What do you Enjoy doing

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  • stevenl
    stevenl Member Posts: 587
    #42
    Hondo said:

    Hi Joel

    I remember doing Birds as a leader in the Boy Scout, I use to love it, just teaching the Kids about the things God created and how nature all works together was a great enjoyment. You need to make a trip to Honduras, we have some very colorful birds there, God can really get creative when it comes to birds.

    Hobbies
    Hi Hondo,

    Great post. I like John (Skiffin), love fishing. As they say " A bad day fishing is better than a great day at work. I also like restoring cars and boats when I have the time and I am not fishin.

    Best,
    Steve
  • Greg53
    Greg53 Member Posts: 849
    #43
    stevenl said:

    Hobbies
    Hi Hondo,

    Great post. I like John (Skiffin), love fishing. As they say " A bad day fishing is better than a great day at work. I also like restoring cars and boats when I have the time and I am not fishin.

    Best,
    Steve

    Hey Hondo
    Hondo,

    Been out of the loop for awhile and when I get back, a cool thread like this is here.

    I guess it's kinda obvious what my #1 interest is: ice dancing (ok, nothing against ice dancing, that's a joke). That's followed by hiking and bird watching. Like others, my bird watching is an offshoot of my first two. I usually see more birds when I'm out on a boat or hiking so I figure I ought to know the names of what I'm looking at.

    During my recovery I've found what has turned into my Number Uno interest. I love volunteering now. I've worked for a couple different groups, my favorite combining my love of dogs and volunteering. I work at a local no-kill stray dog rescue place a couple days a week.

    Hope everything is going well for you Hondo!

    Greg
  • Greg53
    Greg53 Member Posts: 849
    #44
    fisrpotpe said:

    Kind of
    What kind of stuff do you do in your shop?

    fisrpotpe
    fisrpotpe,

    I'm assuming that's a tat? Cool one!! Still looking for one to get when I hit 1 year out. Have to add that one to my list of possibilites for this April. Who knows, I could become the illustrated man with all the ones I like.

    Greg
  • adventurebob
    adventurebob Member Posts: 691
    #45
    Life
    What a nice question that get's me thinking about how blessed I am. In my healthier life I enjoyed backpacking and hiking, rock-climbing and river-rafting. I've worked as an outdoor guide specializing in mental health issues and have been most passionate about getting people outside to let God and nature heal them. As I haven't been able to physically do those things for some time now I have found that I enjoy just walking and listening to music the most. I prefer a dirt trail or the beach over a road but make do with whatever is handy. I'm also a big reader. Like others here I find so much peace and love and direction from the Bible and try to spend an hour or so a day in it. I like a good brainless action adventure as well and of course any outdoor magazine gets me pretty excited for new adventures. Diet and nutrition has been a passion of mine for a long time now and I read up on that constantly. As cancer and especially treatment has slowed me up I find I like sitting and doing nothing too. It's especially nice to do with someone else. No need to talk but that can be nice also. Oh yeah, eating. Taste buds and saliva are coming back slowly and I enjoy finding foods that taste good and nourish me.
    Thanks for this post Hondo. As I write I realize how much joy is in my life.

    Bob
  • meinken
    meinken Member Posts: 38
    #46
    Spring Training Baseball
    I'm a huge baseball fan and have been to Florida for spring training games many times. Couldn't get out there last year because of the NPC and radiation. This year, I'm flying out to Phoenix for Cactus League games, for the first time. Oh and the hotel has a casino. I get to do two of my passions in a single trip.
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #47
    meinken said:

    Spring Training Baseball
    I'm a huge baseball fan and have been to Florida for spring training games many times. Couldn't get out there last year because of the NPC and radiation. This year, I'm flying out to Phoenix for Cactus League games, for the first time. Oh and the hotel has a casino. I get to do two of my passions in a single trip.

    I am so upset right now!
    I got an email that the place where I take my belly dance class and yoga is closing! This seriously sucks.
  • rozaroo
    rozaroo Member Posts: 665
    #48
    sweetblood22 said:

    I am so upset right now!
    I got an email that the place where I take my belly dance class and yoga is closing! This seriously sucks.

    Sweet!
    That truly suck's! I know how much you enjoyed it. I am so sorry!
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #49
    rozaroo said:

    Sweet!
    That truly suck's! I know how much you enjoyed it. I am so sorry!

    I know. It totally sucks.
    I know. It totally sucks. It took me a few years to find that one belly dance instructor. I'm hoping that she will find a new spot in the same town that she can hold class in. She lives in Catawissa which is pretty far away from me. Took me a half hour to get to Bloomsburg and she is past there.
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #50
    Hondo said:

    John

    I like that brother John stuff, I hope we will not need the cushions but might need a place for my Seeing Eye wife who is afraid to let me do anything by my self anymore.

    Thanks John this means more to me then you will ever know my friend
    Hondo

    Fishing
    I'm sure we can figure something out....
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #51
    sweetblood22 said:

    I know. It totally sucks.
    I know. It totally sucks. It took me a few years to find that one belly dance instructor. I'm hoping that she will find a new spot in the same town that she can hold class in. She lives in Catawissa which is pretty far away from me. Took me a half hour to get to Bloomsburg and she is past there.

    Hi Sweet
    I saw some Morocco belly dancing when I was in Afraid, I was told the dance actually told a story, no one told me what the story was aout but it was cool watching. Hope you find a place to keep doing what you love to do.

    Hondo
  • GraceLibby
    GraceLibby Member Posts: 88
    #52
    Awesome thread!
    This thread has been fascinating to read and rather inspirational. This year, I'm making my goal to get in the great outdoors more often. We live in the PNW and I have no reason why we shouldn't be out in nature more often.

    My hobby - I make quilts. I think just last year, I made at least 10 baby quilts, including the one shown as my photo. Unfortunately I lost all interest in sewing while going through treatment. My SIL is due in March and I just got off my rear-end and started hers. I forgot how much I missed sewing and am glad I picked it up again.

    Thanks for sharing everyone!
  • Army_Guy
    Army_Guy Member Posts: 53
    #53
    What I enjoy...
    I enjoy being alive every day. Didn't have as much appreciation for life before this C-thing as I now do.

    I enjoy being involved in my community and I'm active in community affairs (have been for years) and now I volunteer time to the American Cancer Society. I enjoy being active and although I am past the retirement age, I still work (my 3rd career). I'm grateful that I have a resilient body that has allowed me to recover from the horrendous 56 radiation treatments (yup....radiation 2x a day for 28 days! YUK) and continue to be an active person. And lastly I enjoy being around my wife. We have been married for over 25 years (2nd time for both of us) and grew extremely close during my treatment last summer.

    I was very happy to see that SO many of us still enjoy things because there were times during treatment when I was convinced that I would never enjoy anything again.

    Army_Guy
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #54
    Army_Guy said:

    What I enjoy...
    I enjoy being alive every day. Didn't have as much appreciation for life before this C-thing as I now do.

    I enjoy being involved in my community and I'm active in community affairs (have been for years) and now I volunteer time to the American Cancer Society. I enjoy being active and although I am past the retirement age, I still work (my 3rd career). I'm grateful that I have a resilient body that has allowed me to recover from the horrendous 56 radiation treatments (yup....radiation 2x a day for 28 days! YUK) and continue to be an active person. And lastly I enjoy being around my wife. We have been married for over 25 years (2nd time for both of us) and grew extremely close during my treatment last summer.

    I was very happy to see that SO many of us still enjoy things because there were times during treatment when I was convinced that I would never enjoy anything again.

    Army_Guy

    Hi Army-guy
    I could not agree more, there was a time when I too did not think I would ever enjoy anything again. Keeping active if a key to staying alive for anyone especially for survivors .

    Take care
    Hondo
  • BrianKrashpad
    BrianKrashpad Member Posts: 188
    #55
    What I like to do?
    Check my avatar, that's me! I've played guitar since I was a kid, and have played various instruments, mainly guitar and bass, but more recently also a little mandolin, in various bands and at my last 2 churches.

    I've played in about 14 or 15 rock bands, for the past 21 years or so doing almost exclusively original songs, but starting out around 1980 or so in a succession of "party bands" that played covers, mainly at private parties.

    I have had a TON of fun. Not made very much money, but written songs, played in club and other public shows (county fair, local town bandstand, etc.), done DIY records, seen myself reported on in the local media (newspapers,interviewed on local radio), heard my bands' songs on local music radio shows, won an award for the "best local punk band" from a local "newsmonthly" mag, and even played bass in the band of a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the late great Bo Diddley.

    Any time I get down I can just pick up a guitar and make the blues go away. Don't even need electricity.

    Also, I've written about music for a succession of local and regional magazines, and currently write a column for a quarterly local magazine. The column actually has its own name, "Gate Crashing" (my nickname is "Krash," shortened from my punk rock stage name of Brian Krashpad), a photo byline (a first!), and for which I actually even get paid (in money!)

    Good times!
  • BrianKrashpad
    BrianKrashpad Member Posts: 188
    #56
    BrianKrashpad said:

    What I like to do?
    Check my avatar, that's me! I've played guitar since I was a kid, and have played various instruments, mainly guitar and bass, but more recently also a little mandolin, in various bands and at my last 2 churches.

    I've played in about 14 or 15 rock bands, for the past 21 years or so doing almost exclusively original songs, but starting out around 1980 or so in a succession of "party bands" that played covers, mainly at private parties.

    I have had a TON of fun. Not made very much money, but written songs, played in club and other public shows (county fair, local town bandstand, etc.), done DIY records, seen myself reported on in the local media (newspapers,interviewed on local radio), heard my bands' songs on local music radio shows, won an award for the "best local punk band" from a local "newsmonthly" mag, and even played bass in the band of a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the late great Bo Diddley.

    Any time I get down I can just pick up a guitar and make the blues go away. Don't even need electricity.

    Also, I've written about music for a succession of local and regional magazines, and currently write a column for a quarterly local magazine. The column actually has its own name, "Gate Crashing" (my nickname is "Krash," shortened from my punk rock stage name of Brian Krashpad), a photo byline (a first!), and for which I actually even get paid (in money!)

    Good times!

    In my usual fashion...
    I appear to have killed this thread.

    Anyone else?

    Bueller?
  • Hondo
    Hondo Member Posts: 6,636 Member
    #57
    BrianKrashpad said:

    In my usual fashion...
    I appear to have killed this thread.

    Anyone else?

    Bueller?

    G’day Brian
    Nothing dies here its like age jets better with time. You are like my brother he can pick up a Guitar with two strings and play better then most people with 6 or 12 strings guitar. Poor me I tried all my life to play but just can’t get it, but I do love at night sometimes stunning the strings and playing the little that I can.

    Take care my friend
    Hondo
  • sweetblood22
    sweetblood22 Member Posts: 3,228
    #58
    BrianKrashpad said:

    In my usual fashion...
    I appear to have killed this thread.

    Anyone else?

    Bueller?

    Anyone? Anyone??
    Lol. I love that movie. Your posts always entertain me, Brian. I like your sense of humor.
  • matthewcplourde
    matthewcplourde Member Posts: 32
    #59
    Writing!
    Just need to figure out how to make a career out of it...
  • luv4lacrosse
    luv4lacrosse Member Posts: 1,410 Member
    #60
    WHAT I LOVE DOING
    What I love most is weightlifting. I made 2 visits to the gym this week and by 7:30 last night, my wife told me to go to bed as I feel asleep watching a hockey game on TV. I did not lift any hard weight at all. Started out like a beginner.

    I slept 13 hours and did not get to work until almost 11 am. At this rate, it will be two years before I can do anything meaningfull in the gym.

    Depressing!!!

    Mike
  • Skiffin16
    Skiffin16 Member Posts: 8,305 Member
    #61
    luv4lacrosse said:

    WHAT I LOVE DOING
    What I love most is weightlifting. I made 2 visits to the gym this week and by 7:30 last night, my wife told me to go to bed as I feel asleep watching a hockey game on TV. I did not lift any hard weight at all. Started out like a beginner.

    I slept 13 hours and did not get to work until almost 11 am. At this rate, it will be two years before I can do anything meaningfull in the gym.

    Depressing!!!

    Mike

    Building Up Endurance
    You should know as well as anyone...

    Usually, especially getting back into it, your endurance will more than likley come back fairly fast...that is if your body is ready. If not, it'll let you know....

    Rest when your body tells you, build when you feel good....

    Best,
    John

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