Aside From Coins, Do You Have Any Other Hobbies?

Beautiful photos! I don't suppose you can identify the birds for the city people among us (namely me) whose bird knowledge is extremely limited?

 

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Eastern Bluebird (male)
Red Bellied Woodpecker (female)
Red Headed Woodpecker (sexes are colored alike)

 

Thanks!

 

Birds, like ancient coins, are best when un-slabbed!

SC

 

The advantage of having 3 different hobbies : when the prices of coins are getting crazy, you buy a new telescope or a new guitar. Today the guitar won. At @svessien demand, here is my new old 1974 Gibson ES 150 WD "walnut". 100% completely original, without a scratch or a dent, bought from the only an first owner ! This model is exactly like the ES-335...except with a slightly ticker body. Goodbye friends, I'll be in my studio for the rest of the evening...

 

What a beauty!

 

More for the cat figurine collection...

Carved Canadian nephrite jade cat... gorgeous greens...




carved buffalo bone cat head...


and more cats eyes gemstones...



and 1 sterling silver ghost pendant...

 

Thanks to masterswimmer for getting there before I did. I am not spending as much time on CT as I did when I was actively collecting. City people, I understand, have a good chance of seeing hawks. I am suburban and get a good mix of birds in the yard.

 

What kind of buffalo has a white horn?

 

Oops typo. buffalo bone. Thank you for the correction.

 

Ha! Thought you might have found a white buffalo.

 

Opps typo is incorrect, I think you meant oops!

 

Well, there are active hobbies and inactive hobbies...those interests, even avid interests, that for various reasons you can't/haven't practice(d) or participate(d) in. Active for me with coins is old/older movies including silents, big-band, jazz, hard-core blue-grass, hard-core country and cowboy/western music, U.S. history and non-fiction reading (favorite author is David McCullough). Inactive and/or former hobbies are/were old and pre-70 classic cars, guns and Harleys/motorcycling, professional and personal.

 

I met Nimoy at Pontious Airport, in the Mojave Desert. He was getting a drink from the water fountain. We had flown in to see the first Shuttle landing, Columbia, at Rogers Dry Lake in 1981. I only said Hello. Didn't want to bother him.

 

First foray into this thread and I spy this!!!

Oh man. That is absolutely excellent

My first guitar was an ES-335(copy) - Red/black pick guard.

W/out the real deal Grover pegs, it would never stay in tune, especially if doing anything with the whammy bar.

Nonetheless, it sure looked pretty slick while doing my best "Johnny B Goode" impersonation thru the old beat up tube-amp that it came with.

 

I collect Civil war stuff. I live on a Harrisburg/Tupelo, Ms. Battlefield area and sometimes find civil war bullets when I dig for a bush or tree to plant. I have a few civil war belt buckles (bought not found ) and a Yankee bayonet and a Era pinfire pistol (maybe you smart folks can tell me more about)

 

A brilliant question. Surely, there must be some squirrely common denominator/history-inquisitive thread but really, what difference does it make?

 

Well, we're all human and there's more to our lives than coins (believe it or not )...it's kind of a nice, friendly break in the coin-ice now/then, and members can participate and peruse it or not.

 

Yarn. Pictures. Abe Lincoln

 

1 more Fordite cabochon I bought off Ebay...check out all those paint layers...amazing....