Other Hobbies

Oh plenty of hobbies .
fireworks of course professionally its great to get paid for shooting a display.
amateur rocket scientist,chemist.
RC boat and planes , jewelry design, hunting and fishing .
Martial arts
though my most expensive hobby would have to be my kids

Grandfatherbear is a history buff, and we both enjoy comics, anime, and manga. We are also life members of the Florida Trail Association, altho I'm wondering if my nackpacking days are over. I let my Boy Scout membership lapse. There was too much unpleasentness with certain people...of course karma will out and one of them was just stripped of his membership by National...so Council goes and appoints his WIFE as scoutmaster! Go figure.
I almost became a certified Bradley childbirth instructor, 2 years ago but could not put up with the highly interventionist obstetrics practiced here in Florida. If it was only a little more homebirth friendly...I think I could've put up with a 50/50 mix in the client base, when I taught home birth back in the 70s in the DC area we had about a 25% drop out rate, convinced by their mothers or their husbands to do thing the "normal" way and go to a hospital that would routinely strap you down and anesthetize you...I do read a lot. My first husband and I lived in a right wing commune back in the late 60s/early 70s that every member wanted to be a pioneer on the space station -anyone remember the L5 society, named after the Lagrangian points where the gravity between the sun and moon cancel each other out and an object placed there will hang in stasis forever? Well, one of our beliefs was we had to be a walking repository of human science and knowledge and I sorta started really digging into being a humanoid fact repository...

Can't open the edit feature- I meant between the EARTH and the moon-silly me!

I facet cut fine gemstones, make jewelry, ham radio, my Arabian horses, fishing & hunting. Darn how do I find time to work?

Hobbies have come and gone for me. I play piano and organ. Used to sing in a gospel trio. Now, I just play and sing with my dog. Spent many many years as a church pianist/organist. I've always painted on something, but haven't done that for a few years now. I used to paint Santa gourds, guardian angel signs on wood, painted landscapes on old saw blades, dabbled in acrylics on canvas.

Dabble, dabble, that's been me.

Of course we are yankees..... but if you look closely some of us have Gray vests.. closer to the heart that way.....


That war is over and the next one hasn't started yet (well at least the shooting part)

So there is no telling which side we will be on...

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OK. So you can't post from pics that are on your computer? Any suggestions for that "somewhere that allows remote linking?" I would need something idiot proof, because if there is a way to screw it up, I'll find it...

Mary

I enjoy picking my banjo, handgun competitions, and woodworking

Since you're a pioneer, Grandmotherbear, i just want to say that even hospitals are getting better.

I delivered number two in a hospital with a CNM who had basically designed our hospital's OB wing. No drugs and not only was I not strapped down, I could deliver hanging from the rafters, if that's what I'd wanted.
(She wouldn't let me stay in the whirlpool though as she wanted to take a water delivery class first. :P )
But this was in rural South Dakota, not exactly on the cusp of medical technology, so I just wanted to let you know... It's coming.

mary
Nope. You can only link to a pic that's hosted elsewhere.
Photobucket is a really popular one, as is Shutterfly. I think they both allow linking, but I won't swear to it. I use my store's website as my photo host, so it's been a while since I looked for this kind of thing.

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Wow,

Many answers but none what I feel.

Homesteading is NOT a hobby, but a way of life.

While I do have hobbys, I don't consider raising our own meat, raising our own vegatables, and our own fruit (and knowing how to preserve them for winter, spring and early summer) a hobby.

Hobby is defined by avocation: an auxiliary activity or a spare-time recreational pursuit.

Where in that defination do most of us whom "homestead" fall? Nothing I do is an axiliary activity nor a spare time recreational pursuit.

I eat bacon and eggs for breakfast every morning (from our own raised pigs, and our own chickens)... eat supper every night with our own meat (be it pork, lamb, beef, chicken, duck or turkey). With our own potatoes on the side. if I decide to eat chili, it's from our own beef, with our own ham bone, our own onions and peppers, and the tomatoes I put up for it.

I've sold meat (extra"s) to people who ask what is the price of hamburger, steak, ham etc. in the store... and I honestly tell them I have no idea of what any of the grocery stores in our area are charging (because I haven't bought meat in over 4 years... hobby?). I know I charge .75 cents a pound for on the hoof turkey, and 1.50 a pound for dressed. (and I don't care what Wally world or any other store has on sale for Thanksgiving... fresh ((never frozen) naturally supplemented are worth every penny we charge.



Hobby... I think NOT, again, it is a style of living that if you think of it as a Hobby, you haven't come close to living.

PAT

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Nasha Dacha

The only people who never make mistakes are those who are afraid to try!

I knew it wouldn't be long till i got some one bent out of shape by the way i worded this. I enjoy my whole life so i call my life a hobby.

I enjoy my whole life too! When I worked (before I retired) it was not a hobby. It was a way to provide for my family. Now that I am retired... (and without any government handouts) my life is still providing for my family.

Seeing the purty cars or the purty horses etc is not providing for our families.

I knew it wouldn't be long till i got some one bent out of shape by the way i worded this. doesn't deal with how we feed our familes... nor does I enjoy my whole life so i call my life a hobby. As I said before hobby is an auxiliary activity or a spare-time recreational pursuit. I don't consider what we do to eat either.


Hobby as stated above (and by your pictures of your pretty cars) is something of an auxiliary nature. Having hair sheep, Livestock Guardian dogs, English Shepards, Highland cattle, heritage turkeys, heritage ducks, Muscovy ducks, heritage chickens, Pilgrim geese, pigs for my pig tractor, and guineas (as well as mammoth Jack Donkeys) is not auxiliary. I have to feed them. I have to provide all the support they get, and in turn they provide me meat...

Am I upset by your calling "Homesteading" a "hobby” you better believe it! Thinking that "pretty cars" compares with having lambs and calves... not here at Homesteading Today. Taking them to the butcher, and then to freezer camp... and cooking what I raised... How can your "pretty car" compare that only guzzles high priced gas (or methane) and doesn't give you anything to eat?

I enjoy much more what I do now, then when I worked for a living. But, I work at what I do now (actually harder than while I worked).

If you accept the Hobby is defined by avocation: an auxiliary activity or a spare-time recreational pursuit definitions... or even agree to I enjoy my whole life so I call my life a hobby (with the caveat that a hobby is something you do in your "spare time" or something that is not instrumental in living) than I accept your chastisement

Pat

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Nasha Dacha

The only people who never make mistakes are those who are afraid to try!

Thanks for the info on Photobucket. I will try to add a photo of my latest champion, as a test.

http://s417.photobucket.com/albums/p...24th2007TN.jpg

Aaarrrrggghhhh... It came as a link, not a photo... any suggestions?

You want the IMG code; bottom right.

Our hobby is ham radio. We enjoy and we are all set to use it in emergencies and for helping in the community. We were asked today if we would talk to the people at the dirt bike and 4 wheeler if we could do some spotting and kinda be like a safety check as to keeping up with riders. Hope everyone enjoys something. Sam

I enjoy raising my pigs and chickens so to me its a hobby because i don't have to raise them. As for How can your "pretty car" compare that only guzzles high priced gas (or methane) and doesn't give you anything to eat?
It runs on 87 pump gas, and one guy doing this made $40,000 one year and maybe spent $5,000 not that you can count on that but hobby's some times break even or make some money. Now back to enjoying some pictures of other people hobbies.

i recently made my self a wash tub bass.:banana02:and have been practicing with my blue grass tapes. lol anything to keep me out of trouble...lol

That sounds cool. Hmmmm trouble yeah when i was younger i was bad about speeding but sense i got in to racing i now drive like a old man on the road lol.

Thanks Jen (fingers, toes and eyes crossed)