Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

Sounds like an interesting run and for a good cause. Just the other weekend I participated in a small 5k run to help raise funds for fallen bomb disposal troops, this one was for a young man killed in action in 2010.

 

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Flying. Here's yours-truly and a TB-10 Tobago, French-made plane by Socata...



The plane is not mine - it belongs to my friend Bill G- We took a short hop from Lancaster to Bay Bridge today, perfect flying weather in PA. He flew us there, I brought us back. Our flight plan dog-legged around Annapolis. (The Navy gets cranky when you trespass their air space.)



Lancaster farmland territory...



More scenery...



This is the Annapolis area with nice bridges...



I wanted to take some pics of the Bay Bridge over the Chesapeake, but by the time you get a good view of it you're already close to landing and it's sterile cockpit.

One more image over the Chesapeake. This area was a smooth ride in, but on the way back, the thermals were active, so I got some good practice flying in mild turbulence...

 

Sounds like you had a great time John.

I have only flown with one person. A friend in western NE who will be nameless. He bought himself a tail dragger while he was getting his license, Cessna I believe, but don't remember. What I will remember until my dying day, is how he flew it...

He flew it like he drove his vehicles, and he was averaging totaling one vehicle a year. Not counting being airborne up on the Oglala Indian Reservation.

The very first time he took me up was the same week he got his license. Big mistake on my part. We no sooner had we attained altitude than he said "Watch This", and proceeded to stall the plane. Then he showed me how he could roll it on its side. Then he saw a rancher he knew and landed in the middle of a prairie dog town. Then he had to take off uphill bouncing over the prairie dog mounds in order to catch the wind. We cleared the barb wire fence by just over 3 feet.

Later when I wasn't there he landed in a muddy field and his wife had to get the truck to pull him to a gravel road for take off.

 

He must have attended Death Wish Flight School, lol.

 

Ha! You should have seen the way he drove.
"I have New Michelins" "Watch this!".
Next thing you know you are taking a curve on ice at 60 mph.
Next thing you know you are going under barb wire into a pasture.

 

I like to collect model airplane kits; especially old one with great artwork; also am a sometime builder of same. A lot of my spare time is devoted to metal detecting; it lets me get away from everything for a while and rest the decision-making part of my brain. In 5-6 yrs. of detecting, I've found a 1794 Liberty Cap Penny and an 1875-cc Seated Dime and a Seated Quarter from the same year, plus a few other nice ones, most all here in the town where I live. Awesome! Another pursuit is keeping my '93 SAAB 900 on the road. I still have my tools from when I used to impersonate an auto mechanic (1993 is my self-imposed tech limit). If you add in a little judicious coin buying and, voracious history book reading and "Handy Andy" work on our house and garage, I keep myself off the streets and out of trouble. (Cited from: https://www.cointalk.com/threads/as...any-other-hobbies.290248/page-57#post-3554003)

 

I am a builder have been since a boy and knowing my Dad was with the 92ndBG in the 8th.I have some 250-300 built and that many more to build.I try not to buy anymore but it still happens occasionally.The nautical theme is creeping up on me now with a finishing of a wood one in there somewhere it's already started"Pride of Baltimore"

 

As my fixed income budget buys fewer coins I spend more time taking photos of the same old ones. I have been going to the local library to use their 3D printer. This is a turtle holding a turtle sitting in a PLA swamp made from remelted scrap from their trash bin. It is a new hobby and cheap while using library equipment.

 

I play piano and compose music:
http://feltemp.com/Songs.html

 

In an earlier message I posted a picture of an antique pistol I misplaced. I found the pistol. Notice the cool bronze grips.
An appraiser told me the grips are worth as much or more than the pistol.

Also, I found a cool medal w/ the pistol.

 

I'm not a gun person, but I do like the grips on it.

 

Thanks.
The pistol grips are bronze.

 

There has been some guns and even swords I have found interesting or attractive. It's usually when I watch pawn stars or, mainly, Antiques Roadshow, they feature a lot.

I will say the antique that bores me the most are clocks. Mantel, Pocket, Grandfather, you name it. Just don't care for them.

I skip the segments when they appear on tv.

 

I'm not a gun person either, which is why I only own rifles.

 

Anything with Roger Williams, the Rhode Island founding/ Tercentenary Celebration in 1936. Like these pitchers with the famous scene of Williams meeting the Narragansett Tribe. They were made for sale during the 3 day Tercentenary event. There are 2 different sizes, and you can see the original cost on this fan/advertisement for the item and the store on Westminster St, in Providence. The back of the fan has a familiar scene same as this plate and late 19th Century steel engraving print that I had matted and framed for the Wife to keep it legal, thanks for looking:

 

"I liked the owl heads on its grips. "

That pistol w/ owl grips might have been worth some bucks.

 

"Anything with Roger Williams, the Rhode Island founding/ Tercentenary Celebration in 1936. Like these pitchers with the famous scene of Williams meeting the Narragansett Tribe"

Very interesting collection.