Secret second hobbies
I also do other things.
I am an avid music lover. I get to about 100 shows a year.
Shiprocked is my favorite concert every year. 20 plus bands on a ship. And usually on a beach somewhere on the way.
In the next month, going to killswitch engage, lamb of god, AMON AMARTH, and hate breed to name a few.
Also, hunting season is in full swing. I have deer tags, bear tags, antelope tags and elk tags. Probably go shoot a domestic hog to add to it the winter meat storage.
I'm also an amateur paleontologist. Being raised as a preachers kid I have a need to understand fossils and the history of this earth. So my biggest tooth is a tyrannosaur tooth that is about 3" long. Technically, it's an albertosaurus from the judith river formation in the cretaceous era.
But my best find is a premaxilla of a egg aged baby Troodon raptor. One of the single smartest dinosaurs ever and definitely the scariest due to it's hands and size of brain.
And it's a baby!!
I do like guns, but alas, I lost all of them in a boating accident.
Since I am an amateur paleontologist I inherently look for gem stones, arrowheads and artifacts as well.
Mount Antero is in my back yard, the only location for aqua marine in the country. I go up that mountain at least 12 times a year. Largest single stone I have found is around 1300 dollars for it's karat weight.
My best arrowheads, well, spear points really as most of what everyone calls arrowheads were spear points. Bow and Arrows were a very recent technology of the injuns. The best I have is a clovis and an Ishi.
Motorcycles, I have a few harley's and a few crotch rockets and a few dirt bikes. I hit sturgis and this year got about 2400 miles for the 12 day adventure. Saw several national monuments and hung with the most partriotic crowd in America at the ONLY American made festival. I dirt bike up as many high altitude trails as I can in the summertime. The rockets, well, that's when I really need a good 150 mph kick in the ***.
I grow marijuana as a hobby. I had 1500 plants 4 years ago. I make oil for folks that need the medication. I used to take care of children that had very serious seizure issues, hence the 1500 plants. Really, just a hobby.
Cars of course. Some 30 or more? Mopars and pontiacs. All findable here or on ebodies.org or the other for only sites.
I have quite the knife collection.
Something about cold steel that is so different than boom sticks.
I also collect, weird old metal things from years gone by that no one uses any longer. I find it very interesting to learn what the old timers remember about the early metal contraptions.
Auctions are great places to find weird stuff and meet old fella's and learn some stuff.
My real job, I build custom homes. With my hands. I'm not a dashboard general. I build million piece puzzles at elevations of 9000 feet and above.
I have so many more hobbies. LIfe is too short. I can only pack so much information into the mind. Time is the only thing that stops me from having more fun.
Life is short, so live it to the fullest!!
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I also do other things.
I am an avid music lover. I get to about 100 shows a year.
Shiprocked is my favorite concert every year. 20 plus bands on a ship. And usually on a beach somewhere on the way.
In the next month, going to killswitch engage, lamb of god, AMON AMARTH, and hate breed to name a few.
Also, hunting season is in full swing. I have deer tags, bear tags, antelope tags and elk tags. Probably go shoot a domestic hog to add to it the winter meat storage.
I'm also an amateur paleontologist. Being raised as a preachers kid I have a need to understand fossils and the history of this earth. So my biggest tooth is a tyrannosaur tooth that is about 3" long. Technically, it's an albertosaurus from the judith river formation in the cretaceous era.
But my best find is a premaxilla of a egg aged baby Troodon raptor. One of the single smartest dinosaurs ever and definitely the scariest due to it's hands and size of brain.
And it's a baby!!
I do like guns, but alas, I lost all of them in a boating accident.
Since I am an amateur paleontologist I inherently look for gem stones, arrowheads and artifacts as well.
Mount Antero is in my back yard, the only location for aqua marine in the country. I go up that mountain at least 12 times a year. Largest single stone I have found is around 1300 dollars for it's karat weight.
My best arrowheads, well, spear points really as most of what everyone calls arrowheads were spear points. Bow and Arrows were a very recent technology of the injuns. The best I have is a clovis and an Ishi.
Motorcycles, I have a few harley's and a few crotch rockets and a few dirt bikes. I hit sturgis and this year got about 2400 miles for the 12 day adventure. Saw several national monuments and hung with the most partriotic crowd in America at the ONLY American made festival. I dirt bike up as many high altitude trails as I can in the summertime. The rockets, well, that's when I really need a good 150 mph kick in the ***.
I grow marijuana as a hobby. I had 1500 plants 4 years ago. I make oil for folks that need the medication. I used to take care of children that had very serious seizure issues, hence the 1500 plants. Really, just a hobby.
Cars of course. Some 30 or more? Mopars and pontiacs. All findable here or on ebodies.org or the other for only sites.
I have quite the knife collection.
Something about cold steel that is so different than boom sticks.
I also collect, weird old metal things from years gone by that no one uses any longer. I find it very interesting to learn what the old timers remember about the early metal contraptions.
Auctions are great places to find weird stuff and meet old fella's and learn some stuff.
My real job, I build custom homes. With my hands. I'm not a dashboard general. I build million piece puzzles at elevations of 9000 feet and above.
I have so many more hobbies. LIfe is too short. I can only pack so much information into the mind. Time is the only thing that stops me from having more fun.
Life is short, so live it to the fullest!!
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