I need a hobby!

[jag312]

Scuba diving is fun and not overly expensive to start. It keeps you in great shape, and it only gets expensive if you started traveling to exotic places for diving vacations.

Growing fruit trees is a long term hobby. Nothing tastes better than eating fresh fruit just picked from the tree. Fruit that you buy in a store has lost most of its flavor. I'd just like to know who cut down my apple tree last year.

One of my uncles had a hobby of making wine. He would buy the wine grapes instead of growing his own, but his wine was pretty good.

 

[BarbC]

My dad builds radio-controlled boats to cruise on the pond behind his house. There's a radio-controlled airfield at the Water Gap that looks like fun too, but more expensive.

I do counted cross stitch in the winter and fish in the summer.

 

[Muddyboot]

Read a book, I hear they are free at your local library.

 

[Frizzman]

I am retired and have more time than money. The things I do besides house chores(YUCK) are: Cycling, kayaking, library, reloading, but lack of components have put a halt to most of that, fishing(I live next to the Atlantic)...I have also been shooting muzzleloaders and going to rendezvous for many years. That can be as cheap or expensive as you want it to be. Most of what you will need you can make yourself. I cast my own rifle balls and cut my own patches. I have made my own knife and sheath and many other things. It is a good way to learn lots of skills and rendezvous are fun and are held all the time all over the USA. You can go on the National Muzzloading Rifle Association site to learn more. Have fun, whatever you do.

 

[USAF385]

Read a book, I hear they are free at your local library.

What's a "library"?

 

[Stonecove]

I have been doing powder horns and learing scrimshaw. This is my first horn. It doesn't take much money but it will consume some time if you choose to devote it. It is easy to find help on line and the equipment needed is limited.
Stonecove

 

[reddogge]

Bone up on American History. Pick a period, read books from the library, visit historical sites, rent DVD's on those periods. Very rewarding. I've been doing this since I was a first out of college in 1965 and go through different periods, wars, etc. It never gets old.

 

[red14]

Coaching

If you know anything about sports, or want to, help with youth sports. There are many youngsters out there, some with no dads, who need guidence. It is rewarding and keeps the kids out of trouble. Helps you stay young too.

You never stand so tall as when you kneel to help a boy or girl. I get great satisfaction, and I love my players. Some of them even like me. I believe, in a small way, I help my community. I know I get great satisfaction when I read an article about some boy or girl (that I coached) getting an athletic scholarship or playing a great game in the newspaper.

Our youth of today need mentors more than ever. I love what I do!

 

[Lead Chucker]

Last thing I got done doing was pulling apart this old Eastfield Model 916 that I inherited, cleaning and lubing it, replacing some missing parts, and putting it all back together. That was fun while it lasted, and now the gun is in working order.

Since you enjoyed that... a couple possiblities come to mind:
1) buying older firearms and "restoring" them.
2) building blackpowder firearms - either from kit or scratch.


One of my favorite hobbies is making things on a wood lathe - pens, bowls, vases, etc.

 

[Wyatt Burp]

I have been doing powder horns and learing scrimshaw. This is my first horn. It doesn't take much money but it will consume some time if you choose to devote it. It is easy to find help on line and the equipment needed is limited.
Stonecove

Stonecove. Gun engraver Frank Leaman made me a scrimshaw tool using a phonograph needle attached to a thin handle. It worked great and I'd use people's cigarette ash to apply to see how things were coming. Still have it.

 

[Stonecove]

Stonecove. Gun engraver Frank Leaman made me a scrimshaw tool using a phonograph needle attached to a thin handle. It worked great and I'd use people's cigarette ash to apply to see how things were coming. Still have it.

Hey Wyatt, The phonograph needle is a great idea. I have an exacto file holder that I could use to hold the needle. I used an exacto knife and it works good with the grain, but across the grain it slips. Are you still making horns? Let's see 'em.
Stonecove

 

[NCTexan]

After a career with a large corporation, I was used to long term projects that were sometimes hard to evaluate as a success or failure.

I started cooking as a fun and satisfying hobby. It's something that can be done at any level, doesn't have to be expensive, and you know immediately if you achieved your desired results.

Like shooting, you can also set yourself higher goals and challenges.

BTW, this goes quite well with some of my other hobbies of eating, drinking wine, and running. (the running allows me do more of the first two!)