Ended Official BYC Mini Contest - "WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY?"

[Granny Hatchet]

I'n not the best baker in the world, but I do bake. I found that making no-knead turbo bread in a 3qt dutch oven is the easiest and most reliable. Only 4 ingredients so it's impossible to mess up and doesn't take days of prep.

Is this you in the video ?

 

[CapricornFarm]

your terrible! was this made today? is it raisin? Mom always brings me a loaf of raisin bread home from green dragon!

Now I need to go make some scrambled eggs, I am starved, and make some soap on this dreary rainy day.

oh..... I have a lady in Alaska with a cute shop, mostly fowl stuffs, and I need to make more Hen and chick soaps for there, I only had one mold now the others finally arrived! these were the carrot soaps I made for her, the others are a rustic sandalwood type scent, shaped horses bears etc. fun stuff today! View attachment 1582100

Lovely! I think hubby threw out my soap making stuff during a move.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Seems to me you did some nice drawings Granny.

17 yrs ago. LOLOL If I tried now they would be abstract the way my hands shake !

 

[BantyChooks]

Banty, I have always loved your pictures and if one of us ever get rich this has always been my favorite ! That would go right over my fireplace mantle

If I get rich, you can have as many prints as you want, lol! I looked into getting some made... but it's unreal how expensive even a small one is.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

If I get rich, you can have as many prints as you want, lol! I looked into getting some made... but it's unreal how expensive even a small one is.

I need it kinda big for the mantle . Like 18x24. Does that change the quality of the picture making it that big ??

 

[BantyChooks]

I need it kinda big for the mantle . Like 18x24. Does that change the quality of the picture making it that big ??

I don't think so, my pictures are large... sadly, it's well over a hundred dollars, plus shipping, for something even close for that size.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I don't think so, my pictures are large... sadly, it's well over a hundred dollars, plus shipping, for something even close for that size.

wow, Well, its nice to know what to aim for . One day...

 

[Blooie]

My third hobby is writing. When I was a kid my stepdad (who later adopted me - MUCH later, I was 36) was larger than life, figuratively and literally. I'd never seen a man who stood 6'4 before. I was just a little girl and I stuttered, badly. I'd get so frustrated and the more upset I got the worse it got. Then one day this gentle giant, still almost a stranger to me in a lot of ways, told me that if something was important enough for me to want to say, then it was important enough that he wanted to know and understand. So he suggested that I write it down. He promised me that if I did that, he'd read every word. And he did. We'd talk about what I'd written, but because the thoughts had already gone from my mind to his "in advance", it was easier for me to get through the sentences that it took to have a conversation. Gradually, year by year, the stuttering diminished. I still do it from time to time when I get overexcited or nervous, as @N F C probably noticed, but it didn't take too long in her company to become comfortable enough to just let a few stutters slip by.

I wrote an article which was published in a major magazine, but I think back on it now and it seemed too contrived - like I was trying too hard to impress. Mostly I write stories...stories of my family, of funny or sad events, and I keep them in a treasure box. Someday my kids, when they go through those boxes, will find stories of things they did when they were little, or things their mom did when she was little. For many years I wrote a political column for our local newspaper. I'm very proud to say that Senator Mike Enzi from Wyoming read them religiously, and he used three of them on the floor of the US Senate during debates. They are entered in the official US Congressional Record. I have received several hand written letters from the Senator after a couple of my columns struck a note with him. A few years ago there was a town hall and I attended. David Peck, our newspaper owner/editor, introduced me to the Senator, who promptly gave me a big hug and said, "My HERO!" I teased him back and told him I was going to get little business cards printed up that said, "Speechwriter for Senator Mike Enzi.

I am most of the way through writing my first novel. It's going slowly since our Kendra was born.....I don't have as much free time as I once did. But when it's finished I already have a novelist with many books to her credit, who wants to read it and help me with it. In the meantime I write to entertain, and use words like many of you use photos to save memories.

How about that? A stuttering young girl who dropped out of school at 16 as a junior in high school writing both for a newspaper and having her columns entered in such an esteemed official government publication. I've made friends through words. Is there anything better?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

Thats pretty awesome Blooie . Your story of the autistic blanket broke my heart. I cant imagine the pain .

 

[Chick-N-Daddy]

Is this you in the video ?

Oh, jeeze, no. I generally don't go on video. You might see me from time to time on one of my live chicken cams, but that's about it.
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