So seems most of us are under a cold snap and
that is keeping us from riding.
So what other hobbies do you have, that keeps
you preoccupied when your unable to ride?

Myself I go to the gym, do Zumba at least 3 x's a week,
and am in the mist of redoing the living room.
I painted the ceiling in the kitchen and living room a
couple weeks ago. Ugh I hate painting ceilings..
Next will be the walls and then the carpet is coming
out and being replaced with wood..  
No I am not doing the floor, that is something I am
paying to have done.
Yet I will be watching so I can learn from them.. Their is
a method at times to my madness. kim

Same as when I can ride. I build stuff. Was in the shop till 4 am, working on a bracket to hold a propane bottle on the generator. Still at it today.
I dont HAVE to mount the bottle, but if I dont, then if I wanna move the generator, I hafta unhook the bottle, move the generator, go get the bottle, hook it back up,, blaah de blaah de blaah blaah blaah,, SO, Im building a bracket that will mount across the end where the pull start is. It has a hinge in it, so I can pull the bottle off & swing the bracket away, so I can access the motor should maintenance be required,,Im using the 1" X 2" steel that held the control for a manual treadmill someone gave me,
Ive got the rollers & a pulley that mounts to one roller all ready for the day I need to build a sheet metal roller. Ive got rollers from another one, so, with 3 rollers I can run a piece of sheet metal in & make it roll into a tube. My shop really is my man cave. The propane heater brought it from 30 to 48 degrees & never even put it on high. I listened to the radio, shortwave, Listened to Coast to Coast, out of San Antonio. I am about an hour west of Shreveport La., so, that puts us about 400 miles away. The radio is another hobby. I listen to China, Cuba, heck, all over the world. Its not fancy, its a Hallicrafters S-38, IIRC, just 5 tubes. Probably a mid 60's ish vintage. Had all the old capacitors replaced with caps that dont leak & dry out like they did back then. The tuning string has been replaced & its been tuned by a pro. Ive spent more in shipping for service than it cost, If anyone is interested in shortwave listening, hit Ebay, get an old Hallicrafters, I recommend the round tuning dial style. The linear tuning design takes a lot more effort & time to sweep thru a band. If you have room for a long antenna, hang one out. Mine is about 80 feet. If not, there are designs online to build compact & efficient antennas. Antenna design is a cool art & science,,what with trimming caps & such to tune the antenna & drive off stations that are bleeding into the one ya wanna hear. I gotta get around to doin that,,
Another hobby of mine is being HERE & typing long winded responses to simple questions,,

I used to recondition or restore old garden tractors....esp the Simplicity and Allis Chalmers ones,but I hate working in the gravel floored shop in the winter.

My hobbies now involve ham radio,our dogs,reading and raising Buff Brahma chickens. Unfortunately,when you leave home for work at 7:00 in the morning and get home 6:30 to 7:00 at night there's not much time left for hobbies

Late at night when I was in high school and living at home with parents, I used to throw the covers over me and put on my headphones and listen to my Hallicrafters shortwave radio till all hours of the night.  Good times!

I'm looking to build a pergola off the back of the house over the winter.  Got all the permits and such as well as picked up all the materials to get the ledger board up to get started, just haven't had any free time when it's above freezing and or not raining yet LOL.

Audiophile. I have a dedicated listening room in the basement which is acoustically treated (double dry-walled, corner traps, wall hangings to eliminate slap echo) and has dedicated outlets for all the components, a heavily modded Thorens turntable, and the room is close to a Golden Rule, so there are few standing waves. I have modified everything to some degree or other. Bryston BP26 pre-amp, Classe CA300 amp, Magnepan 1.6 speakers with upgraded crossover. I even built my own listening chair.
I pick away at a few instruments- Guitar, banjo, dulcimer. I have a banjo uke, which was pretty hard to find.
Photography- I have three nice digital cameras, three film cameras including a mid-format, and a complete range of lenses from extreme wide angle to 1000mm. I was a pro commercial photographer back in the day, but I didn't really like it.
And I read. A lot.

when I can't ride my baby, I have little free time(work takes up too much) and I try to relax. as I can... no vodka is not a way to relax...  
I go mountain Biking (Oh, how cool ride across the autumnal forest paths, hills and at the first snow), skiing, a little play hockey and live in expectation of spring. so that's how it...

Tempted wrote on 12/08/13 at 18:37:51:

Pretty cool....

...what do you build the fish out of?... ...



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