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Melodeon playing and what other things do you like to do?
boxcall:
So as the title goes what other hobbies do melodeon players like to do?
This is something I am curious about is there any relation to are interest in melodeons and other things we find interesting or fun to do.
I'll go first, so for the last thirty something years I have been MAD about mushroom hunting, I know around fifty different edible mushrooms that I eat, and hundreds more I can Identify (a fun fact is the largest living thing on this planet is a mushroom, not the part we eat, which is like an apple is to a tree ,that is the fruit of the plant, so the plant is the stuff you would see if you turn over a log, the white cobweb looking stuff called mycelium) in Oregon there is a plant that is over 2 thousand acres in size and almost or more than that in age so it's mass is the largest living thing on this planet). I also like to go fishing and watch or play hockey, I was also a volunteer for my local ( all volunteer) fire dept. not really a hobbie but thought it was a good way to help the community I live in. In a lot of ways it help me out with meeting people and making connections for my work in construction ( building houses) I just recently retired after 16 yrs. from the fire dept. As it became to much of a commitment with running my own business which I've done for 33yrs.
Ok so lets hear your hobbies or things you like to do , I'm interested if we have any other connections.
I hope this is ok for general topics maybe it should be in the sand box?
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John MacKenzie (Cugiok):
Sea fishing, wood turning, harmonica playing, guitar playing, and cooking. Among other things
Sir John
boxcall:
Well there's a connection as we both like to fish and I like cooking also but like eating more
Thanks Sir John
playandteach:
Until very recently I was a keen and competitive table tennis player - melodeons start to look like value for money when you're shelling out over £100 just for the bat rubbers.
A bit of golf at the moment, though I've knackered my right hand somehow, so that's off the list right now. Playing piano for my daughter's flute pieces. It's amazing how a hand injury affects pretty much everything.
Writing tunes, arranging tunes. Spent a couple of months making lamps out of odd things recently. I have to keep my mind occupied otherwise I start thinking.
I've always fancied wood turning - I've been watching some youtube wood turning projects over the last couple of weeks. And actually some gardening too, though it's really just putting things in pots rather than proper gardening.
Martin P:
Totally different. Scuba-diving and marine life surveys. Also, walking the coastal paths of Devon and its rolling hills, but the later is sort of linked to folk music because of places I visit on walks and I always have a tune in my head when strolling about.
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