What other hobbies do you have...

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wyrflyr · Feb 13, 2004 01:52 PM

The thread on what type of careers we have has been very interesting.
So how about a new one on what other hobbies we control liners still do, or have done in the past.

I keep tropical fish, African Cichlids to be exact. They are a hard water species from the Rift lakes of Africa. Currently have a 75 gal and a 46 gal tank. 15 years ago kept tropical marines, but they were an awful lot of work and when I started shooting gave them up.

Shot IHMSA (International Handgun Metallic Silhouette Association) for 12 years. This was where you laid on the ground in Creedmoor position and shot at, and, had to knock down steel silhouettes of animals. The rams weighted 55 lbs at a range of 200 meters.
Was Ohio State champion in 2 classes over the years.

The shooting, kind of parallels stunt flying. You load you gear, pick up you buddy, drive many miles to a match, wait hours to shoot, tell lies, talk about you gear, and drive home. Just change airplane to gun, motor to caliber, fuel to powder, etc, etc, etc.

Lets hear something about the hobbies you gentlemen have had.

Jerry

gtrbaby · Feb 13, 2004 02:19 PM

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I keep tropical fish....Cichlids, but not Africans.....Oscars, severums etc.....may go back to community ( pretty fish ) soon just for a change.....had a 3 foot long Amazon Arowana....THEY are hard work....ate fish, frogs. mice etc.....and boy can they jump.

I also have a passion for fishing....have done since I was a kid....I will always stop off at a river/lake seashore to cast a line...

I tend to switch between my hobbies as to which is my favourite...at the moment it is Control Line...and my fish hate me for it....

Here's my tank...when the fish were babies.....

In the battle of airplane V ground, the ground is yet to lose.

tperry2054 · Feb 13, 2004 02:19 PM

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I'm a woodworker and stamp collector. The woodworking tools help a great deal for modeling, dunno 'bout the stams, thearapy I guess.

Tom

Bob Reeves · Feb 13, 2004 02:20 PM

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I think you will see somewhat of a pattern...

Motorcycles, Photography and Shooting at one time or another.. Computers until they became my livelihood now writing code isn't fun anymore.

Old Sourdough · Feb 13, 2004 02:45 PM

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The short list is (Some are current activities. Some are temporarily on hold.):

HO Scale Model Railroading--Prototype=NWP

Small bore (.22 LR) rifle Metallic silhouette competition.

Hunting-Lately waterfowl only. I used to hunt moose, caribou and sheep, but the hikes with decoys got to be too much for this old body.

Fly fishing-since well before it became "cool" to do so. Arctic Grayling, Rainbow trout, red and silver salmon.)

Reading-Humor (I'm reading my Pat McManus books again.), history, other nonfiction, suspense/mystery novels

Movie collecting and watching ( I've had a DVD player since before our area had software available.)

Music (all kinds) listening (decent high end audio system) and performing (for my enjoyment only! Noodling around with the Old Conn Director.)

Duplicate Bridge

eBay insanity

Internet surfing and posting!

The Old Sourdough
Ruksakinmakiak, Alaska, US of A

Ron · Feb 13, 2004 02:49 PM

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Private Pilot (SEL/Instrument)
Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic (maintaining my 1951 Bonanza)
Ham radio operator (W6ZSL)
Sail boat racing (International 470 Class - No PHRF for me thank you

)

Ron · Feb 13, 2004 02:54 PM

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>Private Pilot (SEL/Instrument)
>Airframe and Powerplant Mechanic (maintaining my 1951
>Bonanza)
>Ham radio operator (W6ZSL)
>Sail boat racing (International 470 Class - No PHRF for me
>thank you

)

...oh yeah my other "passion": I'm working on a second degree in music: performing saxophone... (my first degree is aero)

otshodges · Feb 13, 2004 03:15 PM

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My grand-children, watching NASCAR racing and bass fishing are my other passions.

Bill Hodges

John Sunderland · Feb 13, 2004 03:28 PM

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I played drums in a working band, part time/weekends, for many years and I play guitar just bad enough to be accused of knowing how to play. I fish a little and have considered getting my hunting licence next deer season. I also joined the local gun club down the road because they keep a well stocked pond. It aint airplanes, but the boys love it and I have fun too.

John S.

John Sunderland

Steve Fitton · Feb 13, 2004 03:28 PM

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Model rocketry, both small Estes stuff and High Power

shooting, mostly pistol, both smallbore and .45s (love the 1911 )

reenacting, ie dressing up and playing Army on a grand scale, primarily WWI anymore....

Plastic models, mostly aircraft and armor. But mostly stunt. My free time is either building stunt jobs or flying them.

Brad Smith · Feb 13, 2004 04:26 PM

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nascar, fishing, bass fishing, and my work as a dental tech. hope to build a hot rod some day.

i crash i fix i fly i crash again see ya Brad Smith

dirtydan · Feb 13, 2004 04:43 PM

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>>I also joined the local gun club down the road because they keep a well stocked pond.

>>John S.

John,

I am almost afraid to ask for more details. But if the members of this club are indeed shooting the fish instead of catching them with hook and line, I can see where the lake would have to be well, and frequently, stocked.

If I visit you this summer, do you advise long guns or can I just bring a couple pistols?

For the peanut gallery, everybody who has tried it already knows a shotgun is of little use against fish. Even if ya catch one close to the surface, there's not much left to eat and/or to demonstrate your fishing prowess to your friends. I mean, standing on the bank of a lake, fish head in one hand, fish tail in the other and saying, "Hey, before I blew it in half, this fish was **this** long!" is just not a good addition to one's resume.

Dan

John Sunderland · Feb 15, 2004 07:07 AM

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>>>I also joined the local gun club down the road because they keep a well stocked pond.
>
>>>John S.
>
>
>John,
>
>I am almost afraid to ask for more details. But if the
>members of this club are indeed shooting the fish instead of
>catching them with hook and line, I can see where the lake
>would have to be well, and frequently, stocked.
>
>If I visit you this summer, do you advise long guns or can I
>just bring a couple pistols?
>
>For the peanut gallery, everybody who has tried it already
>knows a shotgun is of little use against fish. Even if ya
>catch one close to the surface, there's not much left to eat
>and/or to demonstrate your fishing prowess to your friends.
>I mean, standing on the bank of a lake, fish head in one
>hand, fish tail in the other and saying, "Hey, before I blew
>it in half, this fish was **this** long!" is just not a good
>addition to one's resume.
>
>Dan

LOL....Yes Dan a Zebco twelve guage is the preferred gun of choice but then again we are talking some monster catfish here. Just get a good head shot at close range and the edible parts float to the top..scoop em up with your net.

In all sincerity though, this particular trap & skeet club has a very nice fishing pond that is well stocked. Its very close to the house so it is convenient. I moved from the burbs to the boonies last fall and despite my efforts to water proof my building hovel the $!%^*() basement leaked just after Christmas and I have done precious little building this winter. I have managed to scour the local flea markets for my favorite reels though. The old Mitchell reels are my favorite.

My girlfriends youngest son has had buck fever for awhile now and though the season is over we have been tracking a local herd. Last night a dusk we had over 70 deer in the fields behind the house. A gorgeous sight. He shot his first deer this past fall and that has made several fine meals. The bragging still has not subsided so I have relented and gotten involved. Precious little out here for an eleven year old to do after school so we hike the local woods often. Helps keep an ADHD kid entertained and tuckers em out a bit. The old guy also!

John

John Sunderland

Tim McTigue · Feb 13, 2004 04:32 PM

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I don't so much have "hobbies" as "avocations". I include model airplanes in this. I don't do many things at a time, but when I latch onto something, as Scrooge said, "it occupies me constantly." Music is one of my most pervasive and life-long avocations. I have played guitar since I was the age my youngest now is (12), but he started a couple years earlier than I did. I write my own music, but mostly don't ask anyone to listen to it. I record my own stuff, too, when I have the time, inclination, and an interesting (to me) idea. A couple years ago, I rebuilt my 1965 Fender Super Reverb amplifier. Mostly, if I want something, I do it myself. I have a long-range plan to build a violin, but for the time being, that dream has taken a back seat to modeling. Sometimes I get interested in a topic, like (for instance) cosmology, and I read it to death. I once read Stephen Hawking's "A Brief History of Time", and I then had to read a series of books on cosmology and Plasma Theory. Just for fun. Sometimes I read fiction, but I tend to favor biographies and autobiographies, and historical non-fiction. On occasion I draw or paint, but haven't done these things in a long time. So far I'm mostly stuck on modeling for the past couple of years.

Tim

MAAC 65703

Old Sourdough · Feb 13, 2004 06:11 PM

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I still have one of Tim's songs stored on my hard drive. It's called Back at the Field Again, and it's actually quite good and very enjoyable. Tim's singing is honest, but his voice doesn't hold a candle to his daughter's, at least judging by this small sample.

The Old Sourdough
Ruksakinmakiak, Alaska, US of A

Tim McTigue · Feb 13, 2004 06:38 PM

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>...Tim's
>singing is honest, but his voice doesn't hold a candle to
>his daughter's, at least judging by this small sample.

Why, thanks, OS! I'll tell Kelly you said so. It's certainly no secret, and one reason why I almost never sing in public - I have no wish to be that cruel. I have continued writing some additional C/L songs as the mood strikes me, and one day I may put a CD together, if I ever get the time...

Tim

MAAC 65703

Old Sourdough · Feb 13, 2004 11:34 PM

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Hey, Tim.

Just upload a couple to your web site, and I'll steal some more!

The Old Sourdough
Ruksakinmakiak, Alaska, US of A

Currell · Feb 13, 2004 11:56 PM

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Tim: I had an uncle, back in Virginia, who made his own instruments. He belonged to a club called the Society of Ancient Intstruments.

Currell

Randy · Feb 13, 2004 04:46 PM

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Hmm, let's see:

Was a motorcycle racer at one time. Actually raced for a factory team (Maico) in motocross - man that was a long time ago.

Do autobody stuff for fun. Mostly fixing friend's cars these days.

My wife is a competitive Dressage rider. I'm the groom, stable boy and general roustabout, oh, and truck and trailer driver.

Computer stuff - mostly Linux. I do a very small bit of development programming as a hobbie when I'm sick of planes. I'm just really learning.

Guitar player. Professional once, but again, that was a long time ago. It's how I made money while in college. I went to undergraduate school on a track scholarship. A lot of international competition from AAU to IAAF. Full ride, so the the NCAA says you can't work. Playing guitar in the clubs and getting paid under the table was about the only way to get any extra money. The shcool was under NCAA sanctions at the time and had a rep on campus watching everyone. Felt like the Gestapo. Sigh...those were the days. My son is a Music Theory major and 3 times the guitar player I ever was. I still follow Track and Field.

Avid baseball fan. I coach a little league team and go to a lot of Mariners games.

I read a lot. Everything. Like Tim, something will take my interest and I'll read all I can find (or digest) on it. Big David Weber and William Forstchen fan for fiction. Just love Honor Harrington.

A lot of other stuff over the last 30 years, but those are the high points.

Randy Powell

themouse · Feb 13, 2004 05:02 PM

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Cars, Motorcycles, Guitars, Model airplanes, so I'm in good company it looks like. I have 2 fish aquariums, and 2 old motorcycles (awaiting restoration), and I read a lot...and tend also to pick a subject, or sometimes an author, and read it to death, then move on.

After reading the other posts, maybe we aren't so diverse, looks like a lot of us are very similar.

Austin

nronketti · Feb 14, 2004 12:29 PM

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>Was a motorcycle racer at one time. Actually raced for a
>factory team (Maico) in motocross - man that was a long time
>ago.

Makes two of us:

Never raced for a factory team, but spent several happy years bouncing myself into gravel traps up and down the country.

nr.

50s Flyer · Feb 13, 2004 05:39 PM

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This topic is a good chance to introduce myself.My name is Joe Connelly.This is my first post.I live in Salem Wi.I flew C/L from 1952 to 1955.It appears that I learned everything the wrong way.We did not know about flying 4-2-4, just flew wide open 2 cycle.I lived then in a south suburb of Chicago called Oak Forest Ill.
My other hobbies are playing piano,keeping freshwater tropical fish,Bowling,and doing my genealogical history of my family.I'm 68 yrs.old and retired.I've really learned a lot from lurking on this list.I just started flying last summer again.I got a KISS trainer from Mike Ogren at Pro Tech Aero.I never learned to fly inverted,and I still don't,but I hope to accomplish that this coming season.Thanks to all who share their wisdom with us.This is a great list.

50s Flyer

jobellcrank · Feb 13, 2004 07:25 PM

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Interesting posts.

I too once kept Tropical Fish. I went the whole gamit, started out with trying to keep everything, but over the years settled into Killifish and Bettas. Both rather high maintenance species, esp. the Killifishes. At one time, I had over 100 tanks. I soon realized that all my spare time was going into tank and specie maintenance, so I got rid of all of it to try and regain some of my limited sanity. But, I recently bookmarked the web sites for the International Betta Congress, and the American Killifish Society.

I too enjoy the shooting sports, also mainly handguns. I also like the 1911, though I no longer own one. I shoot mostly for fun st either paper targets, or beer cans.

I am also a Ham Radio Operator, since 1974. Call sign is AL7AA.

I used to be a Stamp collector, I really don't know why that was so facinating to me. I had a pretty good collection at one time, but wound up selling it for start up money for a project I got involved in.

I still have my Mandolin, though it's been collecting dust for several years. I enjoy Blugrass style of music when I played it.

Lately I've taken up the sport of Backpacking. I enjoy the solitude and connection with nature that comes from a week on the trail.

I've recently become interested in NASCAR, but I'm a complete newby.

(I had to put this in as an edit, can't belive I didn't list this previously.)
I have an abiding interest in photography, I've had it almost as long as flying planes. I used to have a lot of equipment, but today,it's only a decent midrange Digital camera.

Still, my main interest is CL PA. I may never be a top competitor, not that it matters. I'm really in it for the comradery and socializing we do. Some of the finest people I've ever met are in this hobby.

I'm wondering why everything is spinning around?

John Miller

clflyer · Feb 13, 2004 08:22 PM

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>This topic is a good chance to introduce myself.My name is
>Joe Connelly.This is my first post.I live in Salem Wi.I flew
>C/L from 1952 to 1955.It appears that I learned everything
>the wrong way.We did not know about flying 4-2-4, just flew
>wide open 2 cycle.I lived then in a south suburb of Chicago
>called Oak Forest Ill.
> My other hobbies are playing piano,keeping freshwater
>tropical fish,Bowling,and doing my genealogical history of
>my family.I'm 68 yrs.old and retired.I've really learned a
>lot from lurking on this list.I just started flying last
>summer again.I got a KISS trainer from Mike Ogren at Pro
>Tech Aero.I never learned to fly inverted,and I still
>don't,but I hope to accomplish that this coming
>season.Thanks to all who share their wisdom with us.This is
>a great list.

Question Joe, are you in the Salem, WI near Kenosha or the one farther North and West. If near Kenosha, there is a good club in the Milwaukee area

Interested in C/L? Check out my site:
http://www.clflyer.com
Bill Calkins

50s Flyer · Feb 13, 2004 11:03 PM

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In response to Bill Calkins about where my Salem Wi.is, I am near Kenosha.Thanks for telling me about Milwaukee.I have been flying at the Bong Recreation area near my home.There is an area dedicated to models, be it R/C, C/L, or model rockets.It is a pretty safe area, and there is no noise problem.We can fly without mufflers there, so my Foxes are allowed to run the way they were meant to run.
To John Miller, I started with tropical fish in 1942 when I was 7 yrs. old.I have kept them off and on and still get a kick out of even common species, such as mollies and rainbowfish.In 1942,the person who got me started in fish used to take me to Van Oaks Aqurium in Chicago.It was a large store,and as a kid, I couldn't wait to go there.It is amazing to see how many of the guys on this list are interested in the same hobbies.

Joe Connelly

50s Flyer

jobellcrank · Feb 14, 2004 05:37 PM

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Yes indeed this is an interesting thread. So many neat avocations here, and a lot of them re-occuring with different individuals.

50's flyer, You started a lot earlier than I did with the tropicals. Though my first fish keeping experience began around 1950. I really didn't get into high gear until the mid 60's when my then father in-law gifted me with an aquarium. I expect that I'll be doing something with either Killies or Bettas once again as I feel the urges. I'm going to have to keep it within limits though as I want to spend most of my liesure, (limited) time, designing, building, flying, and competeing with my model airpalnes.

I'm familiar with your neck of the woods. I used to live in WI. Door County. I also belonged to the Millwaukee Circle Masters, a great bunch of guys whom I miss a lot. I don't suppose you also belong to that club?

I'm wondering why everything is spinning around?

John Miller

mkedave · Feb 16, 2004 08:11 AM

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Joe,

I grew up in New Munster and used to fly RC gliders at Bong as a kid before it was a state park. we parked right off hwy J. I Live in the Milwaukee area now. Do you fly control line at the RC area at bong?

Hobbies
Dirt bikes for a time then gob busted up real bad, Road raced bicycles, got to be in the same Race as Lance Armstrong once (but I was in a lower category). Now coaching Youth basketball.

Dave Siegler

50s Flyer · Feb 16, 2004 11:02 PM

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>Joe,
>
>I grew up in New Munster and used to fly RC gliders at Bong
>as a kid before it was a state park. we parked right off
>hwy J. I Live in the Milwaukee area now. Do you fly
>control line at the RC area at bong?
>
>Hobbies
>Dirt bikes for a time then gob busted up real bad, Road
>raced bicycles, got to be in the same Race as Lance
>Armstrong once (but I was in a lower category). Now
>coaching Youth basketball.
>
>Dave Siegler

Yes Dave,I fly at the R/C area at Bong.I also flew at Fox River Park in Silver Lake,but I don't think it's safe enough to fly there.I don't get out much because there is no one around here that flys U/C,and I have been reluctant to fly with a stooge,but I guess if I want to fly much,I'll have to learn to do that.

Joe Connelly

50s Flyer

Randy Ryan · Feb 13, 2004 07:10 PM

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Well, the lousy picture shows my 2 favorite hobbies. The bikes are from L-R: 1948 Indian Roadmaster Chief, 2003 HD Sportster, 1999 Kawasaki 1500 Classic, the models are self explainitory. In the area behind the shed is a circle and I have very nice neighbors that like to watch me fly.

I used to gunsmith, restore player pianos, build custom cars, custom painting bukes and cars, building any kind of model, custom fishing lures, parrot breeding and music. I looked around the shop one day and decided if I were ever going to get any models finished I'd have to "specialize". So, I thinned the field and now I do my 2 favorite things, bikes and model airplanes (which includes my engine building). I still have interest in all the others and expect to do them again someday, but right now I don't miss them and I'm having a ball.

Randy Ryan
AMA 8500
SAM 36
I fly 'em all and love it!

SRiese5283 · Feb 13, 2004 08:04 PM

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Cooking. I studied for four years LOVE it. I wish sometimes I can spend time in the kitchen and have the world go by.
Right now Control line VENTURI’S are keeping me busy. I did Photography. I did Pro Baseball. But my first love……CL Planes

Scott(Chapter 3#)Riese

Scott Riese

Steve Helmick · Feb 13, 2004 08:08 PM

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Besides CL, there's a past in FAI Free Flight, F1A mostly, a bit of F1B and F1C, and AMA gas. Even flew Rudder Only R/C as a teen, when it was one click for right and two for left. I am an avid bass fisherman, have the boat (you bassers come on over, we'll go!). Also like canoeing and bass fishing from the canoe on a peaceful lake without jetskis. I haven't done much shooting since my youth, but have just procured a new High Standard Target .22 pistola, scope equipped, 7.5" barrel. My sister-in-law and her boy-toy/partner are trying to build a new indoor shooting facility a few miles away, so if/when that gets going, I will be ready. Generally like handguns better than long guns or scatterguns. No intentional collecting, no pets (tho have thought about getting another cat or a dog), like various types of music, but no ability. Of course, the Free Flight required a chasebike, and I do like to ride dirt bikes. Still have my old Yam 175MX, which is about the perfect chase bike. I would also like to build some sort of hotrod...a '40 Studebaker Coupe would be ideal, with a Chevy Vortec V-8 and 5 speed.

Steve

http://www.nwskyraiders.com/index.html

David Hoover · Feb 13, 2004 08:21 PM

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Besides the stunt struggle I generally have a home improvement project ongoing, right now I'm installing a pile of knotty pine tongue and groove panelling in the upstairs and getting to know the power miter saw and nail gun very well. I garden along with my wife. I do the power stuff, the things that are beyond her strength and the spraying while she pretty much does the rest. I took up bicycling a couple of years ago - bought an entry level Gary Fisher mountain bike which has since been upgraded with a shock absorbing front fork, in the summer I bike to work 2 or 3 times a week (about 20 km round trip) and every time I'm in a bike shop I drool all over the bikes with disc brakes. I used to play a little guitar but never was good enough or or bothered to practice enough that I could rationalize the expenditure for a Gibson, Fender or the like. I'd love to own a Garrison some time just for the high zoot Griffiths bracing system.

Best, Hoovie

Life is simple. Eat. Sleep. Fly.

DesignMan · Feb 13, 2004 08:24 PM

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Wife of 23 years, 2 cats both about 14 years, 2 kids and their wives. Eagerly awaiting the advent of some grandkids to spoil. And waiting, and waiting....

Then, watching movies, reading Sci-Fi, Photography, Shooting (both fire and air arms), Table Tennis, Archery. The last 3 are currently dormant, but wil resurface.

In the past, bicycling, licensed SCCA race driver, slot cars, tennis, racquetball. Probably all gone forever.

Larry Renger
think S.M.A.L.L.

Big Country Joe · Feb 13, 2004 08:47 PM

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Gave up Stock car racing and professional Lacrosse as well as attempts to get into pro football in late 50's. Kept dinging around with models and finally gave up most hobbies in the late 60's to concentrate on CL flying and Trout fishing. As I was a National Sales manager for two fishing tackle companies I found CL to be a great breakaway from strictly fishing for the Companies R&D etc.
After recovering from an assault that kept me on cruthes and a cane for 13 years I finally recovered enough to get back into Trout fishing as a serious hobby. I live near two small but great Trout streams and fish both on a regular basis. I prefer catch and release and will on occasion eat one.
After fighting and winning a spell of cancer and the removal of one kidney my Sons and my Daughter took me to Alaska for some fabulous Grayling fishing. I also tie my own flies as well.
With all that though I do have to say that control line flying has been the one hobby that has enabled me to keep from becoming totally despondant. The friends I have made (and suprisenly kept) have been a joy to me.

When the weather gets a bit too cold for fishing and flying I spend a great deal of my retirement time researching the 2nd Division AEF as it moved across France in 1918. My Uncle Frank was just a kid when he was killed in June of 18 and after visiting his grave two years ago I began to re-vitalize my interest in WW1. Nuff said.

Nikyvee · Feb 13, 2004 08:57 PM

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Well... I have had a number of the same hobbies as many of you. Those include: motorcycles (raced dirtbikes a little in early 20's, have customized Harley's-now have 2 keepers, a '77 Sportster and a '88 FXR), played at hunting and shooting (including pistols and bows), did a little bit of stamp collecting, alot of photography until eyes got a bit bad, did alot of scuba diving (I live in Sandy Eggo, Cal), way back when did triathlons (not a chance now...), rebuilt cars (mostly old English ones-- Triumph TR3, TR4, 6's, oh yes, Fiats), played with a guitar, but never really learned it, got divorced 2 times, married 3 times....so far... (Don't tell my wife I put that joke in this msg!)

And....drum roll...drum roll... I was a competitive yo-yo er way back before it was popular!!! Seriously; won quite a few local contests, never had the money to attend national events.

Now.... Model airplanes, and collect some yo-yo's and Hot Wheels! Just can't pass up checking out the local hot wheels rack for the Treasure Chests. Those who collect them will know...
Nick Vanmatre

Proparc · Feb 13, 2004 10:27 PM

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Electric Blues Guitar,played for audiences a couple of times. Hope to build my replacement guitar. Building computers. Gave exhibitions and sold my photographic work a long time ago. Main hobby now is to build the most kick%^* Saito 72 powered stunter.

Milton Graham\Proparc

greg hart · Feb 13, 2004 11:17 PM

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I,m 51 years young now. I played percussion sense I was in 5th grade. Have coins I collect. Use to have a Harley I loved, but it was stollen. Plastic scale airplane models are in the past. Had 4 years wood shop in HS. Have been in restaurant management for over 10 years, so cooking is a joy I will always love. Fishing for Steelhead and Salmon. Hunting game birds. But Drumming and UC planes is my main passion.

Greg Hart <><

John Sunderland · Feb 16, 2004 05:57 AM

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>I,m 51 years young now. I played percussion sense I was in
>5th grade. Have coins I collect. Use to have a Harley I
>loved, but it was stollen. Plastic scale airplane models are
>in the past. Had 4 years wood shop in HS. Have been in
>restaurant management for over 10 years, so cooking is a joy
>I will always love. Fishing for Steelhead and Salmon.
>Hunting game birds. But Drumming and UC planes is my main
>passion.

Hmmm... drumming, UC, and a little fishing..we should chat...just found a 71' Premeir five piece set with all original hardware. Its gorgeous!

John S.

John Sunderland

Broken Wings · Feb 13, 2004 11:33 PM

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I collect Coins. A nice thing about collecting coins is that they will never be worth less than there face value. One of my favorites is a coin that has a bump on its outside edge. On one side of the coin the bump is a horses ear. When you flip it over the bump is a womans breast. My father started the collection and it has grown substantially. Coins are nice because there is not alot of work. Start a 50 state quarter collection. One day it might be worth something more than $12.50 (smiles)

Regards,
John Jolley

Bud Morrison · Feb 13, 2004 11:36 PM

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My other hobby.
I retired from driving some years back. Now I crew for the owner of this car who I raced with in our younger years. His son drives.

Currell · Feb 14, 2004 12:11 AM

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I'm a runner. I have completed 20 full marathons, but most of my races lately are around 5K or so. I really have slowed down in the last 10 years. Fell on the ice a week ago, and the knee is sore.

Also, old cars. Right now, I have a 53 Chrysler Imperial (early Hemi), a 67 Cadillac coupe with only 15K miles, and a 57 T-Bird.

No musical skills, but I like Doo Wop from the '50s. Also Blues, like Elmore James, Robert Johnson, etc.

Outside of CL, but within model planes, a little HLG now and then.

Reading...just about anything. Favorite novelists are John LeCarre and Clive Cussler.

Older movies. I kind of group them by Directors. Big fan of Hitchcock (just rewatched Vertigo) and David Lean (Bridge on the River Kwai).

BMWs, as far as new cars are concerned. I am grateful to have an '03 3 Series.

Casual interest in Astronomy, but no further than picking out constellations, planets, stars, etc. Ignorant re telescopes.

Currell

ed n · Feb 13, 2004 11:59 PM

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Amateur astronomy.

High power rocketry.

Amateur radio (kc9fac).

Jake · Feb 14, 2004 12:15 AM

#36 source

Photography, shooting (any kind of gun), old cars, boats, motorcycles, fishing, astronomy, reading, studying history, carpentry, messing with mechanical stuff in general.

Jake

"It'll probably feel real good again, once it quits hurting".

Jim Z · Feb 14, 2004 12:58 AM

#37 source

I have been racing slot cars since the 60's.
I have collected hanguns, enjoy target shooting,
reloading a wide variety of ammo.
I have owned several motorcycles over the years,
I even got into r/c for several years but always
came back to c/l flying.

Jim Z

Tools · Feb 14, 2004 09:21 AM

#38 source

Flyfishing, build rods, tie flies. Really like ALL fishing.

Hunting. Mostly birds, especially dove.

Restoring, cars, tractors, old metal and woodworking machines.

ALL MODEL AIRPLANES, especially c/l, duh. Actually, it's the longest lived of all my hobbies. Probably into woodworking a bit more seriously, however.

Woodworking. Like replicating antiques, queen anne, mission, and other old styles. Do a lot of hand joinery, cutting dovetails, mortise and tenons, hand planing and scraping, etc.

Ham radio, n0kkj, currently advanced class, never could get past 20wpm morse code. That's gone now, new project.

Mechanical puzzles. Metagrobology or something. Fun woodworking projects. Can build MANY puzzles, but not be given the solution by doing so. Take them on boring layovers. Also GREAT bar toys.

Also used to stamp collect, and collect bullets. Have a late 1800's .50 cal rim fire bullet actually found in the field. Kinda cool.

Like birds alot. Have a blue and gold macaw, 17 guineas, 2 peafowl (plus kids' two parakeets). My favorite pet was a bluejay (which I had in the late 90's). Greatest little creature ever till my neighbors dog ate him, boo hoo! Sad thing, as gifted a navy carrier instructor pylot jock that I am, turns out, failed to ever teach that poor bird to fly...clearly my greatest failing in life so far!

I'm lucky to live on 35 acres, so I'll throw in the fact I'm a gentleman mower. I spend enough time mowing to qualify it as a hobby. Do it with my 48 Allis Chalmers G, 49 AC B and 53 AC CA. It takes all three...makes it sporting.

Gardening, I grow LOTS of hot peppers. Anybody want some? And some tomatoes (for salsa for the hot peppers) and other veggies to keep the wifey happy.

BEER BREWING, last but not least. Know what I like about beer? EVERYTHING.

Tools

Mike

Currell · Feb 14, 2004 09:32 AM

#39 source

Tools: Can you fly on those 35 acres? Currell

Tools · Feb 14, 2004 11:45 AM

#44 source

Yep, any and everyone is welcome if you're ever near Chattanooga. Neat town, too, have plenty of room in the house if someone wants to just stay a couple days or whatever.

Might even try to put in a 900' runway for the homebuilt I'd like to build someday. Will have same r/w requirements as a J-3 Cub essentially. 900' is plenty for nice sunday afternoons only.

Tools

Mike

Crash2much · Feb 14, 2004 09:34 AM

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LAST EDITED ON Feb-14-04 AT 10:22 AM (CDT)

Was into the tropicle fish thing for a long time. Sold the fish and got snakes for about 10 years. You know your wife loves you when you let her know something is loose in the house and she doesn't divorce you! Got into guns. Punched paper targets for a long time and then discovered the wonderful world of trap shooting. Rode dirt bikes too. Sold all of those. Very much into backpacking and go on a 7-8 day trip in the High Sierra's every summer to escape phones, TV on and on and on.Catch and eat a bunch of trout while we are there. My main hobby however is my wife of 22 years. She puts up with alot of nonsense from me. A rare find.

Bill

I have no claim to fame, I build more planes than I fly, collect more kits than I build. That about says it, right?

Cary · Feb 14, 2004 09:51 AM

#41 source

Fishing both salt water and fresh.

General boating – SF bay is wonderful

Woodworking – with a house that is 116 years old it is beginning to need some maintenance.

Cars – Sold the 29 Model A and now just work on the son’s Hot Rod Mustang (67)

SCUBA diving – Dive Master – been doing it for 27 years

SCUBA Regulator repair – Hmmm – not really a hobby but it is very therapeutic after a day at work.

Cary

dickbyron · Feb 14, 2004 10:51 AM

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I love to build furniture or anything from wood. I went to school to be a cabnet maker in Weymouth Mass in 1956, 57, 58, 59. My teacher was Bill Dwyer. He did the first cabnet making show on WGBH in Boston in 1958.
Photography
Cooking, ( maybee eating more) My boss said some people eat to live, I live to eat.

N gauge trains.
Z gauge trains.

DICK BYRON
3325 GALAWAY BAY DR.
GRAND PRAIRIE, TX 75052
972-336-0445
http://www.dickbyron.com
"Adversity is the path to truth"
-Lord Byron

thaddiii · Feb 14, 2004 11:06 AM

#43 source

I do Cowboy Action Shooting (we dress up like real cowboys and have shooting compititions using pre-1900's guns), I trap shoot and shoot sporting clays. I reload all my own ammo. My other half is a Barrel Racer so I spend a lot of time working with for and around our horses (new baby to arrive some time in the next 45 days or so). We also collect antique tack and saddles.

ThaddIII

Serge Krauss · Feb 14, 2004 01:14 PM

#46 source

Before returning to CL flying, my life-long passions were auto racing and the violin.

The first race I attended was the 1947 Indianapolis "500", when I was two. I keep that streak going at well over half a century for old times sake - perhaps a ritual - since I am dissatisfied and troubled by the state of racing in this country. I raced karts for a number of years, usually winning in local and regional sprint events - WKA District 6 open class champ in 1986 or 1987. 'guess I'm "retired"; my enduro kart and equipment are for sale, and I have finally stopped waking up dreaming of driving Mid-Ohio or Gratten. I was treasurer of the National Auto Racing Historical Society (became a 'region' of the VMCCA). Today I still like to read the history of racing and its great participants. One of my favorite experiences was driving a few laps in the then newly restored Dean Van Lines Ewing/Watson roadster that Eddie Sachs put on the Indianapolis pole in 1960 - 1961. Boyhood heroes included Jimmy Bryan, Tommy Hinnershitz, Roger Ward, Juan Fangio, and Mario Andretti. I also read deeply enough into the sport's history to have favorites dating back to Ralph DePalma. When I saw Foyt take the pole at Milwaukee (1966?) in his Lesovski dirt car against rear-engined competition, I begrudged him some admiration too.

I've played professionally as a violinist and continue to play an occasional gig and in my volunteer orchestra of which I am past President. I have always loved the instrument and have studied its great makers, players, and acoustics over the years. Favorite fiddler: Nathan Milstein. I have also performed folk music with Gusti (wifely one) on some of her concerts and for two summers at the Bar-C north of Ouray Colorado.

I joined EAA in 1972, when I was working on my KR-1 homebuilt (project sold when I moved back north). I got interested in tailless aircraft while researching them for a possible susequent homebuilt project. That escalated into a bibliographical project that continues in the form of a published bibliography of related material. The most recent (sold out) edition totaled about 340 pages. Believe it or not, I have spent many happy hours in the dusty stacks of great libraries engaged in my aviation "archaeology". There is enough material here for another 50-70 pages, but I am neglecting it for my CL modeling. However, I consider it a hobby.

What I know of aerodynamics is from self study, much of it related to this project and my modeling. I like aircraft design.

Recently I had to give up running (that had slowed to jogging) due to cumulative damage. So I have been bicycling on my Bianchi road bike. This could become quite a hobby, but the time required conflicts with CL activities.

I read a lot of fiction and some biographical and technical stuff. From Sci Fi I have gravitated to fantasy and some mysteries.

Actually my wife is not only my best friend, but sort of a hobby too. Archiving her performing career has been an ongoing project that will finally be in high gear again, when I get a color laser printer to digitize and print out the "scrapbook".

Meanwhile, I'm enjoying building and flying again and hope to be out of my "crash and burn" phase this spring.

Serge Krauss

Dr Spark · Feb 14, 2004 01:41 PM

#47 source

Yet another violinist here! Classicly trained in the "Russian School", I enjoy playing chamber music (especially the piano trio literature).

other hobbies:

1. building and shooting black powder muskets (I have a shooting range in my front yard).
2. restoring and flying antique aircraft.
3. helping #2 son restore and rebuild pianos (Carter Piano Service).
4. ham radio (K6BSU)

floyd

Currell · Feb 16, 2004 02:59 PM

#70 source

- 1961.
>Boyhood heroes included Jimmy Bryan, Tommy Hinnershitz,
>Roger Ward, Juan Fangio, and Mario Andretti. I also read
>deeply enough into the sport's history to have favorites
>dating back to Ralph DePalma. When I saw Foyt take the pole
>at Milwaukee (1966?) in his Lesovski dirt car against
>rear-engined competition, I begrudged him some admiration
>too.

Mauri Rose, 3 time winner of the 500, was a consulting engineer here for a while.

Currell

jmmroz · Feb 14, 2004 06:25 PM

#49 source

Well, since I bought my '04 Dodge Dakota P/U; filling the tank is my new hobby. I swear, every time I get in it; it needs gas.

aaronl · Feb 14, 2004 08:34 PM

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LAST EDITED ON Feb-14-04 AT 10:05 PM (CDT)

playstion 2
xbox
gamecube
etc....

playing those video games and hanging with my wife/3 year old daughter are about my only hobbies really...

This is Alexandria Marie Little, the picture is a few months old but she looks pretty much the same...
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Bill Little · Feb 14, 2004 10:14 PM

#51 source

Yep, that's her!
Of course she's Ta Ta's girl.

Bill <><

(spoken like a true Grandfather, and I'm proud of her and her Mom and Dad)

Just an Old Advanced flyer.

John Sunderland · Feb 15, 2004 07:18 AM

#53 source

Hey Aaron that is a beautiful little hobby you have there! I missed parts of my sons growing up years due to divorce and I am thoroughly enjoying my partner Lynn's boys. It is like getting a second chance to be Dad and I never expected I would enjoy them so much. You blink and they are adults. You cant replace that time! Enjoy it while you can.

John Sunderland

Derek Barry · Feb 18, 2004 12:08 PM

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LAST EDITED ON Feb-18-04 AT 01:14 PM (CDT)

I play bass in a hard rock band, play video games, draw or any other kind of art I can think of.

Most of my time goes to these two (Sara and Gavin) when I have them. I am going through a divorse, but hey what can you do.

You are looking at the future "Barry stunt team"

Derek

Paul van Dort · Feb 15, 2004 09:37 AM

#54 source

Music: I've been playing bassguitar since I was 18 yo and double bass since 2002. (I am now 43). A little piano playing not worth to mention (but I do mention it!

)

http://www.insideout.has.it

Motorcycles: Used to own a '73 BMW R75/5, but i've sold it recently and bougth me a MZ Skorpion 660 cc monocylinder. There is something about monocylinders, no? This bike does not have a lot of power, but it is extremely handy.

http://www.motorcycle.com/mo/mcmz/skorptour.html

Fishing: I like to go fishing for bass and pike in a small river about 1 km from my house. Small rod, artificial bait and I return what I catch. Don't want to eat them because I could get poisened...

Internet: visiting C/L related forums and give my point of view now and then...

Hofstadter's Law:
Everything takes longer than you think it will, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

bhadley0 · Feb 15, 2004 11:41 AM

#55 source

Besides CL PA I like:

Field, 3D and Target Archery, both Recurve and Compound
Playing Classical Guitar
Classical concerts and music collecting and listening
Mt. biking and Road cycling
Fly fishing in the streams of Colorado
Skiing, but havent had the time lately
Family Camping and Hiking
Brewing Beer and making mead
Enjoy watching Formula 1 racing
Used to shoot trap but that was long ago...
Brian

kdheath · Feb 15, 2004 12:31 PM

#56 source

LAST EDITED ON Feb-15-04 AT 07:45 PM (CDT)

Photography (love my old clunky Nikons and Kodachrome)
Two Shetland Sheepdogs (Shelties)
Trains all over the place (N, HO, O)
History of the Frisco RR and collecting memorabilia
History of the NASA Apollo project
Occasional small bore rifle shooting and looking to buy a pistol
Read Read Read
Used to play double bass
Used to SCCA Solo race and mess with go-karts
Open wheel racing-F1 and hoping that IRL/CART get their #### together
Member of PAMPA, AMA, EAA, and one each CL, FF and RC clubs
(We get to fly FF in the Mineapolis Metrodome a few times a year.
Too cool!)
Working on PPL

After spending some time browsing in RC web sites/forums, I think most of the real brain power landed here in CLPA! This is a sharp bunch of guys!

Steve Scott · Feb 15, 2004 12:47 PM

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LAST EDITED ON Feb-15-04 AT 01:24 PM (CDT)

Played in a marching/concert band (cornet) in elementary & JHS. Orthodontia work ended that prior to HS. Did football games & indoor concerts. Placed 2nd in a cornet duet competition at Middle Tennessee State College in the early '60s.

I did small bore (.22) indoor rifle competition in HS (won varsity school letter & NRA awards), no longer active.

Hot rodded my 53hp '69 VW beetle up to 125hp but sailboats (see below) saw that interest wain.

Took up photography (35mm) in college and afterwards. Won a few competitions (photos link). Still have most of my '70s era Pentax equipment but got tired of dragging 3 bags of photo gear everywhere.

Learned to sail while in JHS, bought a 16' trailered sloop after HS, moved up to a 21' weekender sloop I kept in the water. Learned that females really dug guys with sailboats . Really got into racing & cruising. Moved up to a 22' keel boat. Won a few minor races, one major race when we beat 40 other larger yachts including the '62 America's Cup defender Weatherly. Sold boat when I left the PacNW but continued to sail while on active duty in Boston and at the Naval War College in Newport, RI. Watched the '83 Dennis Connor America's Cup loss. No longer a boat owner, I still crew for another married couple and watch ESPN's coverage of yacht racing.

Got a set of highland bagpipes as my HS graduation present. Learned to play them (correctly) then joined a bagpipe band. Spent 22 years playing in parades, civic events, indoor shows and highland games. Played for the Bushes at an Andover Academy (MA) graduation, WA Governor Mike Lowry's inauguration, solo piper for MA Governor Mike Dukakis, a 3 star USAF general and the band opened a Rod Stewart concert one year. Our band performed at the 1974 World's Fair (Spokane). Current set of pipes is a 1915 ivory/silver mounted set of Hendersons which was part of a commemoration set presented to the 43rd Cameron Highlanders, Canadian Expeditionary Force of Winnipeg. The pipes were played during the battle of Flanders and has a nick in the bass drone from a piece of German shrapnel. The original piper survived the war. I am now the 3rd owner of this treasured instrument.

While on active duty after college I took up scuba diving, hang gliding and downhill skiing. No longer active in any at this point.

Now that I'm married and have kids I do the model aircraft (RC and CL), computers and volunteer for scouts. Also dinking around with basic woodworking but only have a tablesaw and router so far.

Oh yeah, I do have some common goldfish in a 38 gal tank and a 15 gal planted tank. Would like to try salt water in the future.

Gary Weaver · Feb 15, 2004 12:53 PM

#58 source

I have several Tesla Coils. The smallest is a desk top model and the largest is shown in this picture making 12 foot long sparks.

I target shoot high powered rifles. I reload my own shells for my Winchester 300 magnum. I can hit a 1 gallon plastic milk jug full of water from a 1/4 mile or 400 yards. I save up milk jugs and soft drink bottles, reload 100 bullets with 165 gr bullets and go target shooting.

I like cave exploring too. Tennessee is full of caves I have been in most of the caves within a 1 hour drive of my house. I take my lunch, 2 flashlights, extra batteries, extra light builds, rope, other stuff and go caving with some other folks.

I like to ride bicycles. Its fun to ride with a tour group. I use to ride 100 miles a day which is about a 3.5 hr ride with no stops. I can't seem to find the time to ride much any more and there is just too much road traffic now days. My best friend got ran over by a car in April.

Hicking and exploring is fun. I have hicked the Grand Canyon twice. I hope to hike it one more time with my 2 boys all the way to the water falls before I get too old to walk.

I use to have a lot of fun with fireworks. After M-80s were out lawed I use to buy dynamite and shoot it like firecrackers. Graduated to bigger and better things. We set off 1000 lbs of ANFO in my uncles field and blew a hole about 60 ft deep and 200 ft across. I have it on video. My uncle has a nice pond now. I have not shot even as much as a firecracker off in 15 years. That use to seem like fun but now it seems dangerous.

Snow skiing is great fun especially at a place with some good ski slopes. I have always wanted to try sky diving but I worry the parachute won't open. I don't want to turn into ground pizza.

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Gary Weaver

d_pellerin · Feb 15, 2004 07:09 PM

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LAST EDITED ON Feb-15-04 AT 07:16 PM (CDT)

Hobbies that have come and gone...

Control line models from age 12 to 18, retread from 25 to 30, and again for the past three years.

Cars in the 16-20 age range (17 of them in the space of four years, including--god knows why--a V8 Vega project) along with various street bikes (my favorite was a Triumph Trophy 900, just sold that last year -- sniff).

I was pretty intensively into juggling for a few years, went to a couple of national conventions (yes, there are such things) and did a few street shows. Was never actually very good at that, though.

I've always liked hiking and close-to-the-ground traveling. In the past few years I've climbed/hiked Mt. Rainier, Mt. Whitney, and couple of minor peaks in Ecuador (I did not succeed in climbing Cotopaxi, and that mountain darn near killed me).

I like shooting pictures, usually have a camera with me but I wouldn't claim to be a photographer. And I write stuff (journals and short stories that will never see the light of day). I read when I have time (travel narratives, literary fiction and non-fiction, sometimes layman science books). The crossword puzzles in the bathroom count as a hobby too, I suppose.

Sailing is my current passion, but given the work schedule I haven't been out as much as I should (logged only about 35 days out last year, down from 50+ two years ago).

And then there's the garden... My wife's hobby really but guess who builds the fences and decks and digs all those holes?

Dave

JohnT4051 · Feb 15, 2004 07:47 PM

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LAST EDITED ON Feb-15-04 AT 08:03 PM (CDT)

Another fascinating thread ...

Besides CL flying (racing, combat, stunt) and support activities (editing newsletters and putting on contests) ...
-- Tennis. I play two or three times a week. Used to play softball on one or two teams every summer but got too old.
-- Photography
-- I did quite a bit of acting and directing in community theater before an all-swing-shift work schedule caused me to have to give it up
-- Avid reading, and I did a little bit of bookselling for a while
-- Music collecting (jazz, blues, rock, folk, bluegrass, classical, u-name-it) (not as a "collector" just to have it; I actually listen to all of it). Did jazz and blues reviews for a newspaper for a while.
-- Movies
-- Travel, when my wife and I can afford it. Have made two trips to Mediterranean; probably won't be able to go again for a long time.
-- Baseball. I go to a lot of minor league games here in Eugene, Ore., where I live, and make a couple of trips a year to Seattle (Mariners fan) and Oakland (daughter lives there and is an A's fan) for games. Played fantasy baseball for a number of years.
-- Art appreciation: My wife is an artist and I spend a lot of time with her in museums and in the study of fine art. She is the expert, I get a little knowledge by following her around.
--jt

http://members.aol.com/JohnT4051/NorthwestCL.html

SteveMoon · Feb 15, 2004 08:47 PM

#61 source

Interesting thread.

As far as other hobbies go I am into 1/32 slot cars. My son Jake has just informed me that our car collection is now up to 80 cars. He is putting in some practice laps right now.

I also enjoy building 1/20 Tamiya plastic model kits of Formula One race cars. I am a big time fan of racing, especially Formula One. As Steve McQueen said in 'LeMans': "to a driver, racing is life, everything before and after is just waiting".

I guess I should also consider my love of Alfa Romeos a hobby. I've had 5 of them and am always looking for another. I currently have a 1985 GTV6 with the 2.5L motor replaced by a 3.0L motor from an 87 Milano Verde.

Later, Steve

kenwstr · Feb 15, 2004 09:18 PM

#62 source

Me it's :

Fly fishing ( The art of not catching fist, with style. )
It's summer drought here is Aus highest temperature in years
yesterday. I think the trout have all died of heat stroke!

Other fishing

Make, play, sell Inca flutes, Quena and Zampona mostely.

Mineral collecting.

Sailing. Started in MJ then Vagabond and Laser II.

kayaking (white water) used to do well in slalom.

Regards,
Ken

ash · Feb 16, 2004 03:09 AM

#63 source

My father tried to get me into model railways, but I couldn't resist the temptation of CL for long... Not enough racing in the model railway scene

I've done BMX racing , played bass guitar in a rock band and restored four Honda NSRs as a paying hobby... I won't be able to revisit the motorcycle restoration for a while, but I still have half of my '92 NSR racebike out the back. There are a couple of cars on the to-do list ahead of the next bike, not to mention a hotrod, a GT40 replica and a couple of backyard supercars on the wishlist...

Right now I'm in the process of turning electric guitar building from a paying hobby into a business venture. I just cut a deal to run the Ibanez/Yamaha service centre for NZ, and I have a number of my own designs for production as high end guitars and as kits for budding luthiers.

Top of the "fun things to do list" is CL. After ruining a large portion of my fleet at a very rainy contest I have now to rebuild my arsenal, one event at a time starting with stunt, then slow combat, then goodyear, then speed...

--Welcome to the only sport where dope is not only legal, but often recommended!

Rob · Feb 16, 2004 05:20 AM

#64 source

LAST EDITED ON Feb-16-04 AT 05:31 AM (CDT)

Woodworking- Have a 1913 Craftsman style house so enjoy making my own Mission style furniture. I'am now restoring the house to the original floorplan. Have finished the bathroom complete with clawfoot tub.
Off-Roading- Built a 1946 Willy CJ-2a rockcrawler. 302 Ford with nitrous oxide for the sand and mud! Have done all the major trails in Ca.
Collect Stanley Planes- Bench and Block. Have about 100.
Have a Koi pond- Keep about 20 of the critters.
CL Planes- Love to build them, need to learn to fly them. Repairs keep me very busy!
Antique Cars- Have restored a 1927 Oakland that was a local show winner. A 1947 Plymonth 4 door and a 1956 Ford 2-door Ranch Wagon.
Rob Johnson
Orange,CA.

Currell · Feb 16, 2004 03:05 PM

#71 source

>Antique Cars- Have restored a 1927 Oakland that was a local
>show winner. A 1947 Plymonth 4 door and a 1956 Ford 2-door
>Ranch Wagon.

Rob: I'll mention that the Oakland was the forerunner to the Pontiac. (Pontiac, MI is in Oakland County). That is a rare one you have.

Always liked the 46-49 Plymouth coupe. (The very early 49s actually were carryover '48s, with the older body).

Chrysler build quality was great, then. Currell

Rob · Feb 16, 2004 09:23 PM

#73 source

The Oakland was also the first car with four wheel brakes, and the first to use enamel paint. I have a Sprot Coupe, complete with a "golf club access" door into the trunk. Great car.
The Plymonth has the largest rear seating area I've ever seen. One could get lost back there. The "suicide" rear doors are also a nice touch. All of my antique and classic cars are restored to stock condition,with the exception of my CJ-2a, which is the Hot Rod of the group.
Rob Johnson
Orange,CA.

elmores · Feb 16, 2004 06:04 AM

#66 source

Music!

I (attempt) to play guitar, banjo, mandolin and dulcimer.

I like most sorts of 'American roots music'.

My main loves are Blues and 'Old time' but along the way I take in Hawaiian (Sol Hoopii), Popular (Frank Crumit), Country (Jimmie Rodgers, Carter Family, Hank Williams), Cajun, Sacred Harp singing (I'm listening to some as I write), early black gospel (Washington Phillips, Blind Willie Johnson).

I also like old movies both British and American - mainly comedies.

I'm just a past centred guy I guess.

Tony

http://www.the.elmores.btinternet.co.uk/telmore.html

Steven Yampolsky · Feb 16, 2004 10:30 AM

#68 source

Hey! I'm not the only person that enjoys Formula 1! Anyways, I think it is very nice to see so many interesting hobbies. What does it say about us as a group? Are we curious people that are facinaded by different things or are we a pathetic group non-socalites that don't have a life?

I consider my hobbies as an extension of my personality. I find people without hobbies/interests boring. Most common excuse I hear is that our lives are too busy to have a hobby. Bullocks! There are 168 hours in a week. 49 hours is spent sleeping(7hr/day). 50 hours spent working. That leaves us with 69 hours to do everything else. Surely one can find 3 hours to dedicate to a hobby!

I find that with a newborn I have very little time for hobbies and other interests. That's why I dedicate my "hobby" time to one interest: CL stunt. My other interests are low effort ones such as Formula 1 racing and Motorcycles.

Formula 1 only has a dozen or so races a year. Keeping track of them is fairly easy. Unfortunately F1 is expanding the number of races. If it gets to much, I'll have to leave it until I have more time. For now I am content to read F1 news while I eat lunch.

Motorcycles fascinate me. They are powerfull, beautifull and make me fee more "connected" to the road and my surroundings. I can smell fresh air, feel the temperature changes as I go through a valley, feel the asphalt throbbing in my hands. Since I don't have time to dedicate to simple 'riding', the only time I ride is to and from work.

My other hobbies that are on the back burner are flying airplanes(PPL-ASEL) and computer gaming. I decided to stop persuing flying for a simple reason: the state of GA in the US is horrible. Same goes for computer games.

Steven Yampolsky
Webmaster for www.control-line.org

devcon9 · Feb 16, 2004 10:41 AM

#69 source

Music ( Guitar player/Electric )
Carp Fishing
HTML dabbling..!
Micro indoor RC and indoor free flight.
Occasional 'Outdoor' RC flying ( but it bores me rigid.!!plus I get fed up with people going,'ooooh I would'nt start that motor without an Electric starter')

Good Flying

Tony

VonKobelt · Feb 16, 2004 03:41 PM

RE%3A What other hobbies do you have...#72 source

Day after this I broke my 5th leg.......
At least it got me flying stunt.

VonKobelt

dirtydan · Feb 17, 2004 02:25 PM

RE: RE%3A What other hobbies do you have#75 source

Day after this I broke my 5th leg.......
At least it got me flying stunt.
VonKobelt

You have *five* legs?

That in itself sounds like an interesting hobby activity.

Dan

VonKobelt · Feb 17, 2004 03:53 PM

RE: RE%3A What other hobbies do you have#76 source

Yeah, makes buying shoes a real hassle too - always end up with one spare....

VonKobelt

Randy Ryan · Feb 17, 2004 04:42 PM

RE: RE%3A What other hobbies do you have#79 source

HMMM, Does that mean that when you break your sixth leg you'll be able to break even on footwear?

Randy Ryan
AMA 8500
SAM 36
I fly 'em all and love it!

VonKobelt · Feb 17, 2004 08:58 PM

RE: RE%3A What other hobbies do you have#81 source

Nah, fives enough I reckon. At least when you crash your toy plane you get to walk away every time......

VonKobelt

Steven Adler · Feb 17, 2004 03:53 PM

#77 source

Brew Beer, Bake Bread, Cook, High Power Rocketry, IPSC Combat Pistol, Shoot, Hunt, Fish, Camp, Bow Hunt. and fix Airplanes(although they pay me for that one.)
Steven Adler

dirtydan · Feb 17, 2004 04:20 PM

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My primary interests are my grand-urchins.

For example, my son's oldest has now out-grown his first quad (they look like 4-wheeled motorcycles to the uninitiated), a 50cc two-stroke device.

He now has an 80cc Yamaha Predator.

Ethan is five years old.

The first quad had stickers all over it saying the rider has to be six. And of course he wasn't. Isn't.

The new quad--my son and I picked it up about a month ago--has stickies saying the rider must be at least 12 years old. Again, he isn't...

I love it.

Dan

JimW · Feb 17, 2004 07:51 PM

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My primary hobby is more of an avocation. I've been field trialing bird dogs from horseback for nearly 25 years. To that extent I keep a kennel of English setters (9 at last count) and 4 Walking horses. I also keep a dozen pigeons and 50 or so quail in a flight pen for training purposes. I keep all these critters on 12 acres halfway between Orlando and Tampa. I've campaigned my dogs throughout the south and midwest. To get there, I have an extended cab Dodge diesel trucks pulling a 34 foot Hart aluminum stock trailer with living quarters. Although the trial season runs from October through April, it pretty much a year round deal, what with the training of young dogs and keeping the older dogs in condition.
I also enjoy salt water fly fishing and spend a lot of my spare time prowling the flats on the east coast chasing Trout, Redfish, and Snook. I used to spend a fair amount of time in the evening tying flies but since I got back into U/C, I spend that time building. I paid my college tuition for several years tying salt water flies for Orvis and fresh water streamers and dry flies for Dick Bittner's fly fishing shop in New Hampshire. For you folks that tie your own flies, Dick developed his own strain of grizzly roosters and helped out the folks at Metz with their grizzly program way back when. When Dick retired in the early 80's, I managed to acquire a pair of necks from his breeding stock. I've never used them, they are exquisite.
I've been a Ham since 1976 but I haven't been really active in years. Haven't fired up my low band rig in 15 years. 2 meter is ridiculous these days, reminds me of CB in the 70's. I only kept my mobile rigs for the phone patch, but cell phones have pretty much killed that reason. I used to really enjoy working the skip with my 6 meter rig (a converted 100 watt GE Prog Line) but it really raised heck with the neighbor's tv's (no suprise) so I quit before they lynched me.
I also a bit of an amatuer musician. Took 8 years of organ lessons at my mothers insistence, always hated it. Took up the guitar in high school, pissed off my parents. I still play, I have a 25 year old Alvarez Yari. It's a Martin copy, but it's actually a better guitar than the Martins were at that time. Also have a Lace Huntington, a nice Strat copy. You guitar players will recognize Lace as the pickup people. I am also putting together a guitar kit, a D18 copy. It'll be my Bluegrass guitar when I'm finished, but it's going to take a while. I'm in no hurry. Like many of you, I've got more interests than spare time. Oh well.
One nice thing about living where I do is the close proximity of our "flying circle". Here, my 10 year old son is learning to fly one of Mogren's Plastic Fantastics. Loads of fun

Jim Womack