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irvingdog

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Gym and boxing. Yes, some sicko's actually box for fun. I'm to old, so I basically just knock heads with an old sparring buddy.

Hunting and range shooting

fishing and boating

Gardening

Weekend home improvement warrior

 

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Ahhhh......the moist nose of a German Wirehaired Pointer!

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mtnsteve

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Backpacking

Climbing

Caving

Mountaineering

Back Country Skiing

Snow Camping

Computers

 

Forgot about...

Reading

Physics

 

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It's not about the mistakes we make, it's about what we learn from them....

 

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brdad

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Originally posted by ChazC:

Collecting old HP Calculators

 

I bet you're fun at a party! icon_wink.gif

 

Myself, besides being a full time dad ... fishing, camping, electronics, ATVing, autos, computers, mapping, science, and nature. Kinda explains why my cache count isn't increasing too fast.

 

OK, guess I'm not exactly party material either. But someones gotta be designated driver anyway...

 

Never date a girl whose father calls her princess - chances are she beleives it.

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brdad

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quote:
Originally posted by ChazC:

Collecting old HP Calculators

 

I bet you're fun at a party! icon_wink.gif

 

Myself, besides being a full time dad ... fishing, camping, electronics, ATVing, autos, computers, mapping, science, and nature. Kinda explains why my cache count isn't increasing too fast.

 

OK, guess I'm not exactly party material either. But someones gotta be designated driver anyway...

 

Never date a girl whose father calls her princess - chances are she beleives it.

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HamsterMom & Hamsters of War

HamsterMom & Hamsters of War

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Genealogy - Kids call it digging up dead people - if I use the gps to get to the library would it be caching dead people?

 

Also Arts and Crafts - just placed a homemade quilted christmas stocking in Tehachapi Treasure Cache

 

Trying to find time to get into the SCA- Society for Creative Anachronism www.sca.org Of course a gps would be OOP (out of period)!

 

Hamsters - buy 2 get 10 free!

Draykoh, Yorik, Senyth, Harry, Hermione, Ron, Rubeus, Minerva, Ginny, Jumper, Pounce, Lenny, Squiggy, Micro-Sprite, Midgey and our much loved Boru (RIP)

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Desert_Warrior

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NRA High-Power rifle competition.

USPSA Combat Pistol competition.

Ham Radio. (KD9KC - Extra class)

Restoring a 1976 DJ-5D Postal Jeep.

Training dogs. Currently working with a two year old Great Dane, who had passed his Canine Good Citizen, qualified with Therapy Dogs International, and has one leg on a CD title. His name is Parker, and he thinks he owns the jeep! He was a butthead at the match today, he was DQed.

 

Mike.

 

Mike. KD9KC.

El Paso, Texas.

 

Seventeen minutes after her FIRST call for help, police officers arrived to find Ronyale White dead.

 

Prohibiting self defense is the ultimate crime. Police carry guns to protect themselves. What protects YOU ???

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wmas1960

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Most of my hobbies tend to intertwine.

 

Photography

Astronomy

Astrophotography

 

A friend turned me on to GeoCaching.com I haven't gotten out yet but I already know of a good cache near an observatory in Wisconsin that I want to seek out. There are also a couple benchmarks around there. Yerkes has a great view of Lake Geneva which would make some good pictures. I like taking pictures of wildlife and look forward to taking my digital camera on cache hunts. I bought a Whites Spectrum XLT (metal detector) a few years ago and have enjoyed the brief hunts that I have made with it. Could come in handy with Geocaching and especially Benchmarking. It is stuck down in FLA and I am in ILL. icon_frown.gif I expected to get back down there last spring but never did with threats of airline strikes... Hopefully I will be back down there before I can find someone to send the detector back. OH, there are more caches down there!!! icon_cool.gif

 

I spend a great bit of time on the computer reading geocaching.com and some other sites related to hobbies like Casino Collectables.

 

I bowl a couple nites a week and got involved in a league that goes to Las Vegas every June for a tournement. I enjoy collecting everything that isn't nailed down. Especially chips and tokens. Better when I win them rather than have to buy them. Matches, Swizzle Sticks, Mardi Gras Beads, Cocktain Napkins, Hurricanes and the glasses they come in icon_cool.gif ... I love going to VEGAS and meant to do some caching last June when I was there. I left the clue sheets on the coffee table at home. icon_frown.gif

 

I have some ideas of trying to incorporate my astrophotography and other photography, maybe bowling, definately casino collectables and some of my other hobbies into themed caches.

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wmas1960

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Most of my hobbies tend to intertwine.

 

Photography

Astronomy

Astrophotography

 

A friend turned me on to GeoCaching.com I haven't gotten out yet but I already know of a good cache near an observatory in Wisconsin that I want to seek out. There are also a couple benchmarks around there. Yerkes has a great view of Lake Geneva which would make some good pictures. I like taking pictures of wildlife and look forward to taking my digital camera on cache hunts. I bought a Whites Spectrum XLT (metal detector) a few years ago and have enjoyed the brief hunts that I have made with it. Could come in handy with Geocaching and especially Benchmarking. It is stuck down in FLA and I am in ILL. icon_frown.gif I expected to get back down there last spring but never did with threats of airline strikes... Hopefully I will be back down there before I can find someone to send the detector back. OH, there are more caches down there!!! icon_cool.gif

 

I spend a great bit of time on the computer reading geocaching.com and some other sites related to hobbies like Casino Collectables.

 

I bowl a couple nites a week and got involved in a league that goes to Las Vegas every June for a tournement. I enjoy collecting everything that isn't nailed down. Especially chips and tokens. Better when I win them rather than have to buy them. Matches, Swizzle Sticks, Mardi Gras Beads, Cocktain Napkins, Hurricanes and the glasses they come in icon_cool.gif ... I love going to VEGAS and meant to do some caching last June when I was there. I left the clue sheets on the coffee table at home. icon_frown.gif

 

I have some ideas of trying to incorporate my astrophotography and other photography, maybe bowling, definately casino collectables and some of my other hobbies into themed caches.

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evilrooster

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My main hobby right now is bookbinding.

 

This means all my cache logs are hand-bound. Micros get rice paper Japanese-stiched notepads, traditional caches get leatherbound logs (clearly marked to discourage plundering). And hand-bound mini-"tomes", about 2" x 1 1/2", are a fair way to being my "signature item". icon_biggrin.gif

 

evilrooster

-the email of the species is deadlier than the mail-

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evilrooster

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My main hobby right now is bookbinding.

 

This means all my cache logs are hand-bound. Micros get rice paper Japanese-stiched notepads, traditional caches get leatherbound logs (clearly marked to discourage plundering). And hand-bound mini-"tomes", about 2" x 1 1/2", are a fair way to being my "signature item". icon_biggrin.gif

 

evilrooster

-the email of the species is deadlier than the mail-

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Team StitchesOnQuilts

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Will I win "The Most Obvious" award if I point out that I like to quilt? icon_wink.gif

 

We also like to do woodworking, go camping, play bridge, and play board games in general. Oh, and the whole family loves to travel - sometimes we enjoy getting to the cache as much as hunting it.

 

I do pretty much anything in the needlework area, like crochet, needlepoint, embroider, etc.

 

Hubby is into FRP. He's with a group that has been together so long, they gave up doing pre-written games, like D&D, and now write their own. I'm not much of a gamer, but I find their games really interesting and creative.

 

We were surprised and pleased to learn, this year, that our oldest son has a real talent for painting. He sure didn't get that from me: I'm probably the world's lousiest painter! icon_rolleyes.gif He did an impressionistic painting of iris flowers that I'm going to have framed.

 

Shannah

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Team StitchesOnQuilts

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Will I win "The Most Obvious" award if I point out that I like to quilt? icon_wink.gif

 

We also like to do woodworking, go camping, play bridge, and play board games in general. Oh, and the whole family loves to travel - sometimes we enjoy getting to the cache as much as hunting it.

 

I do pretty much anything in the needlework area, like crochet, needlepoint, embroider, etc.

 

Hubby is into FRP. He's with a group that has been together so long, they gave up doing pre-written games, like D&D, and now write their own. I'm not much of a gamer, but I find their games really interesting and creative.

 

We were surprised and pleased to learn, this year, that our oldest son has a real talent for painting. He sure didn't get that from me: I'm probably the world's lousiest painter! icon_rolleyes.gif He did an impressionistic painting of iris flowers that I'm going to have framed.

 

Shannah

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Desert_Warrior

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Will I win "The Most Obvious" award if I point out that I like to quilt?

 

There are a lot of ham radio operators (like me) using their radio callsigns as their Geocaching name. I think that is pretty obvious. You didn't think we were using our car license numbers, did you??? .

 

Mike. KD9KC.

El Paso, Texas.

 

Seventeen minutes after her FIRST call for help, police officers arrived to find Ronyale White dead.

 

Prohibiting self defense is the ultimate crime. Police carry guns to protect themselves. What protects YOU ???

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