wicca32 Posted June 29, 2014 Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 title says it all. what else do you do with your free time? me i crochet most of the time. i come from a talented family so i have several "hobbies" i like to take pics of my tanks and fish as well as the sky and landscapes. i am also a 2nd generation basket weaver. i like to draw. and i can play at least a half dozen musical instruments. i dont get to play music much any more cause the dog thinks is fun to sing along and that just makes me laugh lol. when i was bored tonight i decided since i had copper wire sitting around i would do this. its a cherokee double wall basket and is about half the size of a dime Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted June 29, 2014 Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 Wow! How long did that take to make? Y'all know about my selective breeding hobby. I'm also a stay at home dad, and VP/cofounder of a live theatre. I'm also an actor. I used to dabble on the piano by writing my own songs, but since I got married ten years ago, we don't have a piano here- so haven't had a chance to do that. Those three hobbies (breeding, dad, theatre) take up so much time, I don't have time for anything else! LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wicca32 Posted June 29, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 29, 2014 that took about an hour or so maybe hour and a half. im pretty proud of that little thing. ive never made one that small and never used wire before either. pretty sure it will turn into a christmas present for my mother lol. first thing she said when she saw it was " Can i have it?" lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shrimpo Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Well done wicca32. I used to keep birds but I am taking break until I get more space and time for them, I had Gouldians, Canary, Parrotlets, Finches and what not, back then I had MCS ( multi cages syndrome) similar to MTS that we have in the aquatic hobby. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 That copper basket is nice. Just knowing that it copper wire seems so hard to weave . My hobbies are fish and few elderly snakes but no more after this bunch . Shrimpo, Very nice zebras . I had a pair of toucans years ago in a large flight aviary outside . We had several fledglings from them that I gave away but the initial pair we had for about 15 years bit more for the male . I than had 4 female Java Rice sparrows for years . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Soothing , I have a friend who was in Miami Vice decades ago which was a series about 2 detectives in Miami . He played a drug dealer on 2 episodes and his son was in the Sopranos as a tree branch cutter who one of the mob guys knocks down . His son is pursuing acting on the side but has his regular job . My friend did it decades ago on a whim . He went for an audition they had by the beach and he got the role because he had the look they wanted . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 That's awesome Louie. Someday I'll step out of community theatre and do something pro- besides indie films. But I've been saying that for 40 years now. heh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Everyone does something different haha. Aside from breeding fish and shrimp, which I've been in the aquatic culture since I was 7, at least with my own tanks, maybe 4 with my grandpas tanks trying to take those over. I don't usually have time for much else, my family takes my afternoons, I work evenings, and deal with my tanks in the mornings. I do on occasion play video games, currently waiting for destiny to come out, for those who don't know, bungie the makers of halo, this is there first game in ten years. I'm super excited for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 I was super excited about Plants vs Zombies 2, since I LOVE the first one. Then it came out...what a let down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Haha that's true there are a lot of let downs with new games. But it's been ten years in the planning and making and it's supposed to be the biggest rpg convert to mmorpg for a console system. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 About 2 years ago ,I used to play "Penguin wars" . Penguins throw snowballs at each other and you can get snowballs that explode , etc . It was a free game but if you registered you would play against another player and not the computer , like Emperor Penguins vs Rock hopper penguins (my team) one day they changed it to some type fortress defense and ruined it . The whole game was ruined . Have either one of you played it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 Nah. As far as mobile games go I've done Farmville. Clash of clans. Mobsters. Mafia. And several fish tank ones. But console games are my hold. Been playing since I was 6 about the same as my fish tanks that's 17 years now for both haha Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryboy12484 Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 I remember when Nintendo came out lol... and had an Atari before that. ive got 27 years sitting infront of a console lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metageologist Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 My hobbies are rock collecting, photography (nature only) and hiking. Talking about old consoles I had one that I don't remember the name of but it was VHS based and had a gun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted June 30, 2014 Report Share Posted June 30, 2014 I had on e of the original Sinclair's My dad bought it for the family and we thought we were hot stuff. heh 8K of memory that could be boosted up to 32K with an add on pack. Storage was an audio cassette tape. Games were pretty much limited to X's and O's. Then my dad got smart and bought an Atari. It had Tennis! But wait- there's more. It also had hockey, ping pong, squash, and doubles. Yeah, it was tennis with longer or shorter paddles. Man, have we come far! I STILL want a virtual game though. Put on my goggles or helmet and feel like part of the world! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
countryboy12484 Posted July 1, 2014 Report Share Posted July 1, 2014 I always liked froger when I was a kid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pika Posted July 1, 2014 Report Share Posted July 1, 2014 My brother still has our original Nintendo console from when we were kids, and I played Mario Bros. and Mario3 with him not very long ago. Amazing that thing has held up so long... As has my muscle memory for the spacing on all the jumps, etc. He long ago graduated to fancy games and other consoles, and I... well, sometimes I button mash on the newer ones. Then I run into the wall a bunch of times, get shot in the back, and give up. One of my hobbies is soap making. I do the cold-process technique, meaning I make it from scratch at moderate temperatures, with lye and various fats/oils, and then let it go through a cure period. I've been on a several month hiatus/vacation from making it, but am gearing up to get back to it. I'll try to grab some pics and add them here at some point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subtletanks91 Posted July 1, 2014 Report Share Posted July 1, 2014 Man I wish we had an Atari when I was a kid. I started with the super nes then the Nintendo 64 and genesis. Crazy taxi is one of my all time fave games. I used to be into building model cars, used to play guitar. Build oh scale model trains and the whole layout for them on 10x8' plywood mountains cities the whole chabang. But aquatic culture and video games have been the only thing to keep my add in check and kept my concentration. Everything else wen kaput after a year or so. Guitar I played for about 3 years but give me a major scale to play on and a solo to try and shred, and I would end up breaking the freaking guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted July 1, 2014 Report Share Posted July 1, 2014 My dad did electric trollies. He cam from Penn, so same idea. Pika, I bet you do some awesome work with soaps! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00camaro16 Posted July 1, 2014 Report Share Posted July 1, 2014 My wife says I have too many hobbies... Fishing (fly and spin, fly tying, rod making) Cars (engine performance, audio, and paint) Wake boarding Distilling Snow boarding Mountain biking Rock climb (semi out of it for the last few years though) History buff Wood working Aquarium (really like planted tanks, hopefully will like selective breeding, and interesting fish. Only freshwater for now) And applying for mba schools if you count that. I have problems with having nothing to do an sitting still so I keep myself very busy. With no kids, I have the time for multiple hobbies and most of the time I rotate through stages to be honest. Chris ctaylor3737 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Louie Posted July 1, 2014 Report Share Posted July 1, 2014 Camaro, Fly fishing is very popular around here , People fly fish for peacock bass and the tarpon bunch in Key west prefer fly fishing . I have never tried it but I like the simplistic look of the rod/reel . I know as a rule the rods and reels are way more expensive than the non fly fishing gear . Soothing, I recall those ping pong or tennis games which first came out . You could play one set forever with no one scoring , lol . It just went back and forth but for those days it was high tech Soothing Shrimp 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pika Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 Here are some of my soap pics... ShortGirl, High5's, Duff0712 and 1 other 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 Wow! You should have a site! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pika Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 I sell (minimally) on etsy. My site has been "on vacation" for a while, but I'm in the process of getting it up and running again. People can contact me for info if interested, but I only do small batches, and the stock varies. Mostly I do it to make money to continue making soap. My shrimp may be pampered freeloaders, but my soap has to "work" for its keep. Gabor129 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soothing Shrimp Posted July 2, 2014 Report Share Posted July 2, 2014 LOL I know the whole "work" thang! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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