Besides all my Ho trains and train shows I like my music, I am in the process of learning the pedal steel guitar. We also go to jams on Saturday nights and Sunday afternoons with my 6 string guitar that our Dad taught us years ago and my steel guitar. I also listen to all types of country, easy listening and the early rock with over 7,500 songs on my computer it never runs out while I am working on the railroad.
great to hear everybody's other non railroad hobbies. Here's a question though. I find that I can only do one hobby at a time for example, I might be caught up in a trains mood. And it will be all trains, model railroading, trains books and magazines. nothing but mode railroading. And then I will get into the mood where I want to work on Armor models or one of my RC tanks and then its history books, war movies, nothing but military history.
For me anyways I can only do hobby at a time, It might last 2 weeks or 2 months. But eventually I have to do something else in between. I think thats what keeps it fresh for me that when I get frustrated I can walk away and Do the armor modelling, or fire off some pellets in the air rifle, or pop in a video game ( Madden 12 on Tuesday,lol ) but thats just me,lol
Since my ex-wife kicked me out and I had to tear down my layout and have had no place to build one for over 10 years, I've computer gamed. I've played an online multiplayer game called RoseOnline since about 2005 and met my wife there. She is from england and says I have to share my trains with her! Bless her. Now if I could just find a place to start building a layout again. Child support will probably hold that off for as much as 4 more years.
Rio Grande. The Action Road - Focus 1977-1983
OK - I can hear the chuckles already! I spend most of my evenings with model railroading stuff but whenever my wife and I can get out we like to watch birds! We go to the local conservation area almost every weekend in the winter to hand feed chickadees. We go through about $50.00 of bird feed per month in our backyard. We just got back from a week in northern Ontario where we recorded a total of 23 species in five days (not a record by any means but still fun). We were thrilled to have a pair of loons just a few feet off the dock, and later that night to have them calling right in front of the cottage. We got to watch two different species of woodpeckers feeding on the same tree at the same time!
OK - enough! Stand up! Get off the floor please!! Stop LYAOROTF!!! Nobody seems to take us birders seriously
Seriously!
Dave
I'm just a dude with a bad back having a lot of fun with model trains, and finally building a layout!
Goodness181 BIG JERR: PCT hiker; (pacific crest trail) me and my son just got home from a 350 mile 3 week hike from truckee ,ca to dunsmuir,ca were trying to finish the 2,650 mile trail in 3 to 4 years ,it goes from Mexican border to canadian border . were about Half done ,got a nother 250 mile two weeker planned for after labor day ,up the John Muir trail to Yosimite .... great way to see America..Jerry Wow thats crazzy!!! Ive hiked most of the Appalacian trail up here in maine and would love to do the hole thing some day. But wow!!!! My wife and i are getting ready to hike 3 4000 footers in New Hampshire in a couple weeks then in October where hiking Mt Washington.
BIG JERR: PCT hiker; (pacific crest trail) me and my son just got home from a 350 mile 3 week hike from truckee ,ca to dunsmuir,ca were trying to finish the 2,650 mile trail in 3 to 4 years ,it goes from Mexican border to canadian border . were about Half done ,got a nother 250 mile two weeker planned for after labor day ,up the John Muir trail to Yosimite .... great way to see America..Jerry
PCT hiker; (pacific crest trail) me and my son just got home from a 350 mile 3 week hike from truckee ,ca to dunsmuir,ca
were trying to finish the 2,650 mile trail in 3 to 4 years ,it goes from Mexican border to canadian border .
were about Half done ,got a nother 250 mile two weeker planned for after labor day ,up the John Muir trail to Yosimite .... great way to see America..Jerry
Wow thats crazzy!!! Ive hiked most of the Appalacian trail up here in maine and would love to do the hole thing some day. But wow!!!! My wife and i are getting ready to hike 3 4000 footers in New Hampshire in a couple weeks then in October where hiking Mt Washington.
Down side to the Appalachian trail is Tic's. I just watched a documentary on it and that is a real concern along portion of the trail. I grew up in northern Californa and used to backpack a fair amount including Point Reyes park on the coast and Desolation Wilderness in the Sierra's up near Lace Tahoe. Beautiful up there.
riogrande5761 Goodness181: BIG JERR: PCT hiker; (pacific crest trail) me and my son just got home from a 350 mile 3 week hike from truckee ,ca to dunsmuir,ca were trying to finish the 2,650 mile trail in 3 to 4 years ,it goes from Mexican border to canadian border . were about Half done ,got a nother 250 mile two weeker planned for after labor day ,up the John Muir trail to Yosimite .... great way to see America..Jerry Wow thats crazzy!!! Ive hiked most of the Appalacian trail up here in maine and would love to do the hole thing some day. But wow!!!! My wife and i are getting ready to hike 3 4000 footers in New Hampshire in a couple weeks then in October where hiking Mt Washington. Down side to the Appalachian trail is Tic's. I just watched a documentary on it and that is a real concern along portion of the trail. I grew up in northern Californa and used to backpack a fair amount including Point Reyes park on the coast and Desolation Wilderness in the Sierra's up near Lace Tahoe. Beautiful up there.
Goodness181: BIG JERR: PCT hiker; (pacific crest trail) me and my son just got home from a 350 mile 3 week hike from truckee ,ca to dunsmuir,ca were trying to finish the 2,650 mile trail in 3 to 4 years ,it goes from Mexican border to canadian border . were about Half done ,got a nother 250 mile two weeker planned for after labor day ,up the John Muir trail to Yosimite .... great way to see America..Jerry Wow thats crazzy!!! Ive hiked most of the Appalacian trail up here in maine and would love to do the hole thing some day. But wow!!!! My wife and i are getting ready to hike 3 4000 footers in New Hampshire in a couple weeks then in October where hiking Mt Washington.
Ya ticks are an issue but i dont think their that bad up here. I'm an abide outdoors person and only have had one tick on me and that was just a couple of weeks ago.
Other hobbies eh? Well here they are, but mind you I never have enough time to enjoy them as much as I want (it's that stupid work thingy):
1. Martial arts
2. Competition rifle/ handgun
3. Hot rods and motorcycles
4. Physical fitness
5. Reading
The Dixie D Short Line "Lux Lucet In Tenebris Nihil Igitur Mors Est Ad Nos 2001"
Goodness181Ya ticks are an issue but i dont think their that bad up here. I'm an abide outdoors person and only have had one tick on me and that was just a couple of weeks ago.
For my wife, who comes from England, the bugs in the US scares the poop out of her! I am kinda used to it but don't like it either.
I have spent a good deal of time out of doors myself. In my late 40's I had a job where I was out in the woods of north western Pennsylvania all the time looking for old oil wells so nature and me were well aquainted for 4 years. I felt like a regular grizzly adams. That job disappeared so I'm back inside under fluorscent lights on computers. I do miss the hikes in the wilderness, especially the Sierra Nevada's!
Hunting, shooting, firearms collecting, and performance tuning on diesel pick ups.
Lionel collector, stuck in an N scaler's modelling space.
Airsoft,
Model railroading,
military history,
model railroading,
airplane models,
spartan football and anybody who beats michigan,
and model railroading
"Mess with the best, die like the rest" -U.S. Marine Corp
MINRail (Minessota Rail Transportaion Corp.) - "If they got rid of the weeds what would hold the rails down?"
And yes I am 17.
My Model railroad hobby always seems to take up my home days. If I can I like to get out and see the surroundings in the
4x4 Ute
Riding fast on Mountain bikes has been with me since I was a lad.
I have also been involved in co ordinating some events,
my latest hobby has been my little boy, now 8 weeks old he is a lot of work, therefore a lot of home time, therefore a lot of model building in between.
Cheers...
Chris from down under...
We're all here because we're not all there...