Dueeast
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I'm 53 and last year I started fly fishing, (although I've been fishing all my life) and 2 months ago I took up golf. Both I said I would never do. And @ 4 years ago I started drinking bourbon. I wonder whats next?
Hobbies you pick up as you age
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OFT II
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Let's see, fishing, golf and drinking. Yep, you're on a down hill run on a greased rail.
To answer your question - eating!
I never used to give two hoots about food. Now, for some reason, I kind of like it. 
I've said the same thing about golf. It may get me one day, but I think not.
I have always had way too many hobbies or interests. Never had the time or money to pursue them all to the extent I would like, so I guess I had over-supplied myself early on. So, I can't see adding golf - at this point. However, I may be inclined toward tennis (my son seems to enjoy it). I did make the full circle with biking. Always enjoyed biking as a young fellow, dropped it through my thirties and early forties, then came back to it. Looking to do the same with motorcycling, once both kids are firmly in college. I really enjoyed travelling on a motorcycle when I was in my twenties. I hope to get back to that someday soon.
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JJEH
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That sounds so familiar...
Too many interests, not enough money.
I quit drinking and smoking a looong time ago. But added some other hobbies/habits.
Tennis and Basketball are nice sports I like to play. Soccer sticks to me I don't know why... probably because of my origin. But now I wanna learn how to dive...
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
My tastes are the same since I was a boy. What has changed is my ability to do them. Years back I flew some. But not enough. I still own the plane (In california) but cant pass my physical to fly it! I always rode motorcycles forever but dont have one now. I got married and the wife and I are just too big to comfortly ride a harley. We did get into ATVs. I hadnt rode them untill we retired here. Now I wish I had rode them when they came out with them. We joined a club. Almost all are retired and in our age bracket. I led a 40 mile ride two days ago and we did hit a little rain yet all loved it.
When we moved here in 2007 the first thing I did was buy the quad. At the time it was the very first quad built to legaly haul two people. Now they have come a long way since then. Power assisted steering etc. I would like to buy a new side by side commander but they are over $18,000 for the way I would get mine.
I love traveling and had thought I would do a lot of it. Got remarried after I retired and my wife isnt into my style of saveing on motels by sleeping in the bed of the truck like I used to! So now gas is out of sight, motels are exspendsive and with two cats at home that ruined my traveling dream!
When we moved here in 2007 the first thing I did was buy the quad. At the time it was the very first quad built to legaly haul two people. Now they have come a long way since then. Power assisted steering etc. I would like to buy a new side by side commander but they are over $18,000 for the way I would get mine.
I love traveling and had thought I would do a lot of it. Got remarried after I retired and my wife isnt into my style of saveing on motels by sleeping in the bed of the truck like I used to! So now gas is out of sight, motels are exspendsive and with two cats at home that ruined my traveling dream!
Scuba is a wonderful thing, but be warned - you need at least five things:
1. Money
2. Reasonable health & fitness
3. A cool head
4. A buddy - not just a "buddy" in the diving sense of the word.
5. Money
1. Money
2. Reasonable health & fitness
3. A cool head
4. A buddy - not just a "buddy" in the diving sense of the word.
5. Money
JJEH
Member
Lol... yeah that's right about scuba
I used to ride motorcycle as well, had a 1989 Kawasaki ZXR 750 H1.
A rice burner I know... but after some modifications ideal for German roads...
I used to ride motorcycle as well, had a 1989 Kawasaki ZXR 750 H1.
A rice burner I know... but after some modifications ideal for German roads...
BearBio
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Since 45, I've started fly fishing, leatherwork, CAS shooting, home improvement (never could afford a home in California), cooking (when I started grad school @ 46, we had an elk and a big muley==couldn't afford beef, so I learned to cook), and gardening (of course, you gotta grow your own herbs, then peppers, tomatoes, cukes, etc). Course, I went back to school and changed careers from real estate to biology.
Gunslinger808
Member
Quads and side by sides.
Always had a Jeep or some other off road vehicle, but I really enjoy the open air trail blazing on a quad.
Always had a Jeep or some other off road vehicle, but I really enjoy the open air trail blazing on a quad.
ACP230
Member
After the kids left home I started making wine again.
Just about time to make dandelion, from my grandpa's recipe, again.
Have blueberry, strawberry, sugarplum/blueberry, choke cherry, and rhubarb, apple aging.
Still shooting, hunting, fishing, and reading like I have since I was a kid.
Just about time to make dandelion, from my grandpa's recipe, again.
Have blueberry, strawberry, sugarplum/blueberry, choke cherry, and rhubarb, apple aging.
Still shooting, hunting, fishing, and reading like I have since I was a kid.
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
Some of this reminds me of a guy I knew at work almost 40 years ago. George looked like I do now. He was a huge rough looking gray haired kinda crude guy. He was telling storys about a lot of girlfriends he use to have. It was hard to imagine him with cute young chicks. I said george, where ya spose those cute wild women ya had are now? All women I know your age are old white haired and religious. George said, Hell yeah! When they get old, fat and ugly, then they git religion!
Looking for the TV remote and my truck keys...
rocketdog
Member
cigars and whisky and taking care of broke down women 
Napping...
Wyatt Burp
Member
I'm 55 and my hobby seems to be always looking for my glasses. Somehow the four pairs I have stashed around the house always end up in the same place.
My favorite hobby right now is irritating the wife and grandkids......
feralmerril
Absent Comrade
There is a new sport/hobby out now that interests me. It`s a combination of flying RC airplanes that have video cameras on. Kathy (Katz here) had a thread on it here a few weeks ago. It was on U tube. Last night here on the news they had a segment on it. It seems some tree hugger types have complained that it enroachs on their spritcial solitude and is trying to get the national parks, BLM and forrestry to ban flying it over their land.
Two guys are envolved. one flys while one does the camera work. You can have all the equipment you need for about $1,000s. You make videos of just like you were in the model airplane flying it down mountain cliffs, buzzing mountain goats, flying alongside eagles etc.
I found kathys lead, here it is. The same two guys that filmed and flew this were interviewed last night on the news. One thing is for certain. No matter what you find new thats fun to do, their is always going to be A-- h---- that try to get it stopped!
Thanks Kathy.
toddsher2112 - YouTube
Two guys are envolved. one flys while one does the camera work. You can have all the equipment you need for about $1,000s. You make videos of just like you were in the model airplane flying it down mountain cliffs, buzzing mountain goats, flying alongside eagles etc.
I found kathys lead, here it is. The same two guys that filmed and flew this were interviewed last night on the news. One thing is for certain. No matter what you find new thats fun to do, their is always going to be A-- h---- that try to get it stopped!
Thanks Kathy.
toddsher2112 - YouTube
CW Spook
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I took up flying at 62, but gave it up last year when my plane was destroyed in a windstorm. Bought a sidecar motorcycle to replace it and have been having a ball with that. I'm also trying my hand a leatherwork, reloading for my old 30/40 Krags and I'm putting up a new antenna for ham radio after a several year layoff. Figure those oughta' be enough to hold me for a while.
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