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

[N F C]

I’ll take 2 to go, please! Have loved them since before most folks knew what they were!

Looks to me like the one dog you have takes up a fair share of space B

 

[Blooie]

Looks to me like the one dog you have takes up a fair share of space B

<sigh>. I know, I know.....but I saw some at an exhibition show oh, probably about 1979 or so, (I might have the year wrong, but I do remember that they weren’t accepted into the Miscellaneous Class in the AKC yet) and they were so perky. All 3 of them watched their owner and were totally prepared to turn themselves inside out if she even whispered the command. Folks think Goldens and Border Collies are eager to please? I’d never seen anything like these little show offs! I LOVE your hobby!

 

[Celeste Cannon]

Like many others here, I love taking photos! I’ve been interested in photography since I was around 11 or so and I got my Nikon d3200 when I was 12. I love submitting my photos into competitions, most of them student competitions because I’m only 15. I take lots of pics of my chickens and I take my camera with me everywhere.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

My hobby is breeding and showing Portuguese Water Dogs. My husband and I have been breeding for over 20 years.

Hi J! U know I love them!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I love all these hobbies!

So I LOVE to bake. I actually have some homemade croissants going in the oven right now! I really like to bake French stuff, I went to France last October and I have been inspired! (Thus the croissants) I had this dessert called “ispahan” when i was there and then i recreated it at home (there’s also a strawberry tart)View attachment 1582430

I also make really good French macarons, it took me quite a bit of time to perfect those, super fun to play with flavors, so far i have tried lavender and honey, strawberry, chocolate, chocolate peanut butter, and rose water.View attachment 1582434

I don’t have any good pictures of them all put together currently, I guess i’ll Just have to make them again. I enjoy making cakes but I only make those for occasions, the last cake I made was a lemon chiffon cake, lemon cake, lemon curd filling, lemon Italian meringue buttercream!

Okay, I have to tell you about my obsession with chocolate. Over the summer I took a class at the institute of culinary education in NYC, on bean to bar chocolate. We made chocolate from a bean and I went home with ten bars of good quality chocolate. So now I am saving up my money to buy a chocolate melanger (for crushing the cocoa beans), If anyone else is interested in this topic I reccomend the book Bean to Bar chocolate by Megan Giller, she helped teach ther chocolate class!

Here are some more pics of my baking:

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Wow I think u just killed my diet! Instant hunger pangggg
Impressive. And the cocoa bean extraction sounds neat too

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Like many others here, I love taking photos! I’ve been interested in photography since I was around 11 or so and I got my Nikon d3200 when I was 12. I love submitting my photos into competitions, most of them student competitions because I’m only 15. I take lots of pics of my chickens and I take my camera with me everywhere.

Impressive!!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

That's stunning Sally

Hope you'll show us the coffee soap (love me some coffee...in any form)!

Hazelnut Java and Creamy Lilac. I also made more honeysuckle but forgot the pic. Nothing special as both those were for the hen soaps so I made those and a single loaf of each while I had the mess going on.

Sorry my cell sucks

 

[fisherlady]

So my hobby is obvious given my screen name. I have loved fishing since I was a kid, from stream fishing for trout to pond fishing for blue gills and chasing bigger fish as I got older. Husband and I have gotten boats of many types and sizes over the past 16 years and our latest is finally big enough to share trips with multiple other people at a time. We camp every weekend and a couple of vacation weeks near the shores of lake Erie where we chase walleye, we fish the lower Potomac river and Chesapeake bay a couple times a year when visiting family and friends and the Atlantic seaboard (near shore so far, no overnight offshore trips yet) once or twice a year when visiting boating friends further south.
Best thing about the hobby hasn't been the 'free' fish (scaredy how fast expenses can add up! LOL).... it has been the time spent with friends and family while chasing them! With our latest boat we have expanded our trips to include folks from a disabled veterans group we have been involved in. They usually stream fish but many expressed interest in boating so we have been taking them out for walleye 2 at a time. I think 22 lake erie trips in the last couple of years. Most rewarding trips wehave ever done, hands down!
A few pictures from our adventures...

 

[Blooie]

And people visualize folks who raise chickens as some caricature of farmers....sort of like Hee Haw meets urban chicken coop. But just look at the variety of hobbies here....look at the talent and amazing photos here! We are all amazing!!!

 

[CHICKEN CAPTAIN]

Official BYC Contest
"WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY?"
This contest is brought to you by our BYC Sponsors
(click to view & support them)

This is a RANDOM Winner Contest...
Post up to 3 of your Hobbies and your name will be entered up to 3 times for the final drawing for a chance to win 1 of 5 (that's right, FIVE)
2019 BYC Calendars! ​

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The rules are simple:​

All entries must be submitted as replies to this thread,

Only 3 Hobby Entries per member, PLEASE NUMBER YOUR ENTRIES!
Please add a short description with your IMAGES IN YOUR POSTS, examples....​

• What is is that you love about this hobby?

• When do you do the Hobby?

• What sacrifices do you make to be able to practice your hobby?

• Are you an amateur? An adept? An expert?

• Are you lucky enough that this hobby is part of your job/income?

These are just examples of how to create your post, you don´t have to talk about all of them and you can add other things you want, those are just a few guidelines in case you don´t know how to make your post!

SO ENTER UP TO 3 HOBBIES
for a chance to win 1 of 5 (that's right, FIVE)
2019 BYC Calendars!
We will use a random number generator to select our winners for this Contest.​

Prizes:
FIVE winning members will be awarded a
beautiful 2019 BYC Chicken Calendar!​

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We will be accepting entries until Friday the 30th of November

If you would like a calendar, without entering the contest, please see how to purchase one HERE



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I will start with one of my own hobbies! ​

My Hobby #1

We all know chicken math right? Yep, been there done that, well I moved on to goat math, that’s right my love for Nigerian dwarf goats and their milk drove my math skills up to an advanced class!
I enjoy my goats so much, they are almost like dogs, but less work.

I began milking after our first stressful kidding, everything went well it was the newbie thing and I stressed myself out with the unknown! It wasn’t long after I fell in love with these little kids as well as the goat milk.

I had way too much milk, I was giving it away and even to people to feed to their meat chickens to help fatten them up quicker! I learned how to make wonderful chocolate pudding pies, cajeta a fantastic mexian carmel, fudge is always amazing, yogurt is delish too! I made a few cheeses and that really started to use the milk quickly, and just as quick I realized I am no cheesemaker! Just wasn’t for me, so I thought,“well I can try soap”. And I did!

Goat Milk soap is amazing soap! I had never used goat milk soap before and it was such a difference I couldn’t believe it! So I started to research and take notes. We all know how I can take some notes!  Anyway, I bought book after book, whodathunk I would learn chemistry in the process! I educated myself on healthy skin and on and on….

I started to get addicted to making soap so I gave a few bars away and quickly they had asked for more and more, and then their friends and family wanted to try it as well, and that’s how and why I started Lil Swatara Soap LLC. It is now a business and with the holidays quickly coming up I am putting way too many hours into making and packing soap but it is quickly paying off!

In fact, I am going to GIVE AWAY 8 BARS OF my Goat milk SOAP! That’s right, we will draw an extra 8 numbers after the calendars and I will send out soap to each of those 8 winning number draws!

GET THOSE HOBBIES POSTED!
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