Share your hobbies and interests other than guitar

My baby and me are big on swimming and cycling.

Trout fishing. Used to breed Rottweilers. Great dogs. Lawn darts for bad dogs. JK.

Hmmm ... Lots!

My Father set an example I have found myself following. He created things. Many times because he could not afford to buy it. It could involve the refurbishing of some derelict item, modifying an existing thing of flat out engineering and building from scratch.

My instinct is in most instances exactly that as well. I don't think of things I need or want and promptly go out and purchase it. In fact the items I find for sale are usually not exactly what I want or set up exactly how I want mine to be. The solution; build what I want the way I want it.

I am very utilitarian in nature, so trying to make things of perfect or great aesthetic beauty is seldom my goal. If that were my goal I could not do as much as I do. To me it is about *the vision* ... *the doing* and *the end functionality*.

Much of the stuff in our house are things I created. I don't like stuff sitting on the floor, so much of it is suspended on the walls.

I had the six and a half year long remodel of our house (from Jan 2010 thru spring of 2016) creating the music room, the covered patio and an almost 300 sq. ft. clean storage room in some vacant attic space. Oh, and the conversion from asphalt shingles to concrete tile roof.

Currently I am working through our kitchen refurbish project.  Primarily relating to new finish and new doors and drawer fronts throughout.

Adding to the woodworking theme, I build boxes. It's like a sickness. If I have something I will probably eventually build a wooden box for it.

Most are aware of my restoring classic cars for the past 25 years. At this point we have just the 67 Camaro and the 54 F100 truck, but at 64 years of age, that's enough.

I do leather work making mostly things I want or need for my own use. There are a few of my creations floating around out there though. You'll never confuse me with Hushnel in this field of work. Hushnel is a true artist. With my focus being utilitarian, my work has aptly been described as "Spartan" and I think that is a perfectly proper reference.

Back in the 80s I wanted to learn about photography ... emphasis on "learn". I bought a Nikon FM. This quite nice, but fully manual camera and about 4 fairly high end lenses provided me with what I needed to learn and the requirement to learn. Every aspect of every shot was on me. I bit later I purchased a motorcycle. It was 1982 Suzuki GS850L. Even then I had to build my own seat to allow me better traveling convenience. I toured the Country on that bike with my Nikon FM in hand. It was a glorious three years. By 1986 I got married and our first child was on the way so my Suzuki friend and I parted ways.

Most here are probably also aware of my 20 quest to learn to shoot (primarily) handguns at a high skill level. The past two years have shot that in the butt a bit (pun intended).

Anyway, those would be some of my hobbys and interests ... without getting into some really mundane stuff.

•Woodworking

•Surfing: used to get out in the water several times/week from age 12 on into my late 60s, less frequently now

•Have also worked on cars, ridden mountain bikes and motorcycles and done artwork and photography in the past but none of that anymore

Camping, fishing, making knifes and leather sheaths for the knifes, motorcycling (2013 HD limited), 73 Mach 1, some woodworking, oil painting.

MUSIC has always been MY thing. i can't remember, but my parents told me i was picking out tunes on my kiddie piano when i was a toddler. i kinda grew up doing music one way or another. playing horns, teaching, that's what i do. but i have some other things along the way...

Winemaking.

That hobby always seems to be a conversation piece.

I try to hike 3-4 times a week. Keeps me in shape, and my Aussie requires it or else he's unbearable to be around. We have outstanding trails up here in the Rocky Mountains.   And I ski in the winter.

I read quite a bit, try to do an hour/day.

I started out as a volunteer docent at our little local history museum. Now I'm the VP of the board of directors, and I still work the desk one day a week. I meet folks from all over the country, which is interesting.

And I cook. I try to be creative on the grill or in the kitchen. On my best day I'm half the cook that Mrs. R is. We eat good.

I used to be a car guy, always had a sports car of some kind. No longer, though, even though I have an empty third bay in the garage. I'm content to putt around town in my Ridgeline.

And I golf a couple times a week. Playing today, in fact. We have a really nice public course up here. Took 2nd in this season's Wednesday men's league.

I am a dyed-in-the-wool music nerd. It seems like everything I like to do involves it. I geek out on music theory and harmony, recording technology and all the many facets involved with that, music production, engineering, acoustics, music arranging and composing (although I haven't done much of this lately), guitar playing, sound design, vocal arranging and singing, bass playing, keyboard playing, music appreciation and listening, and about any other thing associated with it. I have many guitars but don't consider myself a collector. I have them for their different sounds. If I were any kind of collector it would probably be microphones. I have many and always want more. I geek out watching YouTube videos about the previously stated musical topics.

I tinker in my shed when I have the need for something or something needs repairing but that's more from a need standpoint than a want.

I used to build and repair computers as a kind of hobby years ago but since the operating systems and hardware have gotten much more stable and powerful I don't have to do that anymore. I started off doing that because I couldn't afford to buy a powerful computer so I would build them. That resulted in my friends bringing me theirs when something was wrong with them. I enjoyed that but don't really miss it. It could be very frustrating.

I have recently started exercising regularly. Still don't like it but I'm trying to get to where I do. I have gotten too overweight and have to do something about it. I haven't yet gotten to the point where it doesn't hurt to do it but it's getting less painful the more I do it. I'm hoping I can get past the sore muscles stage soon before I burn out on it. I would really like to enjoy it because it's very good for me. Especially at my age. Right now I'm powering through it.

Too many, but the main ones are photography, model railroading and shooting.

Hiking, motorcycling, metal detecting, reading, coins, carving, knives, but mostly music.

Photography, guns/shooting, fishing, collecting and fixing up old Coleman lanterns and stoves, videogames sometimes, building electronics.

At first I read this as you having given up street bikes and also having given up too many women. I assumed it got tiring.

I gave up teenage girls long ago,(my youngest daughter is 31) (actually I do have several teenage grand daughters Thankfully they do not live with me.) women, not so much. Although I probably should.

Wow it just dawned on me my youngest is 31, damn I'm old. Time to start spending money on my hobbies.

Where is that little old house in Texas?