Other Hobbies

“Read
Sew
Volunteer (for my local h.s.)
Waste Co. Time”

“climbing ...mountaineering, rock and ice
caving
snowshoeing
skiing, backcountry, x-c and tele skiing
geocaching
reading
playing with the "puter"
snowcamping (that would be considered 4 season backpacking, huh)”

“I have thought about canine instruction on my time off but I would miss a day here and there. It worked with my previous dogs.
Hunting,reading,writing,fighting fire oops thats a job. Kids, fishing, weight lifting,eating, beer or wine and mtn biking. Women at one time but you can't have hobbies and a wife.”

“For relaxation:
gardening
reading

For stimulation:
running
biking
x-country skiing (2nd yr)
snowshoeing
length swimming (used to be instructor/lifeguard)

rennovation of our 105 yr old farmhouse
raising 4 teenagers”

“Other hobbies.. hMMmm.. I have an interest in information security (or the lack of it; i.e., subject to hackers)

Any free time I have outside of work goes to keeping wife happy.. *lol*.. which trust.. is a challenge sometimes.”

“pepperDog, I figured you for an agility person! Agility is huge fun, no doubt about it.

I am still training both Jazz and Sprock to compete in obedience, and the funny thing is I don't really like the obedience scene. too many people treating their dogs poorly for my tastes. Still, I want to get CD's on both dogs, more to prove it can be done without inflicting pain and confusion on a dog than anything else. Tracking is kind of neat. My boy Sprocket loves to track!”

“BobK

I went to an AKC show yesterday and couldn't believe all the clean dogs!! Not something you see at an agility trial! They also had earthdogs, which I had never seen - they weren't clean! I watched a little obedience but why do that when you can do agility???

Delta, my first agility dog, is an aussie border collie (?) mix so AKC wasn't an option. My new dog, Ticha, is an ILPable Australian Cattle Dog so I have to figure out if I want to run her in AKC. She won't be ready to trial until spring.”

“Let's see. . .

Hiking
Biking
Mountaineering
Camping
Backpacking
Technical climbing
Writing
Cultural Stuff
Wine, Wine, Wine!!! (No, not whine!)

I will be trying boarding and skiing this year. Whether or not they become hobbies, remains to be seen.”

“Winter's coming:

-Skiing (back-country and alpine)
-Running, running and more running.....
-Back yard hockey rink! (They say most accidents happen at home)
-Making a some home brew.

I think Snow nymph and mountainchick should go head-to -head in some sort of Iron Woman competition! You Da Women!”

“Is motorcycling a hobby, well put me down for motorcycling, and kayaking. I like cooking new recipes. I put a lot of sweat into my cooking, anyone for chicken soup, lol? My next hobby will be gardening, as the house I am buying is landscaped with many trees, ever here of a Quincy? There are 24 plants in my mini garden in front of the house. I hope I like gardening! I will be growing a vegetable garden in the spring, and will love doing that.”

“Wind Walker, I love your koi pond, it's great. I love the pictures too. I noticed you named one lips. I know it's not after me, but it's cute. They do have those big lips on them.”

“Canoeing
Cooking
Tinkering around the house.
Fishing
Fly fishing
Fly tying

You can always tell where I've been fly fishing - there are no leaves left on the trees.”

“FOUR teenagers, Le Subtil? I know what your hobbies are. Keeping track of what the kids are doing, who they are doing it with, where they are, when they will be home, etc. Right? With mine, I also have to deal with her court dates, her lawyers negotiations with the prosecutor, and what insurance company will cover her for auto insurance. I have a 19 yo daugher who is having a rough transition to adulthood, with some farily minor traffic mistakes, compounded by having a closed bottle of beer in her car, and a pot pipe in her purse. Oh boy! I'd rather be hiking somewhere.”

“We call her Lips because she looks like she is wearing Orange lipstick...


So how does Looking Glass like your cooking ? I mean if you put a lot of sweat in it ....I'd pass on it ;)”

“Wind Walker, Lips is a good looker.

Lookingglass doesn't know I pour sweat into my cooking; it's my secret ingredient, lol.”

“Quincy or Quince???
Quince = CrabApple”

“Idaho Bob: I know what you mean. My oldest has similar problems. And, the youngest idolizes him. What was I thinking?”

“Wind Walker, very good, you're probably right that it's called quince. I didn't really find any internet info on it, except like you say, that it's a crab apple. I also have a regular crab apple next to it. Now if only I liked jams which people use the apples for.

The branches are supposed to be covered in blooms. Mine are a coral color. On my side yard is a weeping cherry tree. There's going to be a lot of pink around my house come spring.”

“I spent the last year putting tile and hardwood floor in my house and building a fireplace (looks cool). I have also painted my at least kitchen 10 times. It's currently navy blue.

Art Music & Philosophy”

“Quince, fruiting...

'Apple' Round Golden skin
'Cooke's Jumbo' Large yellow green fruit.
'Pinapple' light golden fruit that tastes like pineapple
'Smyrna' Round lemon yellow fruit.

Quince, flowering...
( Chaenomeles )

'Coral Sea' Tall large coral pink
'Corallina' ( 'Coral Glow') Tall redish orange
'Enchantress' Tall large , shell pink
'Falconet Charlot' tall thornless. Double salmon pink
Those are just the ones that are coral or salmon color.
There are many others white, red , pink, orange and one has pink white and red on the same branch”

“Oh yeah Lipstick I forgot to mention ...Gardening is my biggest hobby!
If you can call it that.
I get paid to do it !”

“concert pianist
hot air ballooning
hang gliding
ultra-marathoning
motivational speaker
build ships in bottles
writing novels
making up totally bogus hobbies for TT ;-)

More like, I'm with Le Subtil--raising two teenagers, an adolescent, and two hyperactive 8-year-old boys.”

“Biz, I'm looking to put a hardwood floor in my livingroom, but it looks like it's hard to do. How did you learn to do it?

Wind Walker, thanks for the info. I looked up the quince tree, and finally found info. It's amazing when you spell it right, you find info, lol.”

“Paddling, Paddling, Paddling.
Snowshoeing.
Mountain Biking.
Reading.
Checking out local tunes/sweet concerts.
Playing pool and drinking beers.
Pulling tubes.
Playing Guitar.
Slacking my ass off at work.”

“fenway is a tt natural.”

“Good thread!

Kayaking
Cooking (Indian and Chinese Dim Sum are my latest passion)
Sipping wine while cookin;-)
House remodeling, it never stops. We're still minus one bathroom
Newest hobby is Herding with my Sheltie.

Oh LeSubtil ( 4- are you crazy man?) and Idaho Bob, I understand your plight. Mine are 23 and 18. There are times when I wonder about my sanity. I had one and then went back for another, "What was I thinking", indeed!”

“Dim Sum?.. *perk*

Can you do it on the trail, Pamster?”

“Of course I can do "it" on the trail, can't every one. Oh, wait, you mean Dim Sum. Sorry I couldn't resist *grin*

Fenway, pardon my ignorance, but what is "pulling tubes"?”

“Le Subtil and the rest of you parents with teenagers. I have 2 phone lines with call waiting and when I call home I still get busy signals....ever happen to you? I have a Junior boy, Freshman girl and a sixth grade boy. The sixth grader thinks he's 19 or so ;)

You TT'rs sure are a multi-faceted bunch.”

“Traveling
Vespas
Gardening (eatibles)
Dogs
Cooking
Reading
Working out
19th Century Living History
Bicycles/Biking
Snowboarding(yeeehaw, first snowstorm of season today!)”

“heh... email your phone number, Pamster.. you at work?”

“I want to bribe you to get some Indian and Dim Sum training.”

“Rocks.

I rebuild/restore walls around my 230 year old farmhouse. Fieldstone patios. Right now working on a fieldstone pathway through what will be perennial beds. The path lead to a rebuilt well with a cobblestone patio and a stone bench. Right now I have the paths largely dug out (down to 6 inches) and refilled with gravel (about 3 inches deep), next some and inch or two of sand and then the stones.

All drystone work, no mortar. No mechanical assists (except one or two lifts of especially big pieces from my neighbors front loader)”

“Biz, I will e-mail you on the hardwood flooring topic.”

“Thanks bacpac, sure is good to fit in somewhere... Although, from the little lurking I've done over here I think you'd be a risky guy to form an alliance with on this board. It does seem like a lot of outdoorsy people share those hobbies, eh? Pamster, pulling tubes is a different way of talking about using a good old fashioned bong. Refers to the tube that you clear when you pull the slide to get down to business. Also a rather covert way of talking about it --- as most people that don't do that sort of awful thing don't have a clue what you're talking about. Definitely not looking to start some righteous dope thread, sorry about the reference.”

“resslin
peddlin botes
playin gimmedat
eatin suppers
gettin fishs
hops and triks
naps
funs way
the roma therret pee
tawkin bout carret events with nother dogs and kittykittys
smellin rats
gettin rats ded
and prolly some nothers that I do not member rite now”

“lipstick hiker- I've heard the prefinished kits are pretty easy. One thing I would advise if installing unfinished hardwood is MOVE OUT while doing it. We did the living room, dining room and kitchen in our house last year. Oh my gosh the dust! We even taped plastic over the doorways and still had dust EVERYWHERE! Not to mention trying to live with floors you can't step on for a few days. Good time for a backpacking trip;-)

towndawg- I'll be glad to share my recipes with you. Drop me an email. I can suggest an Indian cookbook, "Classic Indian Cooking." I can't remember the authors name but I'll try to remember to look when I get home. As far as the Dim Sum goes it's almost all things I've collected from friends. I also have an aquantance who's family owned a Tea House and she gave me the "family " recipes. I'm one lucky gal:-) Just remember this,
Indian=time consuming but easy
Dim Sum=time consuming and labor intensive.
My kids wonder why I go through the trouble when there is a great Tea House a few miles from us.”

“the word "hobby" comes from the word "hobbyhorse" by the way.

speaking of Indian food, i got to help one of my friends (who is Indian--well, more recently, Guyanese) make some on Sunday...we had a dinner party. we made chicken curry and that flat bread and some kind of butternut squash dish that had SHRIMP in it--just for flavor. at first, i suspected she was making it up off the top of her head, but it was sooooo good! :-)”

“Thanks Pamster for the advice. I see from the internet that some flooring comes with the planks already coated. Maybe that will be the way to go if we are in already, and will cut down on dust, though I'm sure it will be lots more expensive.”

“Not really lots more expensive lips. The only real disadvantage to the prefinished boards is that any minor variations in height aren't leveled out with the sander. If you have a pretty level subfloor and buy a decent quality prefinished floor, it's not really noticeable. Definitely much less dust.”

“I sent you an email Pamster.. to the duke account.. but was still hoping to just pick up the phone and call ya.”

“Idaho Bob - I have 5 kids(2 of my own and 3 step children) - two 21 yr olds, two 18 yr olds, and a 15 yr old caboose. Take heart. Most kids make some poor choices during the adult transition. Mine have run the gammut from alcohol to drugs to criminal charges to car wrecks. The 2 oldest are starting to come out on the other side and yours will too. I operate what I call "bridge maintenance" making sure that they know that I'm there for them when they need me.
Good luck.”

“Lipstick Hiker- Pergo presto (Home Depot), it's easy and no glue. All you need is a saw to make the cuts.”

“I used a jigsaw. The hardest part was replacing the baseboards. I just got done putting the new ones on (the old ones got wrecked in process of removing them).

It took us, 2 people, a day to lay a 250 sq ft room. Baseboards, another day (need a miter saw to make the cuts).”

“I laid pergo in two rooms while I was off on pregnancy leave. The hardest part was getting up!

My Aunt and Uncle just got a prefinished (cherry) floor laid. It's junk compared to old fashioned wood that you finish. We have wood and the laminate, I really like the laminate more. It depends on what room you're puting it in though. I wouldn't want a floating floor in a lav or kitchen.”

“Saltwater fishing
Freshwater fishing
Canoeing
Car-camping
Driving
Boating”

“Towndawg, I'll email you my telly #. I didn't realize you were in that big o hurry!”

“fenway, thanks for the enlightenment. I'll have to slip it into conversation with my son sometime! I love to pull stuff like that on him. He gives me that "how the hell did you know that " look!”

“Hobbies? I've got a 4 year old boy and a 2.5 year old girl. I guess my hobby would be playing referee.”

“I forgot to mention homebrewing.”