<p>Does anyone want to say what their hobbies are? (No this is NOT a dating form.)</p>
<p>Until a few years ago it was sports car racing. Now it is antiques and home improvements. Guess who got married a few years ago.</p>
<p>music. i love going to clubs to see bands play, or going to concerts, or listening to music, or going to friends band practice, or playing my guitars, or playing the drums at friends houses… one of these day’s i’m going to buy myself a drumset… one of these days… if i keep telling myself that, maybe i’ll eventually get around to it…</p>
<p>Nice. Okay.</p>
<p>When young. Art- drawing and watercolor painting -attended Art College for while and had all my watercolors stolen by a prof. once. Did the Grand Tour and marveled at Botticelli’s the Mona Lisa and Gilberti Bronze Doors.</p>
<p>Later; Archeology. Went on several excavations in Italy (Etruscan and early middle ages) and the U.S. (Franklin Court and Ft. Putnam) Was really into this for several years. Was usually the excavation’s artist.</p>
<p>Then ;Early American History. Still crazy about this subject. Had job oriented around it for several years.</p>
<p>Now: Collecting historic objects. Won’t go into detail but I’m impassioned.</p>
<p>sleep…</p>
<p>ha, ha!
oops! Forgot tennis! About 15 yrs. Weak serve, strong stroke, lefty, like singles , competitive, series of injuries lately -plantar faschitis followed by rotators cuff injury, and 15 lb weight gain over 3 years(really really bad news for my game) Perfer hard tru, but can play on grass well, just not hard. I don’t really like clay because my pockets get all soiled and my sneakers turn red! Clay is easy on your knees but it makes you hit the ball harder, something I shoudn’t do. Will usually stay on the court 11/2 hrs.- like to have a beer at the bar afterwards with companion- but it always gives me a headache.</p>
<p>I’m passionate about reading. Which is why my house often feels like it is tilting in the direction of the library.</p>
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<p>Dogs: showing Great Danes</p>
<p>Normally, when you ask about “hobbies” I immediately think about things like scrapbooking or model airplane flying or coin collecting. But I think my hobbies are actually the outdoor activities I do. For example, this morning (as most weekday mornings) I went for a hike in the foothills - or, because of all of the snow we were buried with yesterday (schools were closed), we went snoeshoeing. It’s hard to convey the pleasure of starting out in the dark (four of us) with our little LED headlamps on, crunching through the snow on a trail no one else had been on yet, looking at all of the animal tracks from the night before and watching the sky pinken with the sunrise. It was 8 degrees this morning, but once you start, you’re pretty warm. One of the people in our little party saw a mountain lion along that trail on Friday, so of course we were looking hard for lion prints in the snow (didn’t find any). What a way to start a weekday before work! It boosts your spirits for the whole day.</p>
<p>Sunday we did another snowshoe trip up in the mountains. We parked the car, started up a valley until we could get onto a ridge, then backtracked parallel to our original trail. We climbed some rocks to a lookout and found ourselves about 200 yards (horizontal distance) from our car - looking very small below us. When we started back, however, we climbed down the rocks a different way (to avoid the steep climb we had been on) and began to circle back to cross our original tracks and walk out. It was a while later that I began to realize that if we hadn’t crossed our path yet, we were NOT going to cross it at all. Semi-lost! (OK, I have to admit, I was leading). My wife then took the lead (I swear she has magnetite in her body) and led us for another half hour or so until we crossed a trail that we recognized that would take us back to the car. So, we’re still here, not the subject of a search party. But it goes to show you how a Sunday stroll in the mountains can become a bit more of a trek than you thought it would be. BTW - we never felt in danger or anything because we could have just turned around and retraced our tracks all the way back to the car. But suppose a sudden snow storm had blown in and our tracks (and visibility) were gone? That’s how people get into trouble.</p>
<p>But I digress… could outdoor activities be considered a hobby?</p>
<p>Great story Dig, glad you were all okay. Must be a wonderful localtion for hiking! So fortunate you are! Hope you ALWAYS take precautions but as you live there, bet you know them all.
There is nothing worse than the fearful panic of being in a very bad situation.One time in a National Park hus. and I decided to go off a marked trail and walk around a lake. A</p>
<p>So sorry. About 1/2 way around the terrain became very difficult. We started climbing rocks and the rocks became boulders. When we finally looked up, we saw we were navigating a rock slide… The situation became worse and worse and we finally resorted to going into the lake as we could not go back. This was scary also as we were not sure how deep it was and there was a soft bottom. At any rate we got out but we broke all the rules. It will never happen again. Learned our lesson!
Oh, forgot to mention another of my hobbies is volunteer work for our township parks. </p>
<p>Carolyn; everyone on C.C. values reading so much! You must enjoy this site!
Concernedad; Can only say wow, they are magnificent creatures! Appears they have nice dispositions?</p>
<p>BGH, IMHO, they have THE nicest disposition. The are friendly and goofy, loyal and lovable, even-tempered and imperial – as they are called, “The Apollo of Dogs.”</p>
<p>And, the 3 mile walks we take everyday are good for me!</p>
<p>Dogs (2 Jack Russells), fishing, horses (a beloved Dutch Warmblood) and gardening.</p>
<p>Hmm…daughters and managing our 403b and 457 plans…when there is time between “chauffeuring” and working full-time, there’s reading, sewing, music, and walking! That should cover it!</p>
<p>Actually i should add in Photography as a hobby as well… just something i’m interested in, but haven’t had much chance to do… other than as courses in college…</p>
<p>reading, kayaking, walking, cooking (when I don’t have to), writing.</p>
<p>Didn’t Da vinci paint the Mona Lisa? I don’t think it was Botticelli.</p>
<p>I am also a big tennis addict. BHG - I’m also a lefty, an advantage I love! I play on two teams, take several clinics and play doubles. We don’t have grass courts here but I’ve dreamed of playing on one. I’m not a fan of clay either (I can’t stand the clay getting in the ball pockets of tennis panties!) because I like to hit the ball hard - although I will never overpower anyone or outhit them but I do outthink alot of people out there.</p>
<p>Also love to read - I’m a member of a book club that’s really a wine club with a book problem. But it’s led me to read some interesting things I probably wouldn’t have read (and some I wish I hadn’t).</p>
<p>I love crossword puzzles. I finally re-subscribed to the sunday NY times just for the crossword puzzle. I work it all week and can usually finish most of it. Ta-da!</p>
<p>Ha Ha Thank you Moon. Meant to say, Botticelli’s Venus on the half Shell!!!Then though maybe no one will catch it because I make so many computer and spelling errors!</p>