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

[N F C]

That's so cool! Hubby Ken is a Shriner, and the Shrine club he is in used to Square Dance in Parades....on Allis Chalmers antique tractors! Yep, the guys all wore bright colored green shirts, bib overalls, and red bandanas around their necks, and drive those old tractors, dancing in formations. It was something to see! 6 tractors doing alamand rights and lefts, do-se-dos...the whole bit. They were a huge hit!

That would have been fun to see! You don't by chance of a vid of it, do you B?

 

[andreanar]

I knit and crochet. But my favorite hobby is fossil hunting. In nice weather, I can often be found roaming dry creek beds with my bucket and small strainer. Where I live , we have tons of fossils.

 

[N F C]

I knit and crochet. But my favorite hobby is fossil hunting. In nice weather, I can often be found roaming dry creek beds with my bucket and small strainer. Where I live , we have tons of fossils.
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So cool!

 

[CCUK]

That's so cool! Hubby Ken is a Shriner, and the Shrine club he is in used to Square Dance in Parades....on Allis Chalmers antique tractors! Yep, the guys all wore bright colored green shirts, bib overalls, and red bandanas around their necks, and drive those old tractors, dancing in formations. It was something to see! 6 tractors doing alamand rights and lefts, do-se-dos...the whole bit. They were a huge hit!

Every year the tractor club Im a member of have a working weekend. Two years ago they had 10 fordson triple d doe tractors. Quite a rarity. So they put a little bit of a show on! Sorry about the sound, youtube and copyright or something!

 

[Blooie]

That would have been fun to see! You don't by chance of a vid of it, do you B?

I don't but I bet if I dug I could find a photo!

 

[N F C]

Every year the tractor club Im a member of have a working weekend. Two years ago they had 10 fordson triple d doe tractors. Quite a rarity. So they put a little bit of a show on! Sorry about the sound, youtube and copyright or something!

Your club members must have a great time together!

I don't but I bet if I dug I could find a photo!

A picture works!

 

[CCUK]

Your club members must have a great time together!



A picture works!

It's a good excuse for everyone to get their relics out, have a few beers and a bbq! It's great for everyone to meet up.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

omg!!! that's AMAZING SOAP!!!!!!!!!!
you have literally taken my breath away!

Lol thanks. This is a simple Almond Soap I am working on. I had created designs and sent to UK to have soap stamps made out of them. I only had created 2 types to start to see how I like them. Omg the smell is making me hungry for almond cookies!! I'll try to check back in later, busy day here again.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Okay, that soap sounds amazing. I guess I'll have to throw my hat into the ring, too.

My number one hobby (outside of the chickens, of course) is birding. I've loved birds as long as I can remember, even before we started with the chickens, so birding is just a further extension of my passion for all things avian. So, basically, I go out in nature somewhere and just sit quietly for hours until a bird comes to me. Then, it's a battle to see the bird clearly and completely enough to get a positive ID without moving around so much that it flies off. Sounds super fun, right? (No, but really, it is quite peaceful and relaxing. )

Our woods here is one of my favorite places to go birding because it gives me the opportunity to see how it's doing out there. The woods is mid-succession, maybe even slightly early succession at the understory level, because my grandparents ran hogs through there decades ago, but the surrounding area was more recently (you know, only 15-20 years ago) farmed for crops and is in the earlier, grass-forb to shrubby-seedling stage of succession. That kind of texture isn't necessarily a bad thing for species. I keep a 'life list' of bird species I spot and more than 80 species on that list were spotted here, mostly where the woods meets that recovering cropland.

Unfortunately, I don't have a camera with a long enough lens to do any good bird photography while I'm at it. We do have bird feeders on the back deck (away from where the chickens could get near them), though, where I occasionally take pictures. Here is a really shadowy but still somewhat adorable Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) at one of the feeders:

A Northern Cardinal male (Cardinalis cardinalis) on a branch outside the living room window:

And a panorama of the woods during early May this year. This was around the time I spotted an American Woodcock (Scolopax minor) in this area. He did a lot of displaying those evenings, but I never was able to catch him in the act. Fingers crossed for next spring! You can see where the woods just sort of stops and the early succession shrubs begin in the background, here:

I hope I didn't ramble too much! I love seeing what others do outside of chickening.

 

[Fluffy&Cutie]

i am amazed by all your talents!!!!
ONE of my hobbies is gardening/garden design. 7 years ago we purchased a home with a big dead backyard. Each season i pick an area and try to make it beautiful. I start by sitting in the area and let the space speak to me...that is why it takes so long! The birds, butterflies, and rocks have a lot to say. I love connecting to nature and the space of Earth I inhabit. It's a dance I do with the spirit Earth. That's my favorite part of this hobby. I "garden" whenever I can, but, usually it is when I have larger chunks of time. Spring break and Summer is when I do the fingers in the dirt part and the rest of the year I do the researching, planning, and building. I am an amateur, so I have a lot of research to find the right plants to grow in my area. I have been having more success lately and it has given me courage to continue. My artistic garden style is over grown natural, where as my husband's style is "pavers". In the end he loves what i do and how I change the energy of our backyard. It's my piece of heaven. The photo I will put is of the new butterfly garden and path to the veggie garden. I try to use as much recycled materials as I can find. That is important to me. The rocks are gifts from the Earth. Over the past 7 years they have "floated" up to the backyard soil. I just collected them and made them into the path. Weirdly...since the path was completed last year, no more rocks have surfaced.
i don't have pictures (i ll have to take later) but i have also created 3 sitting nooks, a secret garden, & a child's nook.

i am amazed by all your talents!!!!
ONE of my hobbies is gardening/garden design. 7 years ago we purchased a home with a big dead backyard. Each season i pick an area and try to make it beautiful. I start by sitting in the area and let the space speak to me...that is why it takes so long! The birds, butterflies, and rocks have a lot to say. I love connecting to nature and the space of Earth I inhabit. It's a dance I do with the spirit Earth. That's my favorite part of this hobby. I "garden" whenever I can, but, usually it is when I have larger chunks of time. Spring break and Summer is when I do the fingers in the dirt part and the rest of the year I do the researching, planning, and building. I am an amateur, so I have a lot of research to find the right plants to grow in my area. I have been having more success lately and it has given me courage to continue. My artistic garden style is over grown natural, where as my husband's style is "pavers". In the end he loves what i do and how I change the energy of our backyard. It's my piece of heaven. The photo I will put is of the new butterfly garden and path to the veggie garden. I try to use as much recycled materials as I can find. That is important to me. The rocks are gifts from the Earth. Over the past 7 years they have "floated" up to the backyard soil. I just collected them and made them into the path. Weirdly...since the path was completed last year, no more rocks have surfaced.
i don't have pictures (i ll have to take later) but i have also created 3 sitting nooks, a secret garden, & a child's nook.

Trying to find some pics for you. Here s some of my backyard sumer crop. I swear I have more...who knows where they are saved!

And the above are recycled "trash"(found broken in the street) I update for the chickens. The blue chair has herbs for chicken respiratory issues and the brown chair has herbs for egg laying! I am really proud of them.