hobbies that help

[kirkman]

Here we go!

What do you call a drummer wit out a girl friend?
Homeless!

What do you call a drummers friend?
A bass player!

[doris s.]

I think my life is my hobby, lol. I love what I do....painter/arts educator.
I also love cooking, decorating, camping and hanging out with my kids and hubby. It's wonderful to be blessed!

Doris

[Classic Finn]

Does anyone do any caricature type drawing? If you do let us know please..

[droid_ca]

so I've been messing around with my electroplater lately and been getting some ideas for plating possibly a few things for my trailer as I think I'm going to do a gypsy style vardo

[Mauleskinner]

Flying airplanes...hmmm...not a lot of relevance there, I guess.

Otherwise I do woodworking, which helped move my tear along.

I'm in the publishing business by day and play in a Blues band at night. I'm a drummer--insert drummer joke here.

Well, at least as a drummer in a blues band, you only have to know three chords...

David

[nevadatear]

debbie's: all handiwork,quilting, sewing, knitting, tatting, embroidery, cooking (yes, learning DO) crochet, woodworking, reading, net surfing, very handy for teardrop building, scrapbooking

randy: machinist by trade, welding, metal work (custom) old school, no cnc), woodworking, carving, reading (fantasy), rockhounding, civil war buff

both: camping! hiking, birdwatching, traveling, eating good food, playing with grandchildren. building out teat together.

[southpennrailroad]

My hobby is finding an abandoned railroad that was never completed. It runs east and west across Pennsylvania along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. Finding actual work sites was fine but where was it suppose to be built in areas where no work was built or started. Here is a map of the route in Bedford County, Pennsylvania where no work was



This map was made in 1883 and the Turnpike used it's alignment 50 years later between 1940 until 1968 then it became a bike trail in 2001. It includes two tunnels which were started by the railroad then completed and used by the turnpike and now is a bike trail. Just east of Breezewood, Pennsylvania.

[doug hodder]

I think that's one of the great things about a tear or a TTT...so many of us have a hobby or an interest/background that can be incorporated into the build.

I picked up most all my woodworking/welding/paint knowledge on my own and by moonlighting, but was fortunate to work in the sign industry with some great artists and really learned a lot from them in terms of proportion/ detail/ color and design. Drafting skills are leftover from high school, I don't do Cad unless it's pencil Cad. Seems like a trailer was the perfect project to incorporate all those things into one package that I could build and enjoy...I think it beats a boat...done them also.

I only wish I had a paint booth...my paint work is pretty marginal, however I don't think the environmental boys here in Ca. appreciate my paint "hobby".

CD...thanks for the graphics on the Nomad....wanna do the Kamp King? Doug

[atahoekid]

So my useful hobbies/skills include drafting (I still use a pencil and paper, CAD drives me crazy) woodworking, home remodeling and most of all homebrewing. I know I can always get some assistance as I need it. The only problem is I'm such a DIY guy that I forget to ask.

The ability to draft and read drawings is priceless IMHO.

I'm planning on taking up welding sometime soon, (maybe a JC class) and learning electrical.

With those skills and a lot of extra money, I can build more T&TTTs

[Senior Ninja]

My hobbies include:
Wood working, Amateur Radio, Reading, making Paracord Bracelets, Photography, "Making Peoples' Day" ("May I speak with your supervisor to give them a good report?") I just love doing that. I also love giving away my Paracord Bracelets. Everyone in my wife's doctor's office and my doctor's office have Paracord bracelets. What fun!
Steve

[parivercat]

Hobbies past and present:
Hunting, fishing, boating, camping, racing a lawn tractor on a circle dirt track, wood carving, wood working
I designed and built my home, writing poems, songs, short stories & self-published my autobiography,
watching movies, long walks, photography and cooking.

[vreihen]

My hobby is finding an abandoned railroad that was never completed. It runs east and west across Pennsylvania along the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Having a passing interest in railroad archaeology, I just read a few web pages about the SPRR and saw it referred to as Vanderbilt's folly. A few weeks ago, I was chief of the track area for the centennial celebration of one of the later generation Vanderbilt's folly...the Long Island Motor Parkway. It was the first concrete highway in the US, and the first using bridges and tunnels to avoid at-grade crossings. It was a toll road, but he really built it as the race course for the Vanderbilt Cup auto races. Long story short, the road was another money-losing Vanderbilt folly, but there are several people who preserve the history and document the route just as you are doing with the SPRR right-of-way.

Here in my neck of the woods (Orange County NY), we have more abandoned track beds from just about every major railroad on the east coast than probably any other area in the country. It is interesting to see how the "have not" towns that were bypassed by the original Erie mainline managed to get short line spurs built, when there was no hope for profiting from them. If I ever go for an advanced degree, I'm going to write my thesis comparing the railroad busts of the 19th century with the dot com bust of the late 20th century.....

[S. Heisley]

...Poor drummers. They ain't gettin' no respect here.

[S. Heisley]

I’m a jack of trades; master of none:

Past:
- Refurbishing cosmetic fixer houses
- Lost wax casting (just a bit)
- Landscaping & landscape designs
- Sprinkler systems

Newer:
- Veggie recipe column for a local quarterly magazine
- MyAway build!

Ongoing:
- Gardening
- General fix-it stuff
- Sewing whatever
- Some decorative painting when needed
- Whatever strikes my mind to do!

[High Desert]

A hobby that contributes to camping? Like several here I collect and restore vintage Coleman and other camping items. I can now oufit a whole fleet of campers! And using them in the back yard when I can't get away to go camping soothes that urge a bit.

btw, I have to thank/blame Doug and Jeremy for this hobby/addiction.