We play alot of Golf. My daughter is on the high school team. Tough getting beat by her on a weekly basis. With what I have in her lessons my car could be alot closer to done.... Lot's of fun though.
Music has always been there for sure. A couple of pianos, 5 or six guitars, mandolin, ukes...don't play nearly as much as I should though. LOVE my custom BTO Taylor, and of course the Gibson acoustic I got signed by B.B. King is a special one.
You all have some interesting hobbies, collections, and talents. Although I still have my 64 Wildcat and 29 Model A coupe, I no longer do any real work on them due to back issues. I used to play bass guitar but was too loud for my wife's liking. Now I spend most of my free time with my old Winchester lever action rifles and other western style firearms. I also took up hand loading ammunition for both fun and cost savings. Some rounds for older guns cost 2 bucks each before the shortage. I've added a few to my collection since this pic but you get the idea.
I love boats and being on the water, I had 3 thru the years, but none now, hell I'd be happy with a 9.9 on a dingy
HAHA, when we got hurt from being stupid, we learned to not do that again (being stupid) , and when we got hurt again, we said " F that" No suing needed, no stupid signs with the fingers in the gears
My oldest sister had quite the collection of LP's from back from the late 60's to early 70's A couple summers ago we had her over for a visit, she was in a nursing home, she had MS, and we were going thru her album collection reminiscing, came across an album, opened the cover, and inside were pot seeds, and leaves, I guess she was drying out or something, I think she forgot about 'em! We had a good laugh
Model car/truck building, gardening, motorcycle riding, cooking but mostly music. I've been playing since I was 12, in bands since my early 20s. We have a brand new grandbaby so I'm looking forward to spending time with him in the future.
That's the surprising thing. One of the most complex watches I have is a repeater made in Paris in around 1745 by a guy called Julien LeRoy. This watch will sound off the hours and minutes if you depress the stem. It is a myriad of hand made springs and pawls, the gears were machine cut on a lathe and then hand-filed to fit. The screws were all turned by hand on stock. The lathe was human powered, my modernized version is exactly the same (it's over 120 years old too) but it now has a motor you plug into the wall driving it. That would have blown Monsieur LeRoy away to see that. The neat thing about one of these watches is you'll never be late; - the regulation on it was primitive, as was the metallurgy, so it runs about 5 minutes fast per day, no matter what you do. The case is Ormolu; an early form of gold gilding that invariably killed the metal worker. Here it is...and yes, it runs too, and that cheap Chinese made quartz (with a Swiss name) on your wrist will likely be dead in two more battery cycles.
42 years of Japanese Jujutsu. Received the highest teaching license in '12, higher honors in '16. https://hakkoryu.com/shihan/devon-m-smith-shinzan/ Devon
Horses, trail ride, daughter is on the high school golf team which is really cool, oil painting, hunting, fly fishing, and Buicks
Started up a couple new hobbies in recent months. Shooting (got a 9mm Sig M18) and collecting Morgan silver dollars. Even got my wife to take a women-only basic shooting class last week. Female instructors too, which she appreciated. One scare though.... there was an accidental discharge (not by my wife), fortunately no one injured.
