Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

It's too soon to call it a hobby yet, but I bought my first drone (DJI Mini 2) and I love it so far. It takes amazing 4k video, it's very easy to fly, and it's really addicting. It's amazing how different your town looks from above.

 

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@Tall Paul, since I, for one, haven't said so yet, Welcome! ...to our motley crew.
...With acknowledgement of the space constraints, I have to resonate with your prior engagement with vintage Innuit sculpture. One of my paternal uncles collected them ...until he ran smack into a comparable constellation of constraints. You could spend the rest of your life just processing the esthetic at work, and where it came from.
(...Two things I smack my own hands for ...especially at this time of the day: excessive alliteration, or equally unanticipated rhyming. Definitely did one of 'em, (d-)just, Didn't I?)

 

I collect Hockey Cards NY Islanders even before I started collecting coins, campaign bottoms, and Colombian Expo items just because I asked what this 1893 1/2 Dollar was. It opened a new world of collecting for me. Also just started collecting some ANA Convention medals. I guess when you are a collector it never stops. I am thinking of purchasing a old Greek or Roman coins I see you guys collect. Just to have.

 

"I collect spores, molds, and fungus" - ???

 

Fungi are amazing. I've read stories where some are many square miles in size.
Psilocybin mushrooms?

 

My best friend in college was a caver; he introduced me to the club, which had more than its share of cool people, and took me into a (non-commercial) cave one time. I'm fascinated by underground spaces and passages. Unfortunately, I apparently have a streak of claustrophobia, which I never suspected until I got (momentarily) stuck in a narrow passage. It's never a factor in my daily life, but I realized I wasn't going to be the one pushing new passages, much though I would've liked it.

Wonder if caving drones are a thing, or if I could make them one...

 

If they seemed that big, you'd probably had too many.

 

A lot fungi grow underground in colonies that may be very very large.
Trees depend on fungi.

 

So do college tennis shoes...

 

Oh, yeah. But not those particular fungi you mentioned, at least as far as I know...?

 

I'm so new to flying a drone, and yesterday was cold, dark, and gray, but I brought the drone to the lake for some scenery and to fly over all the ice fishermen there (the video looks best on as big a screen as you have available):

 

Two recent acquisitions:
First is a little Chinese puzzle ball mounted on a pedestal it's about 5" tall
next is a cool mechanical clock made in Occupied Japan that about 7" tall.
When the clock movement is active the little birdr back/forth about 140 degrees.

 

I got a nice bonus on this last paycheck and for some unknown reason I just bought some different pendants off Etsy.com that I find very interesting...



Macassar ebony wood


Hand forged hammered copper


Bardic copper and brass pendant. Made from a modern druid. The Order of Bards, Ovates, and Druids. It is an organization that teaches people the history of the druidic order as well as current day practices. Druidism is a belief system from Europe that originated around 2500 years ago. This pendant is symbolic of the first level of the organization - the Bard. A handcrafted Bardic pendant based on the O.B.O.D tradition. The copper and brass offer a subtle contrast between the circle and square that make up the pendant. The jump ring has been placed such that the symbol can freely rotate, keeping the integrity of the shapes intact and representing the freedom of nature.

The circle within the pendant represents both the world and the celestial bodies while the square represents the four elements that the tradition studies. The interlacing of the two represents the interdependence of the concepts. Druidry is a vital and dynamic nature spirituality that is flourishing all over the world.
It unites their love of the earth with our love of creativity and the arts.

Flowing through all the exciting new developments in modern druidism is the power of an ancient tradition: the love of land, sea and sky – the love of the earth our home. I am fascinated with the symbolic meaning of this creative pendant.


A dragon eye...


I will make these alien heads into pendants...

 

Since I'm still waiting for coins to arrive from across the pond, this new drone helps to kill some time. This is the town where I live in central Pennsylvania.

 

Can't you send your drone to pick up the coins and bring them back to you?

 

Absolutely, and I'll have it check on the Mars rovers on its way back!

 

Chasing my tail

 

I bought 3 more tarantulas off Ebay for the spider collection...

 

Since I have stopped buying coins for a while, I am spending more time taking photos of things that are not coins. I enjoy birds.

 

An Ethiopian opal pendant...




Just the pendant no chain. Opal is my birthstone.

and a very small cats eye...




and 2 hammered copper pendants I finally received...



and a cocobolo wood pendant...


and 1 Galaxy Helix Nebula pendant...