this talk about trout fishing has got me digging out the old rods and reels and checking out the local streams.

Logo,

Yes, you guessed the right one - middle earth and the like. I did not see any of the first 3, and after this last one, have no desire to.

Yoop,
Where do you find any ammo these days? Luckily I stocked up on thousands of rounds of .223, .308 and .22lr last year, and when you find any it's 3X to 5X what I'm used to paying. This is becoming a very expensive sport since Newtown at $1 a round. Luckily I have .22lr clones for all my major firearms so I can still practice without breaking the bank.
I've got a .58 cal 1863 Enfield that my cousin sent me from Afghanistan in 2003 that still has the tribal engravings on it. If that piece could talk it probably has some stories to tell.
JT

Hi John, tried to send an e-mail reply to you but for some reason it didn't connect; shoot an e-mail my way and I'll reply. Thx.

Gardening on my acre of High Desert. I've got a 250 year old irrigation ditch ( or acequia as we call them in NM) running along one side off of the Santa Clara river and I plant the hell out of it most summers and give the produce to the local food bank. Don't think I'll be doing the veggies this summer, the body is not up to it but my flowers are coming along real nice . . . Q

colorado monkey said...
Golf and not the riding in a cart drinking beer kind. Meaning carrying the bag, shutting out stress and really focusing on the game, the course itself, playing partners and the peace of it all. Never played as a kid and took it up about a decade ago. Now a single digit handicap and enjoy hunting trophy courses so to speak. Trying to play the Top 100 in the U.S. you can play list.

Until the last few years, I was a pretty serious golfer myself (back in the 1990's I was as low as a 2 and carried a 3 for a full season.)  When in high school I played in and finished 83rd in the Quad City open (wasn't a tour event at that time, but rather a Satellite event to the Western open).  Then Lupron (weight gain) and declining enthusiasm 'cuz I hate to keep getting worse, has diminished my play (gave up my membership this year).

Favorite courses I've played are Pine Valley, Pebble Beach, Harbour Town, Merion & Spyglass (in that order).

My current obsession is wildlife photography (and I also do a bit of video).

Several folks have mentioned astronomy (I was quite avid in the 1960's).  Also, back in the 60's I did a bit of Drag Racing (we won our class in the World Series of Drag Racing).

How's that for an eclectic list?

...Jerry

Thought of a few more interests/hobbies I am planning... I have a metal detector and I will start poking around for some old coins and trinkets around our Valley... Plenty of old homesteads and gathering places to check out. Also will add in a little gold panning... more for the fun of exploring and hiking around our streams and mountains. I also recently heard a great musician, Blake Noble, play the acoustic guitar (with a lot of built in percussion style) and didgeradoo at our local brew pub... He has a Kickstarter campaign going to help put out his first album... I signed up for a support level that will be getting me a didgeradoo (pvc)... Figured I might have fun to learn playing it... maybe add it to the things I take along on my backpack trips... Would be great to play it in the high country sitting around a remote camping spot... I have never played an instrument and have no knowledge of music... I do enjoy the sounds that cam come out of the didgeradoo...

Also thinking about a GFMPH hiking/backpacking adventure... Could be fun... Realize that with time, distance, interests, and other constraints with HW members, if would be difficult to set up. Maybe better as a more "local" event... I can work through our churches and local hiking forums... Figure that there are most likely plenty of PCa guys around... If anybody would be interested on HW, just drop me a note or email...

pasayten

pasa - the metal detector idea is great, my son and I talked about that just today. Never know what one can find.

logo - I guess because I don't golf, and explained why above, not sure I could be paid to watch it on tv, I think watching bowling would be one step worse, lol. before I became disabled, I was just getting good bowling, found out from the pros I know, that left handed bowlers have certain natural advantages. my hips could never take the action now.

david

Jerry- Haven't played Pine Valley or Spy, but plan too. Pacific Dunes, Old MacDonald, Challenge at Manele, Bandon Dunes, Troon North (before the redo), Ballyneal, & Medinah are some of my favorites. For golfers, these are some that are just breathtaking pieces of architecture IMO. Although some, would simply consider this a waste of good land. :)

Logo- Great story and it made me laugh thinking about Brian Doyle Murray. One of my favorite movies to watch once in a while for him alone. I am addicted to watching it on t.v. as well, but do agree with David in SC, that if your not a fan it can be like watching paint dry.

Yooper- Good luck to the Pack this year, and that coming from a Bears fan. My better half is a HUGE fan of your QB, who led her to her 1st FFL Championship a few years back. She was so happy she bought a share of the Packers when it was offered public again.

Last but not least.... Agreed that the Hobbit Movie was a debacle. I am a huge fan of the books and the LOTR trilogy movies. Couldn't take an hour of the Hobbit movie. It did get me to read the book again though just to make sure the book wasn't that dreadful.

A Yooper said...
Purg - you hit this one out of the park! What a fantastic, positive thread - and as others have said a great way to get to know one another even more.

O.K. then, for me:

Exerise - cardio and weight training. Have a very extensive "gym quality" setup in my basement.

Hunting - primarily whitetail deer, gun and bow.

Shooting - pick any one of some 25 guns, from .17hmr up through 7mm rem mag and ruger 44 mag super blackhawk. AR's, 9's, and let's not forget shotguns including a 16 ga bolt action that I re-stained and re-blued myself about 40 years ago. Trap shooting in the back part of our spread.

Fishing - walleyes and smallies on my lake in the U.P., native brookies in the streams in the U.P., monster pike in NW Ontario fly-ins.

Back-packing - primarily in the U.P., going with my son to the Porcupine Mountains Wilderness area in 2 weeks.

Packer's fan - 'nuff said! Season ticket holder.

And if anyone else weighed in that knows me, they would all say "work-aholic."

That's how like to imagine you, a positive person.

I am a Giants fan but I love the Packers and always root for them. Great organization.

Shot my first ever gun on a recent trip to Dallas. They offered to teach us to shoot while we were having diner! There was a steer in the room and armadillo races too. Must have been a set up for all the conference people attending. I can say I've shot a gun now but it isn't my thing.

Logo, I am a pretty big fan of Leo myself, but didn't care for Shutter Island, but acknowledge as a good movie. Redford physically was a better representation of Gatsby, but felt Leo captured the character truer to the intention of the author's book. Agree, that all these opinions are very subjective at best, we all like what we like, and don't have to justify our likes and dislikes.

In the new movie, the racing scenes with the two Duisenberg's hauling "a" on the back roads into NYC will be a classic moment to all car fans forever.

This thread is doing what I hoped would be achieved, its serving as a reaching out to one another, and finding some common ground between ourselves. PC is more than just technical and medical and even physical matters, its about men, and those that love them, and our lives. My life will always be more than the sum of the cancer battles I have fought and won so far, and more than the struggles I have to live with day in and day out. Glad you are liking it so much, hope others feel the same way.

Reading all this marvelous input, is giving me a new and better appreciation of who we are, such a great variety among ourselves, and a lot of talented people here.

david

aljct - failed to mention. living here in the deep south and in the middle of Panther country, usually the only Pat's games I get to see are the Sunday and Monday night games. It's rare most Sundays to see a game. Can't afford the NFL package on my Charter TV, and I don't go to sports bars. However, the Pat's are playing the Panthers in November this season in Charlotte (90 minute drive), believe it's a Monday night game. My wife has committed to go with me, and my daughter and husband from Charleston are going to hook up too (they are die hard Panther fans), should still be a good time. We will probably stay over night to make it easier for me to go. Been to a lot of MLB games in my life, but never been to any NFL game, let alone a Pat's game. When we lived in NH, we simply couldn't afford to go. Hoping our man Brady still has 3 to 5 more good seasons left in him. I do belong to the Pat's FB page if you hang out there.

david