Used to be flying, dirt bike riding and windsurfing. Now it is trials riding and windsurfing.

 

I MC the performances of my local community concert band. I consider myself a member of the band. I go to the rehearsals to absorb the music. I research the biography of the composers, the history of the music, and try to find a compelling story to the music.

At the performances I introduce the pieces in a way that, (I hope), invites the audience to listen to the music in way that they might not have, had I not given some background or perspective to the music they are about to hear.

 

I like to repair/rewire basic guitar circuits.

I drink too much red wine.

These fellows (and others) keep me busy. I don't ride anymore, just exercise them and do basic training from the ground.

 

I like to repair/rewire basic guitar circuits.

I drink too much red wine.

These fellows (and others) keep me busy. I don't ride anymore, just exercise them and do basic training from the ground.
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I was sitting in my front room a couple Sundays ago and caught some movement in my yard. Turns out it was a horse, three of them in fact. They were just grazing away. My bride got on the Bookface , turns out they were a friends horses from about 4 miles away that had escaped. I grew up around horses so I knew how to approach a horse and managed to slip a dog lease around two of them and hold them until the neighbour could get her horse trailer hooked up and hauled them home. My bride and I quite enjoyed our morning.

 

I'm super impressed with everyone's hobbies/passions.

I picked the stupidest type of music to be interested in, so guitar it is.

(Yeah, I have kids.)

I don't consider lifting heavy things a hobby. It's just a form of self-medication.

I do some outdoorsy stuff once in a while, but not often enough to call it a hobby.

(I tried outdoor climbing earlier this month. Definitely a learning curve. I climb like a dumbass.)

When I want to escape, I game. I try to play the hard Souls-like stuff. Once it starts feeling like work, I just give up... and go back to playing guitar.

 

Add collecting vinyl to my list. I usually buy a few or more every month. Ill be upgrading my setup next year, too.

 

As a retiree, it's hard to differentiate "hobbies" from the workday. My time is spent building and repairing my own music gear and occasionally other people's. As the principal cook in the house, grocery shopping, cooking, and cleaning up after occupies a lot of my time. Unfortunately, writing on forums does too. Then there's the yardwork.

I really need to take on Swedish Death Cleaning ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_death_cleaning ) as a hobby. I have a couple of walls of reading material that probably needs to go, and way too many speaker cabs. I'd hate for my wife and kids to be saddled with the cleanup.

 

I'd hate for my wife and kids to be saddled with the cleanup.

painfully aware of this issue ... and also plan to make things easier when I snuff it ...

have been giving away boats/motors / fishing gear and other useful stuff that I seldom use these days.

 

Board games/pc gaming inside
Hanging out with the dogs outside
Beer and whiskey in either place

 

I didn't think about Whiskey as a hobby, but if collecting things is considered a hobby, I guess the qualifies...

 

Other than guitar my hobbies include: bass, mandolin, keyboards, listening to music…

and reading.

 

 

I’ve gone through a number of hobbies over the years. Some I felt I reached a point where I sort of reached a peak and couldn’t do any better and then lost interest.

Some turned into money-makers. Lol.

I used to do a lot of astronomy but not too often anymore. I did go out to my observatory the other night though and had a look at some star clusters.

I also used to do a lot of photography. I’ve had pics used in many books and publications around the world. I suppose technically, considering what I achieved with some pics, I could have been called a pro photographer but to me it really was just a hobby.

This is the major one where I really felt I hit a plateau and eventually began to lose interest.

Plus nowadays everybody is a photographer. Lol.

I’ve had conversations with people who tell me they’re a photographer. Where have you been published? I have an Instagram page! I have a website! You can buy some of my photos there.

A friend and I were paired while golfing this summer with a nice couple and the husband mentioned he was a photographer who sells his pics at local events. After listening to him brag for a while about how good he was I eventually subtly dropped the names of a few publications and a world renowned institution where some of my pics currently hang.

It was a dick move but it had to be done. lol.

Golf is another major hobby. Health now prevents me from playing as often or as well but I can still play pretty decently.

Last year I started flying RC planes. They’re fun but expensive to fix.

I’d upload a vid if I could figure out how to. Lol.

 

Last year I started flying RC planes. They’re fun but expensive to fix.

I started with the powered planes and switched to the sailplanes; less crashes and you learn to fly by the wing instead of the motor. Some think of it as boring however, it can be quite a challenge if you are trying to stay aloft in thermals for more than an hour, especially if you've high-started at only 250 feet...you don't have much time to catch the first thermal at that altitude.

 

Anything outdoors, camping, hiking, hunting, fishing. I've been involved in various shooting sports on and off most of my life. Was an avid downhill skier for many years but that chapter seems to have come to an end, as has cycling. I've enjoyed playing weekly Pickleball for the last few years. I'm also a fan of Crosswords.

 

Other than the downhill skiing, I could’ve written this about myself.

You might be a more ruggedly handsome brother from another mother. 😁

 

It can be difficult to determine what valuables you own will keep increasing in value as time passes. I've been sorting out my vinyl collection and informing family members of their potential value. I find if you put a dollar value on it, people open their eyes, unless it's of sentimental value.

 

There was a time about 5-10 years ago when I got in to collecting valuable expensive vinyl Nothing crazy. First pressings or original pressings of Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, etc. As well as audiophile versions of many classic rock albums, which could get expensive. I didn't really like the idea of having an original Dark Side of the moon and couldn't really play it, lest I affect the value.
So I sold all the expensive ones. I did keep many lesser expensive audiophile pressings although they don't shine as well on my current system as they did on the system I used to have.
I think my most expensive vinyl was a first (or original) pressing of The Wall at around $200.

 

Used to be into sailing, but these days I don't like to be out in the sun, plus taking a boat out is a whole day thing. Same for windsurfing. The good place to sail here is a 2+ hour drive.


So now, it's mostly building stuff in my shop, Landcruisers, guitars, one tube amp so far and the odd boat and bits of furniture.


I've been into cruisers for 30 years, so when the covid hit I had most of the parts to build this.

Built a metal brake so I could bend up the bed sides, dies to stamp the letters in he tailgate lots of steel fab stuff.
Kinda makes we want to build a steel guitar.

I guess you could say my hobby is doing things the hard way 🤣

 

I still do a bit of gardening with our sons, some veggies and herb. Below is a small floral arrangement from a few years ago.

 

Distilling. ( shhh) . I picked up the hobby 6 years ago and have visited some fine distilleries in Kentucky and Tennessee. I only make enough for myself and a few friends. If the trade war continues for a prolonged period of time who cares I have enough bourbon to satisfy my needs.

 

I was quite big into old and rare fine spirits for several years, you can see some of the collection at www.instagram.com/whiskyfarm
Also have been hugely into watches, mostly Swiss, since I was a little kid- grandads (and dads, albeit less-so) passion for them rubbed off on me in a big way.
Similarly really big into cars since single-digits-years old, lately more into them than ever, didn't think I could love them more than I already did...
Oh, and lest I forget boxing... Took it up a few years ago, currently unable to due to injury, but will be back... The only form of exercise I ever truly loved (along with cycling maybe)... I miss it so much!
And not sure whether this counts, but I turned one hobby- photography- into a career, which you can see on my site here (though that only encompasses maybe 1/8th of what I've shot, if that).
But by and far, guitars + music have always been the biggest thing for me- I made a page combining my loves of photography and guitars, you can see it at www.instagram.com/electricavenueguitar
For a while, it was also a side-business/hustle, but I just don't enjoy the constant buying-selling-trading anymore, gets very tiring, I don't know how some folks upkeep it for years.

 

If you looked at the bins in my garage, you’d assume that I collect golf balls with sometimes golf in between not the other way around. At one point I had something like 60 dozen cluttering up the garage.

Cycling would be my other and am considerably better at than golf (but not ball collecting)

 

Collecting balls on the bike is a painful hobby. Not saying it's happened.........but.............