Other Hobbies?

[cuda hunter]

I like to paint in water color, oil, and acrylic. Had a one-man show of forty paintings in Soho, New York City.

That's incredible.  especially that first picture.  really hard to tell that it's not a picture.
LIke how the visual effect is on that horses legs!

I was a muralist for about 3 years in the front range of Colorado.  Really enjoyed painting.  Put together two huge children's museum exhibits.  Some murals in air force academy.  Still have a mural at the hippo outside section of the cheyenne mtn zoo.
also did a ton of work on a Martin Luther King elementary school.  In the ghetto.  (respectively a Colorado Ghetto)   not that bad.

Glad to read there is another artist on the forum. I always wanted to do a mural. Since you like the harness racer here is a picture titled "Crazy Legs" from that series showing what happens between point A and point B. Sorry about the flash.

  Murals are just like the smaller pictures you paint.  You just have to think in larger paint pixels/swatch's.  with your talent you wouldn't have a problem. 

[cuda hunter]

Europe huh?  sounds like fun.  Cost effective for touring europe?
What parts of Colorado do you come down to ride? Do you do dirtbikes in Colorado?

what caliber ar?  I'm currently shooting a 375 ar15.

    I have been to Europe riding 3 times.  Mostly Germany, Italy, and Austria.  I have used https://www.edelweissbike.com and love them.  I like to do their least expensive trips where I carry my own belongings, and have longer and tougher days riding than sightseeing. 
    I have friends in Frisco and my best bud lives on Lookout Mtn. west of Denver.  He is a nut job, and takes me extreme mountain biking.  Broke my finger and bruised my hip last time I was there.
  I have been there dirt biking before a couple of times.  I remember doing the continental divide by the Moffit Tunnel.  I don't know all the details, since I just follow my friends.  I usually feel way in over my head while I am out there.  It really is an extreme place and my buddy pushes me to do crazy stuff. 
   I have an Eagle Arms AR15 by Armalite with a hybrid chamber for .223/.556 with a Vortex scope.  That is a pretty neat machine.  Fun to shoot.  My handgun is a Browning Buckmark .22 with a trigger kit.  Accurate, fun, and cheap.
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  I'll will check out the europe site.  Sounds like an exciting time! 

  Colorado is extreme for sports.  I live here and push myself every time I go out.  Broke my right hand last fall.  50 miles from anything and no one to help.  so I rode it out of single track trails very carefully. 

  Armalite is a great brand.  I just put them together with parts you can buy here and there.  super easy to build an ar.  I've really grown to like the platform.    Had the upper and the barrel machined into a .375.   hell of a kick. hornady and makers mark bullets are available.  175 and 225 grains.
I think my favorite ar15 platform is a tie between the 6.8 and the 7.62x39.   I've played with several different calibers but those seem to be the best.
I like 223 but you can't hunt in Colorado with 223.  Has to be 24 or larger. 

  That browning is an awesome and accurate plinker.  And as my ole timme buddy tells me, back in the depression they would kill any animal for dinner with one shot of a 22. 

[spiritbird65]

Besides doing my stained glass hobby creating my Custom Flamed Headlights and Lighted Shadow box/picture frames of Angels, Animals, Nature Scenes I have also over the last 5 years been developing myself on a spiritual level. I have been working towards developing and enhancing some gifts I learned I had or that came to me after consecutively going through 3 major losses in my family within a year and a half. My home had and still has a great amount of paranormal since the passing of my family members (everything I feel here is in a good way). I have even captured a few things on film, mostly orbs but we have seen many things with our own eyes.

Anyhow, I realize that many people have varying and different beliefs and respect this fully but for myself...I can say that I no longer ride the fence on this. Being a very strong empath one of the gifts I have, I wound up performing a spirit release at a local hotel in Buffalo NY. I was actually invited by my sisters car club to join in on a ghost hunt with a paranormal group at this hotel which I originally declined several times but later decided to go. To clarify further it was not my intention in going there to do this spirit release, I was simply invited as a guest it was more a result of what I felt inside myself when I toured the 17th floor with the group and the sadness for the trapped spirit that was in that room. Anyhow, I can not explain easily here what changed my mind on going to this because it involves something that came to me in a dream state or meditative state as some may call it to join this tour and I did not even realize why or my purpose at that time. Anyhow, everything being as dark as it was on this floor because it had been closed off to the public for many years I still managed to see movement at the end of the hall way after very particular prayers were said by me and then managed to snap off two pics before my camera battery which was fully charged went dead. Anyone on the tour could bring cameras but no flashes were advised because the tour guides explained that any paranormal will show it's own illumination if it's there and present.

So I will share with you the two pics of the release . The best way to view them is to open them in a program such as windows photo viewer which allows you to zoom in closer. You will see in the first pic the white light coming in through the ceiling of that floor and in the 2nd pic  the white ligh take on the form of a hand complete with thumb and it is grasping what looks very much the shape of a person (sitting with knees bent tucked underneath them) and the white light is pulling them out a window. This was a spirit of a young girl who was trapped since the 1920's close to 100 years after what they said was a suicide but had never fully proven. The sadness before these pics was overwhelming and after the photos were taken by me I can not explain in words how that sadness completely left my body and relief took it's place. Many signs and synchronicities came to me the very next day and I now know the reason I was meant to go on that tour and I also feel it was part of my development as well to be there in that place and at that time. 

[DAYLEY/CHALLENGER]

I do a little collecting of Coca Cola items...........

[Spikedog08]

That is some serious coca-cola stuff!  My best friend worked for coke and had some stuff but nothing like that!  Wow

[js27]

So many cool hobbies here.
Beside Mopars ---Mine are Photography since I was a kid with a Kodak 126 Instamatic camera but have been shooting Nikons since 1980. I have shot a few wedding back in the 80-90 but now just like nature and wildlife. I have been a Martial Artist since 1979 and had my own school back in 1986 to 1996. I love target shooting pistol and rifles and do some Fossil Hunting mostly shark teeth and have found some Megladon Teeth. I just started getting into Kayaking last year.  VAN GOGH said " Too Know Life Best Is To LOVE Many Things"
Just a few shots of my hobbies.
JS27

[dodj]

I do a little collecting of Coca Cola items...........

So what do you say at a restaurant when the waitress asks 'is Pepsi OK?' 

[DAYLEY/CHALLENGER]

I do a little collecting of Coca Cola items...........

So what do you say at a restaurant when the waitress asks 'is Pepsi OK?' 

I do,usually prefer Pepsi! Or Dr Pepper. 

[Jim AAR]

I do a little collecting of Coca Cola items...........

That looks a little bit more than a little collecting of Coke merchandise... LOL

Very cool though....

[blown motor]

Besides doing my stained glass hobby creating my Custom Flamed Headlights and Lighted Shadow box/picture frames of Angels, Animals, Nature Scenes I have also over the last 5 years been developing myself on a spiritual level. I have been working towards developing and enhancing some gifts I learned I had or that came to me after consecutively going through 3 major losses in my family within a year and a half. My home had and still has a great amount of paranormal since the passing of my family members (everything I feel here is in a good way). I have even captured a few things on film, mostly orbs but we have seen many things with our own eyes.

Anyhow, I realize that many people have varying and different beliefs and respect this fully but for myself...I can say that I no longer ride the fence on this. Being a very strong empath one of the gifts I have, I wound up performing a spirit release at a local hotel in Buffalo NY. I was actually invited by my sisters car club to join in on a ghost hunt with a paranormal group at this hotel which I originally declined several times but later decided to go. To clarify further it was not my intention in going there to do this spirit release, I was simply invited as a guest it was more a result of what I felt inside myself when I toured the 17th floor with the group and the sadness for the trapped spirit that was in that room. Anyhow, I can not explain easily here what changed my mind on going to this because it involves something that came to me in a dream state or meditative state as some may call it to join this tour and I did not even realize why or my purpose at that time. Anyhow, everything being as dark as it was on this floor because it had been closed off to the public for many years I still managed to see movement at the end of the hall way after very particular prayers were said by me and then managed to snap off two pics before my camera battery which was fully charged went dead. Anyone on the tour could bring cameras but no flashes were advised because the tour guides explained that any paranormal will show it's own illumination if it's there and present.

So I will share with you the two pics of the release . The best way to view them is to open them in a program such as windows photo viewer which allows you to zoom in closer. You will see in the first pic the white light coming in through the ceiling of that floor and in the 2nd pic  the white ligh take on the form of a hand complete with thumb and it is grasping what looks very much the shape of a person (sitting with knees bent tucked underneath them) and the white light is pulling them out a window. This was a spirit of a young girl who was trapped since the 1920's close to 100 years after what they said was a suicide but had never fully proven. The sadness before these pics was overwhelming and after the photos were taken by me I can not explain in words how that sadness completely left my body and relief took it's place. Many signs and synchronicities came to me the very next day and I now know the reason I was meant to go on that tour and I also feel it was part of my development as well to be there in that place and at that time. 

That's very cool @spiritbird65 I believe that so many people are not open to the spiritual element of our existence. It's something that I have become more in tune with since my mother passed six and half years ago. Continues success with your journey.

[Michael_B767_ATP]

Hi Everyone,

My other hobby, a Boeing 737NG flight simulator: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqTiCN9u_pvyU9NTqhtgJ9w

Mike

[Roadman]

Hi Everyone,

My other hobby, a Boeing 737NG flight simulator: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqTiCN9u_pvyU9NTqhtgJ9w

Mike

                 Thats awesome  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[spiritbird65]

Besides doing my stained glass hobby creating my Custom Flamed Headlights and Lighted Shadow box/picture frames of Angels, Animals, Nature Scenes I have also over the last 5 years been developing myself on a spiritual level. I have been working towards developing and enhancing some gifts I learned I had or that came to me after consecutively going through 3 major losses in my family within a year and a half. My home had and still has a great amount of paranormal since the passing of my family members (everything I feel here is in a good way). I have even captured a few things on film, mostly orbs but we have seen many things with our own eyes.

Anyhow, I realize that many people have varying and different beliefs and respect this fully but for myself...I can say that I no longer ride the fence on this. Being a very strong empath one of the gifts I have, I wound up performing a spirit release at a local hotel in Buffalo NY. I was actually invited by my sisters car club to join in on a ghost hunt with a paranormal group at this hotel which I originally declined several times but later decided to go. To clarify further it was not my intention in going there to do this spirit release, I was simply invited as a guest it was more a result of what I felt inside myself when I toured the 17th floor with the group and the sadness for the trapped spirit that was in that room. Anyhow, I can not explain easily here what changed my mind on going to this because it involves something that came to me in a dream state or meditative state as some may call it to join this tour and I did not even realize why or my purpose at that time. Anyhow, everything being as dark as it was on this floor because it had been closed off to the public for many years I still managed to see movement at the end of the hall way after very particular prayers were said by me and then managed to snap off two pics before my camera battery which was fully charged went dead. Anyone on the tour could bring cameras but no flashes were advised because the tour guides explained that any paranormal will show it's own illumination if it's there and present.

So I will share with you the two pics of the release . The best way to view them is to open them in a program such as windows photo viewer which allows you to zoom in closer. You will see in the first pic the white light coming in through the ceiling of that floor and in the 2nd pic  the white ligh take on the form of a hand complete with thumb and it is grasping what looks very much the shape of a person (sitting with knees bent tucked underneath them) and the white light is pulling them out a window. This was a spirit of a young girl who was trapped since the 1920's close to 100 years after what they said was a suicide but had never fully proven. The sadness before these pics was overwhelming and after the photos were taken by me I can not explain in words how that sadness completely left my body and relief took it's place. Many signs and synchronicities came to me the very next day and I now know the reason I was meant to go on that tour and I also feel it was part of my development as well to be there in that place and at that time. 

That's very cool @spiritbird65 I believe that so many people are not open to the spiritual element of our existence. It's something that I have become more in tune with since my mother passed six and half years ago. Continues success with your journey.

Would not mind staying in touch @blown motor. Sometimes it is nice to find others who have spiritual gifts or had experiences just to tap into for knowledge and growth, or simply to share what they've been through and have developed so far. If you are ok with that. 

[CudaMoparRay]

One of my other hobbies is collecting magic lantern slides particularly of Edward Vischer hand drawings/paintings of California missions, history and landscape.

[Timbbuc2]

Very impressive list of hobbies and talents by all. I love guns, target practice, use to hunt but its tough now as much traveling I do. My baby is a 50 cal Dessert Eagle along with my Ak-47 and AR-15, a Christmas  Present from my wife. I love to powder coat in my spare time and experiment with the process. In my other spare time is working on my Challenger, which takes up most of my time when I am at home. But the best thing that happened to me was my 10 month old Grand daughter. So I spend a  lot of time on  whats-app video chat with her. I know she is only 10 months but I bought her a 1989 Honda 50cc Mini-Trail that I am going to restore. It had not ran in over 20years but I took care of that. Runs like a clock
In 2007 the company I worked for shut down for the idea of cheap labor in Central America, so that year I was selling motorcycle parts on ebay. I would buy wrecked bikes and sell off the good parts, done pretty good. So I have 3 bikes, one 1984 Honda Goldwing 1200, another 84 Goldwing that I restored from the ground up and a 1978 1000 Goldwing with a 1200 motor.(Bobber) I like to tinker with things. My wife says I have too many projects and need to down size, I think she is correct.