What hobby do you do in the winter ?

[ItsSawGood]

In the winter, and pretty much all year round, you can find me in my garage, scroll sawing away to keep up my Etsy shop as well as getting ready for the upcoming craft show season.

 

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[Frankn]

Everything that I have seen, and read about, but never experienced (so what I say is based on that), is the snowbird lived a fairly meager existence just to avoid the snow. I honestly could not leave my childrens and grandchildrens to do this... but I dream of it nonetheless. How pure a life it would be to stave off winter chills by simply moving south and back north again when it gets too hot down there.

Well, you could try what I do, that is take off for a month to a pleasant climate area with a cache target on the agenda, but no defined schedule. It peaceful, relief and fun. The true golden years!
Frank
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[Frankn]

I usually spend the winter tinkering with the motorcycles and I hope this year to complete a vintage bicycle project that I am working on. When it is not to cold to be it the garage that is.

JimK

I do like that blue on the frame and fender of her bike. Frank

 

[JimK]

I do like that blue on the frame and fender of her bike. FrankView attachment 1060168

Thanks. We built and painted both in our garage

JimK

 

[OBN]

Painted for several years as a Hobby, every winter there was a line, tanks, frames, fenders, now my winter hobby is Making parts for MOds to the Minelab Excaliburs....and winter water hunting...but not on windy days and when things are just to icey...

 

[Tnmountains]

In a tree bow hunting on my days off. Fill my freezers and a few others.

 

[Kodiak43351]

Hunting of course but I like to research old areas where I live and read a lot about the history of this area. I try to get out when ground isn't frozen or snow covered but I live in NW Ohio and sometimes it's impossible to detect.

 

[BC1969]

In a tree bow hunting on my days off. Fill me freezers and a few others.

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Can't beat venison jerky...got any extra racks or sheds ? been wanting to start making antler wind chimes..I was quite surprised to see the money they bring.

BC

 

[Tnmountains]

Mike I had cut some up for a guy who made knifes. I would like to make a chair haha. Not seen antler wind chimes?

 

[BC1969]

yeah I have a buddy that uses them for knife handles to. yeah the wind chimes are popular up here in Michigan, I seen one guy that makes chandeliers out of them.

Mike

 

[Fourwayz]

Not so cold here in NC. Still hunt a few spots.

 

[texasred777]

Well, I spent most of 2011, 12, and 13 winters reworking some guns that I bought and some that I already had, but needing some TLC. I'm not a professional gunsmith, so I just do what I can to the guns. Since I'm not set up for 'hot bluing', I just use a cold blue solution. In a few more days, when the cold weather sets in, I will check each gun to see if it needs anything done to it. I've got several .22 rifles, some shotguns, a couple of revolvers, and a .380 pistol. A couple of the shotguns and several of the .22 rifles were in pretty bad shape when I bought them. I'll try to post some pictures of them sometime.

Other than 'tinkering' with guns or some such things, I love to play games on the computer and occasionally strum the guitar a little.

If the snow is falling, I love to just sit with a cup of coffee or hot cocoa and just watch it. I can sit for hours watching the snow fall. Living in Texas almost of my life, I've seen very little snowfall. The first year I lived here, I saw more snow than I had ever seen in my entire lifetime. I'm like a kid when it comes to snow; but there is a difference. A kid likes to play in the snow, building snowmen and having snowball fights. I'm retired, so I don't have to get out in the snow! I don't mind running to the store occasionally, or even standing out in the snow for a few minutes. But, if I was still working outside most of the time, no, I wouldn't like it!

 

[dirtscratcher]

Icefishing.

 

[kenstein]

Woodworking , particularly enjoy building boxes.

 

[fistfulladirt]

Woodworking , particularly enjoy building boxes.

Boxes?

 

[Tnmountains]

Woodworking , particularly enjoy building boxes.

I do a lot of restorations on older houses. I also like woodworking. I have seen some intricate boxes.

 

[prolab69]

first i go to star-bucks and fill my pockets with coffee stirrers, then i visit the art store and pick up some wooden dowels, some thread, wood stain, sand paper, wood glue, paint sets. ... 4 feet of snow and a creative mind can create quite a cool model, this spanish galleon only took 3 months to build last winter. the internet has all the pictures you need for ideas. this model measures about a foot and 1/2 long and a foot and 1/2 high.

 

[texasred777]

Prolab69, that's a great looking galleon! I haven't the patience for some of small intricacies to do something like this! But, I really enjoy seeing the finished product of someone else that has that kind of patience. Thanks.

 

[Kodiak43351]

first i go to star-bucks and fill my pockets with coffee stirrers, then i visit the art store and pick up some wooden dowels, some thread, wood stain, sand paper, wood glue, paint sets. ... 4 feet of snow and a creative mind can create quite a cool model, this spanish galleon only took 3 months to build last winter. the internet has all the pictures you need for ideas. this model measures about a foot and 1/2 long and a foot and 1/2 high.

wow that looks great! You have a great talent. Good looking galleon.

 

[Lady Pirate]

I keep these hands busy....I paint ceramics, I diddle in oil painting, now trying gouache painting, I do different types of crafts to make for our house/ and make for others, I crochet, I love to sew clothes, I quilt, I sew house stuff, I scrapbook, I make scented cachets and sell them, I have the stuff to make jewelery but have not started yet, I do genealogy and if I find anything else that trips my trigger.....I will start that also!