Hobbies, huh?
I have more hobbies than I can afford.
To keep it short. . .
In 1975, I was introduced to Civil War reenacting and Board Wargaming
During the Bicentennial of the American Revolution I portrayed a sailor at various events, such as the Penobscot Expedition and while crew on the
Pride of Baltimore at the Siege of Yorktown.
Most of my reenacting for 40 years was in the American Civil War, and most of that with the
1st Maine Cavalry, though I fell in with friends doing artillery or infantry now and then.
left 2 pics; Penobscot Expedition Maine 1979,
Pride of Baltimore 1981, Loudoun County Virginia 2009
I don't know if it's a
hobby but I've been drawing since I can recall. Mostly doodling, sometimes it had to do with work, like putting Donald Duck on a sail, or sketching because I couldn't afford film for my camera, when I had one. When I wanted to work on the boats, books and drawing were the only way I had to learn; drawing and modeling were how I supplemented that, until I could finally get hands-on experience.
An offshoot of drawing was 3D modeling, which I got into by making new models for a World War I computer flight simulator/game, I was partial to Nieuports.
Here' some of my model as seen in the game: Gotha G.III, Handley-Page 0400, Nieuport 10, Nieuport 12 & 11

If you check out the Thingiverse link in my signature, you'll see how my 3D modeling hobby morphed into a 3D Printing hobby.
I've always been a stargazer and a follower of the Space Program, so I list astronomy as a hobby; though all my life, if there's some event to see in the sky, 90% of the time, it's cloudy where I am. I never managed to do any
astro-photography, so there's no cool pictures to post-sorry.
The scope on the left I no longer have, sold it in 2012, The more tripod than scope I saw Halley through in 1985, and still have it. The red one's a 10 inch
Dobsonian, and the newest is a 12 inch
Dobsonian I just got in 2024.

Wargaming is the other hobby I got into in the '70s and that I still do; though the games have gotten SO expensive, I took to making my own.
Oh, and sailing, for fun, I guess that's a hobby. It was a
career for a while
Here's my daysailer,
Lydia, I've had since 1978. The girl in the boat is also Lydia, she drives tugboats in Galveston Texas.
