So what else keeps you busy?

[Don S]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

Winter or wet weather, I like woodworking. Let summer come around and I like to fly sport kites. Not just any kite, sport kites .............. SOME DAY, I may be good enough to fly like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUiLl0g8xWc

If one gets in to quad line kites, it get's even stranger.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRP75DLwGww&feature=related

This is amazing. It's kites flying in the air.

 

[mphy98]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

a 14 year old boy and an 8 year old girl, and she wants to go with to canada next june!!!

 

[WAVENBYE2]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

WOW Don that was wild, I have never seen anything like that before!! Thanks!! I showed my wife, Way differant than when I was growing up thats for sure!!

 

[4JawChuck]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

The boat thing is relatively new for me, I am in my second year of ownership but spent plenty of time in boats fishing with my buddies up at Pointe Du Bois generating station where I worked for a hydro electric company...good times, fishing at lunch time...it doesn't get much better than that.

I used to be into racing/hotrodding years ago but I sold all my toys and even bought a house without a garage, all thats left is my restored/modified 1994 Taurus SHO...buts I sold it to a nice guy who is paying me in payments.

My secondary hobby is mountain biking, I currently have four bikes...hardtail to x-country to a brand 2009 Trek Session 88DH downhill bike. That bike cost more than my boat LOL!

Side hobbies include model sailboats and scale military models that I give away to folks I know who work on protecting us from the bad guys, I figure its the least I can do to give the veterans a miniature copy of their war wagon in a glass case...my last model is a M1 tank with a A10 Warthog in construction phase. My problem is I spend to much time trying to make it period specific and marking correct for each recipient. The next one after the A10 is an F18 for a buddy in Cold Lake Alberta who is a maintenance manager for the aircraft repair depot there....shhhh don't tell him its supposed to be a surprise! Should look nice on his desk I figure.

Of course my main hobby is my kids, I have three...a 12 year old boy and 9 year old twins, boy and girl. They keep me young.

 

[Bigprairie1]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

I'm never short on unfinished projects it seems. That said, I've got a couple of older chevy trucks, a '66 C10 and a '72 Cheyenne Super that I tinker with....love those old chevys.
Apart from that I'm always working on renovation projects. Next is continuing on putting in a bedroom, bathroom and rec room in the basement...aside from refinishing a cedar deck, extending another deck.
As well, my wife is an avid gardener and I am given the job of doing all the infrastructure on these from the borders to the soil, manure etc.
Given all this stuff...I'm glad the ol' Bayliner/Force has been turn key and trouble free (in spite of the endless Force controversy ).
The next big major project is to build a 17x26 garage for the truck hobby and get on with finishing at least the '66 off.
All Good
BP
...heres a quick pic of the '72

 

[mike64]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

SPARE TIME?????? What's that???

I agree with HW. Between 2 kids, a job, and home chores, spare time is a strange concept I dimly remember from when I was single

 

[freelancer]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

Just wondering what else besides boating keeps you busy? So what else do you do?

Surfing the iboats forums:redface:....Oh and work, wife and kids, fishing and yardwork

 

[Andy in NY]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

we heat with wood, so spring and fall are wood cuttin seasons. in the spring the chainsaw gets put away when the cover comes off the boat, and gets put back on when the chainsaw comes out in the fall. spend a good amount of time cutting, splitting, stacking, etc between mine, my sister in laws and my buddies firewood. winter time is for hanging on the couch in shorts and tshirt with it 75 degrees in the house... that is of course inbetween reloading the furnace every few hours.

 

[JeepinGunGuy]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

I think I can play this game. I shoot competivly in USPSA and IDPA. I have a 1991 Jeep Cherokee with 35's for offroading. I collect guns, knives and reloading equipment. Plus with a wife 5 kids and 2 grand kids I?m a pretty busy guy most of the time.

 

[joza]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

Our 1864 farm house keeps me pretty busy all year. During the warm season, the work goes on outside, during the cold season the work moves inside. The wood shop in the basement stays pretty busy during the winter. The outside is pretty much done as far as major things... just cutting the grass and all the other things that go on out there.

The inside has been undergoing restoration for quite a while. I think we've got the bathroom left to gut and renovate. The POs really jacked up this house in way too many ways to mention. That's the biggest job, undoing what they did. But I enjoy working on it.

 

[tallcanadian]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

Let me see. Shovel snow..Shovel more snow. Then wait for the snow to stop so I can shovel it again. Sheesh, you Florida guys got it made. LOL. After all the snow clearing, there's snowmobiling, ice fishing, dreaming of my boat, watching it disappearing in the snow bank in the yard (big alligator tears sliding down my cheek). I've got about 30 old muscle car plastic models that I put in a box around 12 years ago, that I may drag out this winter. That may keep me from getting the blues.

 

[RoyR]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

Hobbies....flying!!!!!!

 

[RoyR]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

To the OP, this is my wife's dads layout, insane with sounds lighting etc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9UyEKFLN0Y

 

[BLU LUNCH]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

To the OP, this is my wife's dads layout, insane with sounds lighting etc:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9UyEKFLN0Y

Very impressive...........

 

[tallcanadian]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

Very impressive...........

You like civil war stuff? Here's my drinking hat. LOL.

 

[onwaves]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

May - Oct...Boating at the Shore or whitewater kayaking in the mountains. Fall...Camping & flyfishing. Winter...Snowboarding. Spring...camping and flyfishing. And like a broken record it keeps going around and around. In one month I retire so I'll need some more hobbies to fill in the time.

 

[TonyJ124]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

I guess I'm a minority, the boat gets used when the other hobbies don't get in the way. We try to travel as much as possible, I mountain bike a bit, and I have a tinkering habit- mostly with Volkswagens, but lately I've spent a lot of time with my '88 Bronco.

The truck was bought ONLY as a boat hauler to replace a '99 pathfinder that wasn't sufficient... and it quickly turned into a focus. It is getting closer to paint, I buttoned up some rust issues this past weekend- here is where it stands now:

(if there is anyone here in the Charlotte area with a body shop- send me a PM. )

The real garage queen ('98 GTI);

 

[Andy in NY]

Re: So what else keeps you busy?

I think I can play this game. I shoot competivly in USPSA and IDPA. I have a 1991 Jeep Cherokee with 35's for offroading. I collect guns, knives and reloading equipment. Plus with a wife 5 kids and 2 grand kids I?m a pretty busy guy most of the time.

so would you mind shedding a little insight as to how you came up with your user name?

Our 1864 farm house keeps me pretty busy all year. During the warm season, the work goes on outside, during the cold season the work moves inside. The wood shop in the basement stays pretty busy during the winter. The outside is pretty much done as far as major things... just cutting the grass and all the other things that go on out there.

The inside has been undergoing restoration for quite a while. I think we've got the bathroom left to gut and renovate. The POs really jacked up this house in way too many ways to mention. That's the biggest job, undoing what they did. But I enjoy working on it.

we have an 1892 built house as well, in a small village surrounded by farms. we have remodeled about 80% of it so far... it is certainly an interesting experience.

Let me see. Shovel snow..Shovel more snow. Then wait for the snow to stop so I can shovel it again. Sheesh, you Florida guys got it made. LOL. After all the snow clearing, there's snowmobiling, ice fishing, dreaming of my boat, watching it disappearing in the snow bank in the yard (big alligator tears sliding down my cheek). I've got about 30 old muscle car plastic models that I put in a box around 12 years ago, that I may drag out this winter. That may keep me from getting the blues.

oh come on... you dont get that much snow. its much too cold for all that snow! i know where i live (right on the canadian border, SW of montreal) it gets so damn cold that we really dont get much snow. our average yearly snowfall is LESS than it is in springfield, MA where i grew up. the real biatch is when it gets to -20 in january and STAYS THERE for the month.