When your not dreaming of palm trees........

Hmmm.

How about my wife and kids, Jesus then hockey, hockey and then hockey.

I also played football till I was in my early twenties then I just did not get big enough and fast enough to go any further.

I love to travel to where else the tropics.

and finally Jeeps.

Yup that about sums me up when I am not in the garden or playing with palms.

A Canadian liking hockey!?!?! Never heard of such a thing!!! 😆

Ahh, the good old jeeps. I learned to drive with my dad's Jeep Honcho. I could not get that truck stuck, believe me I tried. 😀

Retun trip to the big bowl. The HAWKS have been my favorite since my dad got cable 1983. Go Hawks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

When it comes to the NFL I am with you, Go Seahawks!

Yeah, Spending time my wife and kids. I am a four wheeler fanatic. That's my other hobbie I have been doing for 15 years or so. Instead of Jeeps I build Toyotas. My current project is my 85 4runner. I just finished the suspension this last week. Now it's gears, lockers and tires. 😀 My wife thinks I am pretty crazy for working on my truck out in the cold when it was snowing. I guess I will have to build a big garage then. That's after the bigger greenhouse of course. 🙂 I also do graphic design and love to draw etc.

Here's a few pics of the work I did to my truck this past week.

Regards,
Jay

If I am not dreaming about Palms, I am thinking about Bananas, yuccas and exotic plants.

I still think of touring offroad, although my Nissan Frontier has been gone a year. One of my highlights was going over Yanks Leap south of Barkerville in the midst of a thunderstorm. You haven't lived until you have looked down on a thunderstorm. The 7 hour trip from Barkerville to Williams Lake was made even more interesting When the storm knocked out power and we drove in pitch black for trip down the mountain and on to Williams Lake. Watching the grizzlies fish for salmon in the Alaska panhandle comes a close second.

I also love the feel of a beautifully grained piece of oak, walnut or cherry. I won't be building furniture again until I have finished renovating the house. But I should be able to do a little wood turning.

I also follow the Eskimos and the CFL as well as watch the Oilers lose(or win in a shoot out). Go Nucks.

Allen

I am also more of a CFL fan than NFL.
Of course I am a big Lions and Canucks fan.

I can't seem to get interested in professional sports anymore. It's the same regurgitated stuff over and over with overpaid watered down talent. I know people that spend 20 hrs a week in front of their TV watching sports! IMHO a waste of time.

More to the topic at hand, my hobbies have previously and some now include music and playing guitar, wood working, coin collecting, art, my dogs, hiking, travel, history, palms and exotics (of course), automotive, beer ... probably many more I can't recall thanks to the beer. 😆

Cheers, Barrie.

beer ... probably many more I can't recall thanks to the beer.

I'll second that 😆

Ah yes beer. My favourite is dos equis and some of the BC micro breweries.
Bowen Island, Granville Island, etc.

Barrie any good micro breweries on the island?

Hiking is also one of my favourite past times. Living on the North Shore I am surrounded by mountians and rivers and the ocean so I hike a lot with my wife and my shepherd / wolf cross dog.
See I forgot to mention that and it probably did have something to do with beer.

Barrie; I would agree with you on professional sports being the same old same old. But I doubt that anyone would think that most CFL players are overpaid. I think that 20 hrs per week of professional sports would probably kill me. 3 to 4 hours every week or 2 is enough for me.

Allen

I'd have to agree Allen about the CFL (Canadian Football League) and them not being overpaid. Often it's beeing a scouting league for the NFL and players showing good promise are given contracts there.
There are those that would argue sports is good entertainment, nothing more than what I would consider a concert or Egyptian artifacts exibit. So it's where you what to spend your money and what you get out of it personally.

Wes ... There's plenty of micro-breweries here on Vancouver Island but I'm a mainstream beer drinker. Once you leave town for any reason, the micro-brew guys are scrambling and wasting time testing new beers to fine one they like. Me, I roll in and order a Budweiser anywhere in the world and I'm not wasting time sampling. Straight to the business at hand 😆

Laaz ... good to see your avatar up again. I just had a few Corona recently and during last summer with fresh Key limes from my little tree. My mind flashes back to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico nearly every time I have one.

Cheers, Barrie.

Wildlife, desert plants and any desert stuff, travel, hiking, family, Jesus, reptiles, music, landscaping, car/trucks, corvettes, mountains, I just can't seem to get enough of life. 😀 I love every day that I am here, my life is a hobby, exept for work. 😆

Like you Aaron, I get to enjoy much of the outdoors. I work right at the edge of the Ocean and consider myself fortunate for all that it offers. So I can be outdoors at work and enjoy my day there. It's always interesting to see the look on someones face after seeing a whale, bald eagle or seal for the first time.
Here's a small glimpse of what I see everyday at work. The cliffs on Gabriola Island are 300' high and from this view about a mile away.
Cheers, Barrie.