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Western WA

I know this really has little to do with giant pumpkin growing but i figure that more poeple will reply in the general discussion message board. Anyways, what other hobbies do you have besides growing giant pumpkins? I play the drums, guitar, baseball on a team, and for some reason i find paleontology really interesting.

7/10/2003 1:35:43 PM

Edmonton, Canada

hockey, gardening in general, and baseball.

7/10/2003 1:46:31 PM

Alex, IN

I collect rocks and build model rockets.

Mikkal

7/10/2003 1:47:09 PM

Key West, FL

Snowboarding, Fly fishing, Rock climbing, music, and my new found interest is cars.

7/10/2003 2:03:59 PM

wilmington,ma.

Boating,fishing{salt water],gardening,teaching,and staying
alive.

7/10/2003 2:11:43 PM

I do lots of flower gardening. I was in the music program (marching, symphonic, and jazz bands) at my school but now I'm graduated. I also have pet turkeys that I raise (not for eating).

7/10/2003 2:25:21 PM

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Repairing old Peugeot cars (when necessary of course), underwater fishing, drinking beer and I am afraid that my job is becoming a hobby! You can guess why…

7/10/2003 2:32:17 PM

South Hill, Virginia

Cooking and eating mostly. Mounting my hawg cooker on a trailer now and working on an upright smoker to go with it...woo hoo....I feel like such a redneck. I do some canning every summer and make a batch of homebrew from time to time.

I used to build model rockets and belong to a rocket club when I was younger but I didn't think kids did that stuff anymore. I can tell you from experience that being a member of a rocket club doesn't score too many points with the ladies. Neither does the math or chess clubs....I've tried those too.

I'll stop before I soil your thread:)

7/10/2003 2:49:50 PM

Central Missouri

I quilt, craft, and cross stitch

Lindsay

7/10/2003 2:52:44 PM

Webster, NY

I grow bonsai trees and attend boy scout meetings with my son.

7/10/2003 3:00:08 PM

Cooks Creek, Manitoba, Canada

Landscaping/gardening, model rockets, and weather - I have a computerized weather station with a lightning detector.

Svichb is right, these are things that don't gernerally attract the ladies so I began doing all of these things after I finished grade school and had already met my future wife. Now that I have a 2 year old son there are a number of other 'hobbies' I can get into, like pulling out my old AFX race car set - naturally it's for the benifit of my son not me ;-)

7/10/2003 3:01:35 PM

Ljubljana, Slovenia

I forgot mountain biking. It is also an addictive hobby.

7/10/2003 3:04:43 PM

Indiana

Does watching Reality TV, eating, Movies, Nintendo, and a few sports count?

Tom

7/10/2003 3:20:46 PM

Indiana

I like boating, golf, fishing and beach volleyball.

7/10/2003 3:20:57 PM

[email protected]

Parenting, boating, fishing (mostly fresh some salt), gardening, antique small tractor restoration, antique radios (on hold), golf & bicycling. Building my son an awesome flat bike right now.

Great idea for a thread Antonio!

Steve

7/10/2003 3:27:47 PM

Mineral Virginia

paintball, basketball, trying to grow things, lately clearing land & cursing at stumps, fishing if they are biting, photography until my camera was confiscated for what someone else in my house considered "unauthorized" shots at the beach >:( (Tried to explain I was doing a photo study on precisely how much skin 3 pieces of thread could cover.) during the winter Xbox, collecting DVD's. Tricking out my new Kubota, racing stripes going on soon.... 'bout it

7/10/2003 3:29:01 PM

Commack, NY

Snowboarding, Cars, Drums, and dreaming of Dan Carlson

7/10/2003 4:00:14 PM

White Plains, NY

Restoration of a 1944 WWII Marine Jeep and others Military vehicles.

WWII reenactments, parades, etc. so as to Remember and Honor those who Served, Survived and Died so that we can be America!

7/10/2003 4:19:25 PM

Grants Pass, Oregon

I enjoy gardening, fishing ( salt water) going out on the boat and being pulled around on a tube. I also enjoy quilting, and cross stitching. Other hobbies I can not mention. :)

7/10/2003 4:30:20 PM

Chesterfield, MO

I like gardening in general but also spend a lot of time working with computers writing simple programs and doing some web development...and cant forget biking!

Steve G

7/10/2003 4:42:33 PM

Kansas

Softball twice a week along with tourneys some weekends, fishing,boating and restoring a 1957 chevy 4x4 pickup.

Shawn

7/10/2003 5:24:30 PM

Chester Co., PA

Gardening, watching my children grow, camping & fishing, home improvements, and my life long hobby and career Geology and rocks.
Wes

7/10/2003 5:32:13 PM

Roselle, IL [email protected]

Water gardening. I have built ponds, waterfalls ,streams around my property. I have now hooked up a pump to my main pond to water my patch with. Koi, frogs and turtles live here. I now have turned this hobby into my full time job.

George Janowiak
aka the pond guy

7/10/2003 5:53:34 PM

Cornwall UK.(50N 5W)300ft.

Surfing and flyfishing but I only have time for Pumpkins these days.

7/10/2003 5:59:34 PM

Whistler, BC, Canada

My Hobbies, All extreme sports, especially snowboarding, and wakeskating. Anything with two wheels. Boating, wakeboard boats, not speed boats I'm interested in. Mainly all sports in general. Gardening a little, flowers, etc....Interest, everything and anything you can think of, seriously.
Mind for a though, human thought and why things are as so is a passion of mine a truly like to think about....Kyle

7/10/2003 6:04:56 PM

derry n.h u.s.a.

Lol Farmer Scotty:)
Ice fishing in the winter,sking,snowmobiling off the trails(yes i get stuck alot)stripper fishing,and the best hobby of all my family.John

7/10/2003 6:05:20 PM

porterville, calif.

Im in a Mastergardening program here. I put alot of time in helping other people learn to garden. I have written some articles for the newspapers here on different subjects about gardening. (I have a great editer who fixes all my spelling mistakes)I also work with kids teaching them how to grow things. I like to camp, fish, play baseball also watch it. But being outside in the yard and enjoying what nature has done is what keeps me going. Greg

7/10/2003 6:24:56 PM

canal winchester ohio

There's life outside pumpkins??????
I got to get out more.....

7/10/2003 6:35:33 PM

churchville, ny

Fossil collecting, crew chief for my sons at WKA go karting events (this takes as much time as growing pumpkins-if you want to be competitive), watching the reality show "The Amazing Race"-my nephew Brennan won the 1st Amazing Race (NO-he did not share the $1,000,000 with me)

7/10/2003 7:09:02 PM

Bristol, ME ([email protected])

I have been a ham radio operator since 1979: callsign KA1DAX. I also like to fish but that went to hell when I took up this hobby. I race NASCAR 2002 online and I am an avid ice fisherman in the winter with my best catch being a brown trout of 6.92 lbs. right in front of my camp. Fish 30 years and catch the big one right out front of home..go figure..Oh yeah, did I mention I have a masters from the Budweiser school of hops and barley..hehe

7/10/2003 7:55:48 PM

Menomonie, WI ([email protected])

I agree with huff on this one. I used to fish alot now I am down to once a week, The flower gardens used to be nicely weeded. Now they look like wild prairies. Use to grow lots of vegetables for everyone. Now I tell them where and when the farmers market is. Shannon

7/10/2003 7:56:51 PM

Liverpool , England

I collect old farm engines... still looking for an old tractor..growing veggies and flowers and thats about it.

Alun

7/10/2003 8:02:53 PM

Western WA

oh yeah, and like thebez said i like the weather a ton. I also have a computorized weather station, i only check anemometer readings though. lol

7/10/2003 8:18:48 PM

Woodburn, Indiana

well lets see i have an old truck i'm kinda restoring right now, that is a hobby. also i play drums and i'm big into computers. out.

7/10/2003 8:45:51 PM

North Ga

My newest hobbies include watching on John Ds pumpkin cam to see if I can catch him having sex with a pumpkin!!! LOL!!

7/10/2003 8:51:48 PM

canal winchester ohio

lmao!!!!!!!!!

7/10/2003 8:58:07 PM

Tipp City, Ohio

My hobbies includes my wife's Honey Do List, Raising Bantams, my wife's honey do list, complaining to my wife about the weather, Having fun with the kids and did I mention my wife's Honey Do list?

7/10/2003 9:12:34 PM

Appalachian Mtns.

Fly fishing
Coaching kids

7/10/2003 9:50:24 PM

Manchester, N.h.

I used to have all kinds of veggies in my garden and now I have a few tomato plants a couple of cukes, a couple of sqash and two pumpkin plants. MY garden is 50ft by 50ft and if it were up to my husband, well ........ let's just say I only have those veggies so he doesn't think I spend too much time with my beloved pumpkins. Oh ya I love to salt water or lake water fish and do stuff with the kids.....Flora

7/10/2003 9:52:44 PM

Morris, Connecticut

rock climbing, collecting rare trees and shrubs, propagating plants

7/10/2003 10:18:17 PM

Erin,Ontario.

Soccer,Hockey,Fly Fishing,Gardening,Soccer,Little Theatre,AC/DC,Inuit sculpture,Rocks and Soccer.

7/10/2003 10:24:52 PM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

i like going to the opera,ball room dancing drinking perrier water and donating money to P.E.T.A.

7/10/2003 11:07:27 PM

Paradise Mountain, New York

Love to build things in my woodshop. Love to hunt big game. Love to watch Cartoons with my grandchildren when they come up on wekends. Love to play Basketball with my grown up boys still

7/10/2003 11:10:03 PM

[email protected]

LOL Keith

7/10/2003 11:15:18 PM

PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals

right keith??? :-)

7/11/2003 12:09:16 AM

Knopp, Germany

outside of growing AGs i really like to visit this web site

7/11/2003 1:07:01 AM

Sequim, WA

Gardening, exhibiting roses, fishing, fresh and saltwater, g1t can attest to my enthusiasm and lack of success as an angler, especially with salmon. Disc golf and fantasy baseball.

7/11/2003 1:50:39 AM

Usa

swaintech can I send you a picture of a fossil I found and maybe you could help by telling me what it is. I collect rocks.
I garden rare plants, flowers, veggies, AV's, etc.
I raise Chihuahua's and Poodle's.
My Mysti (11 yo) pet poodle died in my arms yesterday.
I fish, camp, ride ATC's, love the outdoors (in a trailer)
I love taking 4x4 rides for a few days of trail rides on roads that haven't been traveled for a few years. Checking out old abandoned mines and everything.
I draw for rubber stamps. I've sold some of my artwork out of a gallery. So I love to draw, paint, read, and do all arts and crafts.
I am now disabled so I have slowed down a whole lot on all the things I enjoy to do. Some things I no longer do.

7/11/2003 3:41:14 AM

Usa

Oh, I also am a ham operator.

7/11/2003 3:41:58 AM

Circleville ,OH.

Fishing, hunting,gardening,bowling and most importantly trying to keep our 2 year old triplets from driving my wife insane!!!!!

7/11/2003 4:05:09 AM

Cameron,ontario Team Lunatic

Fishing and hunting seem to take up much of my time when I'm not growing giants. My wife thinks I should spend more time working on the honey-do-list, but when I have some spare time I will try to get around to it.

7/11/2003 6:47:57 AM

Farmington, Utah

Boating(wakebording and pulling people behind the boat-tubing), coaching my son in football, fishing, houseboating on Lake Powell, my kids

7/11/2003 8:36:43 AM

Deer Park, WI

Cool Thread...I play drums in an hardcore metal band. Also play guitar, bass, keyboard/piano and sing. I love to run 5 kilometer races, weightrain during the winter, collect lake superior agates, paintball, rollerblade, computer gaming (diablo II), sport ATV's, and headbanging to slipknot or american head charge. Never a dull moment here!

7/11/2003 8:51:45 AM

Chico, Ca

I used to homebrew beer before I started doing it for a living. I like to fly radio control sailplanes,go sailing in my thisle, go look at the heavens with my 16" telescope and on rare occasions I fire up my amp and play bass LOUD.

Robert

7/11/2003 8:59:17 AM

Billerica,Massachusetts

snowmobiling,gardening,fishing

7/11/2003 9:15:27 AM

Cologne / Germany

Old cars (not current), being a "treasure hunter" with my detector in the woods, home and garden automation from PC (hope it works someday to give me some more spare time), weather photography and monitoring from PC. And: electronic gadgets, what ever it is. By the way, thanks to my family who is always supporting these hobbies, would be less or no fun without it.

7/11/2003 9:48:14 AM

Western NY

geeze, i'm glad i'm the first one to catch this - John G: i love stripper fishing also.

anyway, beer, seeing as many bands as i can, hunting if i have the time, and just about anyhting else outside.

Andy

7/11/2003 10:37:26 AM

Pulaski Tn [email protected]

what kinda angling equipment do you use for stripper fishing??

7/11/2003 1:12:32 PM

North Ga

dollar bills Keith

7/11/2003 3:06:21 PM

Coventry RI USA

Buffalo Bills football, my 65 GTO and flower gardening. (Dahlias.)

7/11/2003 5:30:10 PM

In the shade - PDX, OR

I'm an outdoors person and like fishing, hiking, camping, traveling etc. I keep Bonsai trees and enjoy 4 wheeling, but my Jeep is broken.

I consider myself as an amature gardener as I have only been at it for 5 seasons. Still got lots to learn.

7/11/2003 6:10:54 PM

bow and arrow deer hunting, bow and arrow deer hunting....gave up on giant pumpkins this season so I could get out scouting more

7/11/2003 7:39:48 PM

northern indiana

Does Drankin count?

7/11/2003 10:14:07 PM

derry n.h u.s.a.

Live Mackeral,jigged up when im in a boat,cut bait and sand eels when im on the rocks,even large lures work good.Oh ya and a 10ft pole with 20lb test or larger.John

7/11/2003 10:22:50 PM

Glenn Springs S.C.

I do woodworking andI recently got a 1951 Cevy truck that is taking up some time. Jeff

7/11/2003 11:03:14 PM

[email protected]

Drankin' counts!

Jeff5, I am envious. But for me a '53-'55 Ford F-100 is what I keep an eye out for.

7/12/2003 7:11:54 AM

Caceres, mid west of Spain

Hey folks, do you mean this summer??????????????
Besides taking care of the pumpkins?????????????
Well... just thinking in where I am going to travel to... next summer when patch will be resting covered only with buckwheat as cover crop.

Don

7/12/2003 7:27:12 AM

Phoenix Az

Raise chihuahuas and am a ham operater.

7/12/2003 12:24:51 PM

New Brunswick

I have a much neglected stamp collection. I also collect cat ornaments. I have a fair amount of the real "cat" variety too (: I also love our dogs and Norwegian Fjord horses. (They are the ones who make my pumpkin patch possible..with their wonderful golden "nuggets") I have two vegetable gardens besides my pumpkin patches as well as several flower beds. I do cross stitch and knit in the winter. I oilpainted up until a year or so ago...I just can't find the time for that now it seems.

7/14/2003 12:36:08 AM

porterville,california usa

gamblin` and pissin` off other people.

7/14/2003 12:44:17 AM