It used to be motorcycle riding. Over the past few years I found I enjoy just hanging out with the critters at home. Two Beagles, a Parrot and just recently adopted by Charlie the cat.

And shooting, primarily pistol. I enjoy going to the indoor range, but my favorite is an open shoot day held about 45 minutes away that only happens a few times a year. Plate racks, dueling trees, vehicles to shoot in to, out of, around etc.

Getting my wife back in to shooting (she shot trap with her Dad as a kid) and she loves the open shoot event as well. I really enjoy shooting with her, so that may well be #1.

There is a long bridge down in Pensacola. Bear with me for a second. You need the back story.

Once, a few years back, I was going through some stuff. In the matter of a week I'd been involved in something awful at work and one of my former trainees and best friends had been murdered on the job. After the funeral, a better friend than I deserve and I rode our bikes 8 hours down to his father's place in Pensacola. We spent the next day watching the sun come up on the beach, drinking beers, and crawling around an old fort. We were supposed to meet his father for dinner and it was getting late. We hit that bridge on our bikes just as the sun was going down.

Rolling across that long span across Pensacola Bay at speed that might draw displeasure from any local LE who saw it with the sunset reflecting off the water all around us was the first time I'd felt normal in weeks. It is one of my favorite memories and I have no words to express just how thankful I am to have a friend that knew I needed someone to pull me out of the place I was falling into.

Motorcycling in general is my stress relief. To this day, nothing can compare with riding the coastal highways. I make time every year to take a week and ride my bike down to the coast to decompress. I'm incredibly thankful that I have a wife who is understanding enough to give me that time to myself. I don't go raise hell or chase tail. I just go and pitch a tent and watch the sun go up and down. If I have a friend with me we can swap stories. If I don't, I just listen to the waves.

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Fly fishing with my dog.

What pound test line do you need to cast your dog?

If it's 50° or above, riding my motorcycle. Nowhere in particular, just find a road I haven't been on yet and see where it goes.

If it's colder, or otherwise non-riding weather, playing in my shop. I really enjoy building something useful out of whatever I have laying around in my jun...uh..."spare inventory" pile.

This morning I'm going to start on building a scissors hoist for my dump trailer. There will be much noise, smoke, fire and grinding dust in the shop for the next couple of days.

I can spend hours in my garage just fixing things that broke or don't work any more.

Hard to pick a "favorite", but among the activities I enjoy are choral singing, handbell ringing, photography (on trips/tours), traveling, and pistol shooting (although I don't do a lot of that any more). I spend a lot of time doing genealogy on the web.

flashguy

Long drives through the city at night, with appropriate tuneage, of course.



I'm sad that I was born a few years too late to enjoy cruising.

Wild hog hunting and throwing sparks on my grinder making knives!! Re-loading, customizing my guns, I do stay VERY busy!!

Sport clay shooting.

Anything outdoors with skiing being at the top of the list. In the late 70's, we would go to Vermont for a week and ski at a different place each day and then on the final day, go back to our favorite place.

Fly fishing, hunting, and mountain biking would be next.

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Watching my Auburn Tigers play like they did today. I love college football.

Scuba diving on a larger wreck I have never explored and got into places very few will every see.

This is pretty hard to beat on a small Oregon coastal stream fresh out of the ocean, and fight like nothing else.

Riding really fast 2 wheelers around corners too fast.

Driving really fast 4 wheelers around corners too fast.

Working and training the Maligator.

Dating women 20 years younger than me.

going on trips with my family

I think going on road trips.

I always used to enjoy it. Stopped doing it for the longest time. Then, four-five years ago my wife and I went on a real vacation for the first time in ages. Drove up to Michigan's UP and cruised around there for most of a week.

My love of going on road trips has been rekindled. We went to the west side of the state for a few nights a few weeks ago. We're going somewhere for an over-nighter w/in the next couple weeks or so.

It's fun being on the road and seeing new places.

We're talking about an RV, so we can take longer trips and bring the cats.

This.

Reading the Sig Forum and learning new things to do and how to do them!

Lately, reading SIGforum and then ordering expensive shit that I don't need from Amazon.

Road cycling, boating, water skiing, sailboat racing, ice skating, working on my cars, motorcycles, boats and bicycles. Shooting, gun smithing, reloading. Hanging out with wife, kids and new grandson.

Doing anything with my son, especially cycling, canoe racing, and playing hockey. He's a supremely likable guy. In many ways he's an improved version of me. Much improved. He's positive, caring, deals in no BS, blows off any ill will sent his way. He only deals in positivity and creating. He can immediately sense BS and judge character. He has a great yoga instructor and musician girlfriend. My daughter is quite special too. It's been amazing watching her become a mother. Her son Henry is a lucky guy. Her husband is amazingly brilliant and a great dad.