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Feb 21, 2009 15:08:09 GMT -6
Post by colonelbuckrobely on Feb 21, 2009 15:08:09 GMT -6
I am just curious as to what hobbies if any that you all have. Do we have any philluminists, phillatelists or numismatists among our group.
I have a strange one. I enjoy studying phrenology. My brother brought me a phrenology dome from England as a joke. I found it so amusing that I began spending time investigating the whole thing. I have to tell you I don't believe in it but find it a nice diversion.
Do any of you check out your ancestry? Do we have anything unusual along those lines.
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Feb 21, 2009 16:21:34 GMT -6
Post by mndapa1 on Feb 21, 2009 16:21:34 GMT -6
Make me look up those words. Darn you Buck. Well I have done my wifes side family tree.
Working on my side. I was told by my dad that we had ours dones already, but havent found who has it.
One of our hobbies...my wife and I together is lapidary. We are rock hounds and spend alot of time traveling and collecting.
I am also a amature radio operator and a freelance storm chaser.
My wife is an avid photgrapher and I know my way around a camera as well.
do have a working Wilson Cloud chamber that I built when I was a Physics nut. not really a hobby, but a little cocentric I guess.
Thats about it from the obvious that I am a blogger, computer geek, and family man which takes most of my time when I am not working on something important.
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Feb 22, 2009 9:29:23 GMT -6
Post by tasharose on Feb 22, 2009 9:29:23 GMT -6
My biggest hobby turned into one path of making money for my family: sewing. I love to create clothing and deconstruct clothing and make it into something new. I love creating fiber jewelry and odd little accessories.
Another hobby is baking. I love baking. Bread mostly. I love experimenting and making new breads for my family.
I also love anything having to do with needle-working: knitting, crocheting, tatting lace, embroidery, counted cross stitch.
I collect aprons. I have boxes of them because I have so many and cannot display them all.
Books are a huge hobby. I am not sure how many I have but I have three HUGE bookshelves that are outgrown. I have a hard time getting rid of books,even books I don't like all that much. I have read every book in my home more than 2 times.
Gardening I guess can be a hobby for me, but it has also turned into a fund/trade base for my family.
I love to go wild foraging. I have identified 53 wild foods in the immediate 100 foot radius of our house. I know there is much more in the forest, but I have yet to go look. It's taken 4 years to get the 53 Identified!!
I also love to make things out of nature. I have wings made, my husband and I make tools for Pagans (divination things like Elder Futhark Runes, Talking Boards, etc.) I also love to make salves and tinctures from the things I find. Our family has very little medicine in our home that isn't wildcrafted.
I really think that most of my everyday life is hobbies (mine and others) that turned into just the way our home operates.
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Feb 22, 2009 10:16:05 GMT -6
Post by colonelbuckrobely on Feb 22, 2009 10:16:05 GMT -6
Some great hobbies to consider here. Tasharose, have you started any vegies or other plants indoors yet? mndapa1, since you are in to lapidary have you collected any Thomsonite? Brad was a geology major in college so I spent many weekends and summers rock hounding with him. We once stayed at the old Thomsonite Beach Motel near Grand Marais. If you stayed there you could collect. They provided some long poles with small baskets on the end. You could go to the edge of Lake Superior on their property and do a little "fishing" for Thomsonite. We got up in the morning and intended to attempt to collect, only to see that the wind was up and the waves huge. It was too dangerous to even attempt it. www.cst.cmich.edu/users/dietr1rv/thomsonite.htmHow about the rest of you? Any other unusual hobbies here?
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Feb 22, 2009 10:32:10 GMT -6
Post by tasharose on Feb 22, 2009 10:32:10 GMT -6
Our seeds are out and ready to start. An order is being made for another greenhouse, so I am waiting for that before I start seeds, though. I just do not have the space in the house anymore to start inside at the level needed for the market and our home garden.
There are a few more seeds to order (we are seedsaversexchange.com members) but not many. I get really antsy this time of year!
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May 27, 2009 15:31:07 GMT -6
Post by hasset on May 27, 2009 15:31:07 GMT -6
Geneology is my hobby. I knew nothing about my father's family until I got a computer and started a search. Wow! What a family! I have found one murder and lots of jail birds. One of my father's aunts ran a brothel in Des Moines. No wonder my father never told a thing about his family! I learned that my father's grandfather was Jewish. I found two brothers and a sister of my father's that I hadn't known existed. They are wonderful and I think the family has pulled out of the slump with the last generation. I keep in touch with them and really love them.
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Jun 9, 2009 23:41:25 GMT -6
Post by piperdown on Jun 9, 2009 23:41:25 GMT -6
Genealogy frightens me.
What if I found out the family tree was really a wreath?
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Jun 10, 2009 6:08:14 GMT -6
Post by hasset on Jun 10, 2009 6:08:14 GMT -6
At least in a tree, there are always new branches and you hope the tree gets healthier as it grows and has improved twigs.
Everyone's family tree has people who are not on the up and up. That is what makes genealogy so interesting. There is a site on the internet called Blacksheepancestors.com and I found one of my close ancestors in prison for bigamy.
It is an interesting hobby and wouldn't be if I only found facts and dates but I have found stories and old photos, etc.
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Jun 13, 2009 18:47:04 GMT -6
Post by hasset on Jun 13, 2009 18:47:04 GMT -6
I am missing tasharose. She has so many hobbies and they all sound fascinating. She must be a Jack of All Trades. I can't imagine what fiber jewelry is. I like to make things out of junk I find at our Quarter Store. My family had so much fun making things for each other at Christmas time that it is now the way we are always going to do it. We give our Christmas shopping money to the Salvation Army. I have my designs for next year's gifts all planned out and I can hardly wait to start making things. Tasharose, what kind of medicine (wild crafted) do you use for arthritis? Does it work? Someone gave me some tea tree oil salve and my husband used it on his arm that was so scraped up after falling off the deck. He swears by it.
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