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Hobbies.... well let's see...
I crochet, I knit, I sew... since childhood.
I belong to a Local Ren Group and make my costumes.
I do ceramics. I make Dolls...(20 some years) mostly miniature porcelain dolls and Faeries.
I do Beadings and collect rocks. My husband calls me Lucy from Lucy & Desi's movie "The Long Long Trailer".. since I'll stop the car to pick up rocks along side the road.
I am really very new to Mead making... since Sept. I do genealogy (20 some years)...
I'm also a collector of things... quite often vintage and general junque.
So basically, "I've got lots of irons in the fire" as my Dad would say.
I read Historical Romance Novels as well.
I think that's it... prolly more.. just can't think of them all.

:-* Suzy Q, Brewmistress
 
Longsword martial arts. Italian medieval sword fighting. I took a class on it and I plan to go back. We study from The Flos Duellatorum, a book the was written in Italy in 1410 by a man named Fiore De Liberi. Very fun stuff, I can't get enough of it.
 
haven' had a lot of luck with other hobbies. was into ham radio for a while, then everyone I talked to abandoned the hobby when the internet started to bloom... started to play with computers for a hobby, now that turned into my job, so it's not as much fun anymore....

Just started making Mead, (1st batch is close to done now...) hopefully i can turn THAT into a job too!


other than that i think i will collect Dust for my next hobby..... ;D
 
Well making just about anything makes me happy... I've managed to turn my favorite into a career. So to begin with in my daily life I’m a goldsmith and work bench at a local, well respected, family-owned jewellery shop. As for the hobbies I think I’ll lay them down in points.

-Blacksmithing (though I don’t have access to the space needed as I’m in an apt at the moment)
-Knifemaking (same problem as above though at the moment)
-Ceramics, throwing pottery on a wheel (another curtailed by the reduced space)
-Silk dye painting
-Weaving
-Making herbal potions and lotions
-Lapidary and stone carving
-Sewing
-Gardening (lol not as hard as I thought it would be in an apt.. though they take up their fair share of space in the winter)
-Hiking and biking depending on season (i hate biking in the cold)

And in my spare time plotting how i can make room for all of these and build a home to my specs... so much $$ involved in this one.. but hay it's for the rest of my life so i might as well plan carefully and do it right.
 
Anime
Gardening
Hiking and camping
Beer and wine making
BBQ and smoking meats
Frankensteining computers (building/over clocked/power gaming rigs)
Reading American History, Marine Corps History, Horror, Sci Fi, Fantasy

Always have been curious about cheese making and roasting my own coffee, just haven't crossed those lines yet. ;D
 
-Playing fiddle, banjo, guitar (celtic & oldtime music)
-banjo building (built one kit, about to finish first one from scratch)
-audio books; historical & some fiction (no time for real books....recommend audible.com!!)
-tearing apart & upgrading computers (mostly my own..never satisfied!)
-digital home recording...just got a new Presonus Firebox!
-cheese; not into making it, but very happy to eat it!
-jogging; more painful since turning 42!
-latest hobby.....Federal Income Tax Return >:(
-best hobby.....playing with my 2-year old boy :D
 
Banjo building kit? That sounds totally cool, do you have a web link? :) I am very interested in doing that.
 
Vicky Rowe said:
I figured that was Python......

And we're seriously considering having cheese makers actively participate in the next MeadFest....

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid.....

Muahahahahahahaahhaaa 8)
Click to expand...

Whats so special about the cheesemakers.......I don't think it was meant to be taken literaly I think he is refering to any manufacturer of Dairy products.

Got to love that Monty Python
 
but on the serious side, I enjoy Scuba Diving, Hiking, I am a Native American and I Make Native Crafts, I do Blacksmithing, I carve Antler and Stone, and I am a Traditional Mens Dancer at Native Pow Wows.
 
Mousebender - It's not much of a cheese shop really, is it?

Wensleydale - Finest in the district, sir!

Mousebender - And what leads you to that conclusion?

Wensleydale - Well, it's so clean.

Mousebender - Well, it's certainly unconaminated by cheese.


....what a delightful skit!
 
Mousebender: Do you in fact have any cheese at all?

Wensleydale: Yes sir . . . well no sir, not a scrap. I was deliberately wasting your time.
 
My personal favorites include:

1) Gardening - plants (and the growing of food and other useful plants) are probably my most passionate pursuit! I've got a wonderful orchard here in SE Texas of citrus, figs, persimmons, mulberries and pomegranates which I hope to incorporate into my melomels as they begin producing more abundantly!
2) Cooking - I'm definitely a health-nut and enjoy cooking everything from scratch. Can't follow a recipe to save my life (which will perhaps lead me to exciting discoveries in the mead/beer brewing worlds). I used to be a butcher and love to BBQ (especially lamb, and smoking with mesquite).
3) Biking/cycling - getting ready to do a 200 mile ride in 2 weeks!
4) Camping/hiking - particularly in west Texas
5) Anime, Roleplaying
6) Reading - SciFi, Fantasy, History, Ecology, Poetry, other hobbies (see above)
 
1. Being with my 1 1/2 year old daughter and my wife;
2. Chilling out with a glass of mead or homebrew;
3. Cooking;
4. Doing/teaching aikido;
5. Reading;
6. Tending my garden;
7. Grooving on my great (and massive) CD collection.

In sum, trying to lead a full life - being a good husband & father, nurturing my physical & emotional health, enjoying friends & family, and mastering those personal passions which keep me whole.
 
Wow, what diversified talents and interests! :D

As for myself, and in no particular order:
Bass guitar - Music, food water = the only 3 things I couldn't live without
Speaker building (home theatre, PA, musical instrument)
Drawing, Painting (not as much as I should as of late though)
Photography - All my equipment is the old "photo-chemical" type. Anybody remember those days? ;)
Cooking - Which I consider in many ways to be modern day alchemy when done right ;) (which lead me to mead making)
Grass growing - I'm obsessed with having a nice yard :)
Marksmanship - Great therapy as well ;)
Frankensteinian computing - Cheapest way to have the best computer (or cluster) on the block!
Movies - I have quite an extensive collection of DVD's - all genres
Camping/Hiking/Enjoying nature in all it's forms - Another great form of therapy that seems to cleanse the mind and empower the soul
 
Cooking would have to be in there....homemade bread, chilie, stews...Yummy,
Yummy (can you name that children's television
program?)
Road biking/Off-road biking...what better way to enjoy the great outdoors and get
some exercise in as well!
Gardening/Landscaping.........Live in northern VA, so there isn't much land around
here that hasen't been developed or randomly
paved, but the parents have a good sized yard, and
ours is big enough...so I can still play gardener!
Pretending to be a two year old....okay, so it is not a hobby, but when you are
playing with playdough, driving small plastic
lawnmovers through the livingroom, can recite
most Disney movies, and actually translate
from two year old talk to "normal English"....it's
close enough!

Last but not least is keeping up on my Monty Python watching...got the entire Flying Circus collection last Christmas and have not gone a week without watching at least one DVD. That is in addition to the feature films....gotta love the Python!
;D
 
I am pretty much the one responsible for the welfare of my family, including some with chronic ailments, and my elderly mother - so there is not much time to develop other serious, time-consuming hobbies apart from homebrewing.

Other things that I enjoy doing are necessary, not hobbies: maintaining my (small) soap business; staying up to date with herbology; reading (for some reason I'm seriously into Shakespeare at this time, which delights my husband the English Lit major); fine cooking and sourdough baking; nature walks and foraging for medicinal/edible herbs; working out 3 x weekly. I also assist a Special Ed teacher with the English material she needs to read for her doctorate (translating, making her think in English). She insists on paying for my time, but I would do it free because I like her and enjoy the work. I sometimes run courses on natural skin care. Having recently made friends with a beekeeper (who turns out to be one of the country's major honey producers) I am putting together a talk on making mead which will hopefully be held at this guy's premises.

After a day's work I often pop a movie into the DVD and chill with a chilled glass of guess what.

Miriam
 
Im fairly new to homebrewing, but one of my long time hobbies and aspirations is flying, I currently am undertaking my private pilot course rating and hope to continue on to becoming a professional pilot.

Skinner
 
I used to shoot traditional archery, unfortunately time no longer permits.
 
Well, other than mead-making (and a soon-to-happen foray into brewing my own beer), I sew/costume, garden, walk (being in Vancouver, there are some really beautiful areas of the city to wander thru), go camping in the summer, and am heavily addicted to EverQuest 2 :-[
 
My mother grew up on a 25 acre fruit orchard in Vancouver. Things being as they were (namely us living in Virginia and bouncing back and forth to Germany every two years), I have only been up there a couple times. It is (or at least was) an incredibly beautiful corner of the world!

I sympathize with your EQ2 addiction :-\ I had a hell of a time kicking an EQ1 addiction myself....and had to boycot Best Buy when EQ2 came out for fear that I would crumble! I didn't though....instead I bought Doom 3 and Halflife :D

~Geoffrey
 
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