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Haha, wow, it must have been more than a few years ago now...I dont think there are *any* farms in Vancouver proper anymore (this is British Columbia too, I just realized there's a Vancouver, Washington too)...

Can't complain about EQ2 that much..keeps me busy ;)
 
Follow the Holy Gourd of Jerusalem...

Mine own hobbies are...
Photography and Portrait Drawings (not as much as it should be).
Camping/partying with friends & family, usually a couple of times a year.
Reading, fiction, non-fiction, Sci-Fi.
A warped DVD Collection of about 800 films.
(City of Lost Children, Brazil, Naked Lunch, Meet the Feebles, Ong-Bak)
Just joined the SCA (never had a chapter that met when I was Avail. before)
Cooking, Baking, BBQ. Fondue
Body Surfing when Im in SoCal. (hardly ever anymore) :'(
Learning anything useful, or trivial
Anything that involves Pleasure... Pleasure is it's own reward! ;D

Wrathwilde

ps - has anybody here seen "The Secret Policeman's Balls?"
 
Body surfing - 52nd street Newport Beach/the Wedge

Will this wind be so mighty as to lay LOW . . .

"I'm a free lance maintenance man!"
 
as to lay low the mountains of the earth?

Will this wind...be so mighty as to lay low the mountains of the earth?
No. It will not be as mighty as that, which is why we came up on the mountain in the first place. Up 'ere we'll be safe as houses.

And what will happen to the houses?

They'll all be swept away and consumed by the fire and should serve them bloody well right I should think.

Wrathwilde ;D
 
Ok, ok... I can see these two guys may get carried away with the wind, so I'll chime in on other hobbies...LOL

Plain living, which consist of many, many things. (which is why I never seem to really accomplish anything)

Gardening
Putt'n-up food
Basic skills
The list could go & go, but other things....

Coastal life. You name it. Beach, crab traps, wooden boats, sun, sand, winds, storms....
Ok you two, back to the wind...

Can you tell I've been in the Mead this evening?
 
Man... I can't believe I forgot my favorite hobby (well 2nd favorite ;))

FIREWALKING!!!

Been to more than a dozen firewalks, I have walked over red hot coals (yes... bare foot) well over 100 times. I've also juggled and eaten red hot coals.

learn more here http://www.sundoor.com/

Peggy Dylan (of Sundoor) is a friend of mine and keeps pushing for me to become a firewalk instructor. I used to go to school with her daughter Taya, her son Aaron was my roommate for a while as well. Peggy was married to Tolly Burkan who has been acknowledged as reintroducing firewalking to North America. Every Firewalk instructor you've ever seen advertised (including Anthony Robbins and Michael Sky) has been trained by one of these two extraordinary people.

http://www.firewalking.com/firewalk.html (Tolly's Site)

Wrathwilde
 
WW,

I always wondered about this -- why don't you guys get burned when you do this? I've burned my fingers right through a pair of gloves taking a tray out of my sun oven, and that was only about 250 degrees. They'd be calling me stumpy if I tried to walk over coals. :o

-David
 
Fire walking? No, not for me, not unless WW is there to tell me how to do this. :o

Hobbies -- it's a question of busy time v/s leisure time. Too much time investment in a hobby doesn't necessarily mean down time, which is what a hobby should be all about.

Myself, I like walking the dogs, tooling around with Irish folk music, and the latest is taking our 7 yr old to the local state park riding stable.

An old friend (seriously, he was in his early 70's) used to talk to me about retirement and activity. His brother hit retirement age and said that, after all that hard work, he was going to put his feet up and just relax. My friend told me that within a year he was dead. My friend's philosophy of life was to keep moving, no matter how old you might be. Keep still and you die. He took a security job at the campus where he had been a foreman for many years, just to keep going. Really great guy, used to wander the campus, make friends with the students and help them through early life difficulties.

When I reach his age, I hope to at least touch the hem of the robe of his life experiences.
 
Dan McFeeley said:
Really great guy, used to wander the campus, make friends with the students and help them through early life difficulties.

When I reach his age, I hope to at least touch the hem of the robe of his life experiences.
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Sounds like a great guy... I hope we all do as well.

As for the hows & why's we can firewalk... who knows, see current theory here.

http://www.firewalking.com/theory.html

All I know is after a firewalk I feel more "alive" than at any other time. It's better than an adrenaline rush (though probably that as well). It feels like every atom in your body comes alive... offering up their power for your use.

Of all those times I've been slightly burned walking twice. I've come to believe you need to be well hydrated. One walk where we all got burned was just outside of death valley. We were protesting Nuclear testing on Indian land, a group of about 65 of us did a bicycle trek (800 miles in a week and a half) from Sonora California to just outside of Las Vegas for a solar powered 100th monkey benefit concert. The fire walk came about 9 days in the bike trek at the end of the day. Every one of the bicyclers who walked that night got burned. The people who hadn't biked were fine.

Wrathwilde
 
Cool. My first degree was a BA in Journalism. Now working on a BS in Psychology. I'm hoping to pursue the Psych. degree much further. There's a big part of me that wants to study Psychology at UC Davis while taking some of the enology and viticulture classes. ;D
 
Other hobbies, I;

Make furniture of my own design, using 19th c. tools and technique (except saw's, chisel's and my bench/hand planes are Lie Nielsen), no powertools or metal fasteners.

Make varnish.

Craft and tool leather goods.

Play guitar, banjo and fiddle.

Collect pre-20th c. glass, tools and cutlery.

Have practiced martial arts and yoga since my pre-teens, at 43 and 330 lb, I can still do a backbend.

Cooking, fishing, reading and nawa shibari.

Hobbies I no longer pursue;

hunting, hiking, camping, long range (500 + yard) target shooting, practical pistol and shotgun sports, longbow archery, motorcycling or surfing.

Happy mazing,

Anthony
 
The problem with having a lot of hobbies is having to buy all of the damn toys/ gear. My other hobbies include:

Backpacking
Canoeing/ kayaking
Bowhunting
Blackpowder rifle hunting
Banjo playing
Hand drumming
Artifact hunting
Reading (currently reading the latest Wheel of Time novel...I became annoyed and frustrated with Jordan and series long ago, but I feel obligated to finish it.)

Peace.
 
You're right about that HB, I don't even want to think about what I've invested over the years in hobbies.

Anthony
 
My hobbies generally include something medieval:
- Brewing mead, beer, wine, cordials, vinegar, syrups, sodas
- Teaching brewing classes
- Making maille and lamellar armour
- Making wire and bead jewelry
- Camping with bunches of people who like to dress up in medieval clothes
- Striking medieval-style coins by hand

Brian K
SCA: Donal O'Brien, Caid
 
Wow, there is such a diverse range of interests here. I myself also blacksmith and yoyo for my other hobbies.
 
Mouko,

Welcome to the Forums! You'll find people from all walks of life here, with a diverse range of interests and passions -- yet we're all absolutely loopy about mead!

Yo-yo? That's just too cool for words! The last time I tried to use a yo-yo, I smacked myself hard in the face. That was enough for me!

Anyway, hope to see you around here soon!

-David
 
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