Tell us about your non-motorsport hobbies.

Hayburners. 

All the expense of a car addiction with the addition of poop.

Oh yah! Drones! I *love* being able to put a rly good camera wherever. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=djRYZgOIx90

And making beer and mead. Yum. And boom sticks and reloading but I gotta make a new bench for that last bit. 

sailing. Not sure if it is the actual sailing of the boat I enjoy or the taking an old beaten up boat and returning it to glory that I enjoy.

My 1962 GP14 when I bought her.

Stripped and "faired" for paint

How she looks today:

Next up is this build. A Chesapeake Light Craft "expedition wherry" that I built from plans and then deviated from to put on a strip planked deck.

Sick.

No major hobbies outside of the Jeeps, Volvos, and collecting parts for project cars.

I guess I could claim firearms, but I've been collecting a lot more than shooting the past few years, I own several I've never even shot.

I was an avid deer hunter in my youth, but that doesn't interest me anymore, it's cold, early, and my family owns a beef cattle operation, so it's not like I'm going to eat gamey, tough, "wild goat," when I've got a freezer full of beef.  Thankfully about 3 attempts at duck hunting was enough to convince me that crazy expensive hobby wasn't for me either.

I enjoy fishing, but rarely go.

We've got a decent sized container garden, in plastic livestock mineral tubs.  Always growing new stuff and trying new things.  We vacuum pack and freeze or pressure can produce.

I enjoy cooking, often experimenting, and doing my own take on recipes.  I love getting to cook our own produce.

We bought 115 acres of swampy woods a little over a year ago, that's been our largest recent time sink.  Prepping for building, planning, and trying not to go broke in the process.

logdog (Forum Supporter) said:

Hayburners. 

All the expense of a car addiction with the addition of poop.

Oh, horses are way more expensive!

My autocross miata can sit in the driveway until the next event, and I don't have to feed it! Or clean a stall, exercise it, groom it, water it, board it, etc.

It needs the AC repaired (it's Florida, and I drive it to events), but I don't have to do that until I want, as opposed to needing a veterinarian when the problem occurs. It's never going to get colic, it doesn't need vaccines.... I could go on.

I should emphasize that I love horses, and greatly admire and respect anyone that is seriously into them. I've left that part of my life behind, it's all cats and dogs for me now.

I love the picture; I'm sure there's an interesting story to go with it.

Appleseed said:

I collect spores, molds, and fungus.

^^^ Really? Or joke?

I've been involved with ornamental horticulture since I was a young kid. Have a backyard nursery with thousands of plants. Along with that, plant pathology is one of my side hobbies. I'm currently experimenting with Ganoderma zonatum, which is primarily a decay fungus of dead palm tissue but has also been considered an infectious disease called Ganoderma butt rot. I'm experimenting with it to try and find preventive or remedial possibilities. Test plants range from seedlings to 25 years old.

While Ganoderms zonatum is a very common fungus where palms grow naturally it doesn't get the same research attention as other palm diseases which cause a more rapid decline leading to death like the fungus Thielaviopsis paradoxa or the phytoplasma Candidatus Phytoplasma palmae which I also study cases of but do not experiment with. My current Ganoderma experiments are designed to determine if healthy palms can be infected leading to death or if only plants suffering from other diseases or stress are subject to infection. Very often palms in cultivation infected with Thielaviopsis paradoxa also get Ganoderma zonatum and if a Ganoderma basidiocarp forms then Ganoderma is blamed for the death even though the Thielaviopsis was the real cause and the Ganoderma was a secondary infection.

If any of you have palm trees and see a small bright white basidiocarp (mushroom) form on the trunk just above the ground that develops ringed "zones" that's Ganoderma zonatum. If your tree has it, then it will die, no cure, 100% mortality rate currently. Doesn't matter if it had other issues first, if it has Ganoderma zonatum it will die.

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Used to be offroading, fishing, boats and guns. 

then i got married, got a house and a kid. Boat has been in the water probably 2 times in the last 6 years. I still have all my toys. I couldnt care less about most of the guns anymore, i need to turn a lot of them into cash. 
Now i mostly try to improve the house and landscaping. And at some point i'll get my E36 on the road, maybe hit some cones occasionally.  My boy is almost 5 so getting to be time to get him out on the boat and start fishing. 

Jay_W said:

Oh yah! Drones! I *love* being able to put a rly good camera wherever. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=djRYZgOIx90

 

And making beer and mead. Yum. And boom sticks and reloading but I gotta make a new bench for that last bit. 

Nice footage. What do you fly?

Jay_W said:

Oh yah! Drones! I *love* being able to put a rly good camera wherever. 

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=djRYZgOIx90

 

And making beer and mead. Yum. And boom sticks and reloading but I gotta make a new bench for that last bit. 

I'll post some footage too. Here's some winter stuff. Sorry, kinda herky-jerky

https://youtu.be/HNCXfm2b57g

And here's the first time I lost signal. FREAKED ME RIGHT OUT!  But it did what it was supposed to do and came home. 
https://youtu.be/nbLbi9HDQiA

Getting back into dart frogs, got my first new cage built.  Thankfully I'd kept about $300 worth of tropical plants from Columbia and Peru alive in my basement the last 2 years.

Once this apocalypse is over I can finally get some new frogs.

In reply to NOT A TA :

There's some berkeleying brilliant people here.

I got a portabilist turntable a few years back.

It's entirely for me. I have no desire to perform. It's sort of zen-like mindless fun, and I'm terrible at it. It's a way to unplug.

 

Nice footage. What do you fly?

Mavic 2 pro. It's every bit as good, or prolly better, than the hype says it is.

In reply to NOT A TA :

Joke.

Egon Spengler from Ghostbusters. (the real one, not the awful one from a couple years ago).

In reply to NOT A TA :

When SWMBO and I started dating we were both in graduate school, she was working for an Agricultural Plant Pathologist, we spent a lot of one on one time in the lab creating rice blast (fungus that kills rice) inoculum to infect test plots with, and then try various remedies and application rates to cure and/or prevent the fungus.  The blast fungus was cultured in sterilized V8 tomato juice.  Which meant, we had to put erlenmeyer flasks of V8 in the autoclave, and the entire building the lab was in always smelled like tomato soup.

In reply to ShawnG :

I'd forgotten all about that line. Jogged my memory now! ahahaha

In reply to bigdaddylee82 :

At least the tomato soup smell wasn't nasty like some stuff is. Sometimes for certain fungus like the Ganoderma I want to infect healthy tissue by hyphae from infected tissue so cultivation is on decaying tissue that can smell pretty bad. Example below is a rotting coconut palm stump full of ganoderma stew. An Adonidia merrillii (Christmas palm) seedling was planted in the stew, now we wait. So far the seedling hasn't been affected at all.

I went to Vo-Ag high school, Stockbridge School of Agriculture, and UMASS. Back in the late 70's I had an old plant pathology professor who would use his yard for a lab field trip every year and had all kinds of experiments at home. I've become the old man ahaha.

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I dabble in a lot of things, and try to combine hobbies when I can.

For instance, I like kayaking and other paddle-craft. I've enjoyed fishing since I could hole a pole. I like nature watching. I like spending time with my wife, who likes taking pictures of everything.

Five activities in one? Done. That's me in the boat. As I said, my wife takes the pictures.

The photo was taken at 43°54'51.4"N 72°07'37.2"W, facing South West. The palisades visible in the right hand side of the picture are where they put I-91.

When we can't get out in the kayaks, we used to just walk around on the local trails. We're not doing much of that lately, though we did get outside in nature for about 90 minutes today at a super secret area. I took the ultralight rod with me there and caught four species of sunfish, which I'll post in the fishing thread once my wife gives me the pictures she took.

I garden- vegetables, some herbs. I take junky old wood furniture and try to make it presentable. 

We dug out the metal detector after seeing ECMJ's thread on her backyard finds, so maybe we'll be doing some of that soon, too.

I am into planting crops, I might as well use the backyard of the house. 

Biking (mountain, gravel and BMX), watches, D&D are the main ones right now.

Floating Doc (Forum Supporter) said:

Oh, horses are way more expensive!

My autocross miata can sit in the driveway until the next event, and I don't have to feed it! Or clean a stall, exercise it, groom it, water it, board it, etc.

It needs the AC repaired (it's Florida, and I drive it to events), but I don't have to do that until I want, as opposed to needing a veterinarian when the problem occurs. It's never going to get colic, it doesn't need vaccines.... I could go on.

I should emphasize that I love horses, and greatly admire and respect anyone that is seriously into them. I've left that part of my life behind, it's all cats and dogs for me now.

I love the picture; I'm sure there's an interesting story to go with it.

The pic is from a Dressage Show last October with a Costume Class.  My wife got bonus points from the judge because the horse completely ignored the costume and horn bouncing around during the test.  

One thing I have learned from talking to my coworkers is we could add airplanes and boats to the hobby list with cars and horses and still be cheaper than having teenagers in travel sports! 

Other than typical house stuff, we will be getting some hobby farm animals in the future so we are doing some general prep of our land. 

I like guitars and music. I have a ridiculous amount of vacuum tubes and a large staging area of audio projects to be started. I like electronics too; stuff like Raspberry Pi and 555 timers.  

Mechanical Clocks. I buy them broken from antique stores and junk shops and fix them. My oldest is from the 1890s. 

Vintage engines. 

12hp LeRoi. I have 4 of them. We used to go to tractor and farm shows, but haven't in the last few years. I had plans to go to several this spring but they are all canceled. 

3 hp Jumbo

Just about anything old is fun to me. I picked this guy up this weekend. 2600 pounds of awesome. It should be a fun project.