Things I love!!!!

[chefjamesscott]

good one death pony

Well thanks everyone for posting up stuff, I love the metal bowl and the plants.

I hope everyone had a great holiday season. Thought it was time to post up a string of pics for the thread.

Since I am redoing our house it was time to break out the boxes of stuff I have had laying around and put some of the stuff on display and move some of the stuff off the top shelf to a display shelf, so some of the pics of the stuff are a wee bit dusty.

first a gratuitous picture of my hawk hanging out on her chair

I absolutely love old books, so here are a few from my collection

Queen Victoria from the 1500's

Nothing better to get a view of ancient times than from someone who lived in them

A little gem picked up for $2.50 dude had no idea what he had.

A book I picked up for my daughter josepha.

What good is vintage vinyl if you don't have the right machine to play it on!!!

Some of my 400 or so vinyl discs from 78-45-33, I have a huge assortment of stuff. I love to be able to show my kids what used to be. They were totally blown out of the water when I showed them this stuff as I unpacked it.

A few more of my dolls. I will have to unpack all of my dolls and stuffed animals and take a group shot of them.

Yup it still works , though the cord is super brittle.

Just some of my toys. I totally love the last music box thing as it has always been my top favourite disney ride and song.

I was totally blown away when I found this nugget in one of the boxes we unpacked, I had counted it as lost yet, one of the boxes contained my mementos of catering events past. This was was a top honour for me one of my feathers in my cap shall we say. They approached me to do their entire retinue of foodservices while the team was in regina. I like to say be passionate and love what you do or change what you do, for what good is what you do if you don't love it!

This next few pictures represent 2 things I love coming together, was fantastic to see happen.

This is spike and my daughter Josepha. When we got spike just over a year and half ago, we rescued him from what can only be called a backyard puppymill breeder. She brought up 3 dogs from Georgia at a cost of $5,000.00, and by the time the females were 3 years old they had each had 3 litters (if I have the time right). So now that she had finished making her money from them, the parents became a hassle. She actually said spike was so ugly that she was gonna put him down. We were able to get both spike and one of the females for $300. The female nala, a powder puff had one litter at our house then we sent her to live with my wife's cousin who fell in love with her when she groomed her. One of the puppies went to the origional owners cousin in calgary alberta, and we gave patch the female powder puff baby to my wife's sister. I kept spike, spot (hairless boy) and hawk (hairless female-spayed).

What is so fantastic about this happening is that from the time we got spike for my daughter, she has been trying so much to love on him but he has been distant. He spent all his free time being kenneled at his last home, so far as I understand being let out to breed. On the ride home from getting him he dropped to the firewall of the truck and cowered. He would not let my daughter or I get close to him. She was totally let down when he would not come near her when we got home he would not even move from the firewall after we got home and even bared his teeth at me when I tried to touch him to give him some reassurance. My daughter went into the house somewhat dismayed that we might have to give him back, and I spent the next half hour trying to get him to feel comfortable. Then I got an idea.

The lady we got him from had put his kennel in the bed of the truck. I went and got his blanket from the kennel put it on the passenger seat and laid across the seat with my head on his blanket, and his eyes lit up. It took me about 5 minutes from there to get a lead on him and he jumped out of the truck, and he came with me in the house.

For his first few months he was like this with me only an no one else.

when we got nala a few months later I let my daughter hold her all the way home

and when josepha walked in the door holding her, spikes shell broke open

my daughter was loving it but still spike was distant until this last 2 weeks or so he has totally warmed up to her.

Well I figure this post is long enough will pop back in a bit, yall have a great day and SPREAD THE LOVE!!!!!

 

[chefjamesscott]

Had my daughters pet rat out for a snuggle time the other night, we have many animals and pets but this guy is totally luvable. It actually snuggleed in and went to sleep in the crook of my arm.

I love the surprizes that this hobby of keeping pets offers up .

Here is another pet moment. A while ago I bought what was suppose to be a pair of wild caught salamanders that a farm couple caught in their back yard and decided to get rid of when they moved to regina. I was beginning to think they had yanked my chain when the other salamander was nowhere to be seen after having them for 3 1/2 weeks. I was going to take the tank apart to see if it indeed was there or was perhaps dead. When I got home from work a few days ago this is what I saw.

the hidden one came out

the one that was visible.

I LOVE THE DIVERSITY OF WHAT ANIMAL HOLDS

 

[PaulJ69]

Found my Megalodon teeth!
Not in the best condition but hey they are old!

 

[chefjamesscott]

schweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet I love it thanks for sharing the pics

imagine getting bit by a shark with teeth that size

I checked into getting replica megalodon jaws and I can get a nice one made for about 30grand that is on my wish list for sure

 

[Dwarf Puffers]

Wow Chef, some different hobbies there, kudos to you for sharing them. I'm digging the Snoopy toys, megalodon teeth and critters especially


Probably my most prominent hobby is reading, mostly fiction but also whatever happens to come my way. I have shelves of books, old and new, and I really get a kick out of how you can be immersed in a different world by reading someone's imagination put onto paper (just read the first two Hunger Games books, they're going up there with the R A Salvatore masterpiece series). Reading also gave me a wider vocabulary

Of course, the only thing that could tie with reading are animals. There aren't really any animals I don't like, just that some hit a real sweet spot with me. Breeding really makes my day that I've helped to pass more of an awesome animal into the world and that I'm fulfilling the life's mission of my pets. Doesn't hurt that there's money to be made or trades to be negotciated in spreading them around, either. I just brought back a haul of shrimp, assassin snails and multis, so I have a shot at breeding all of them. Also, I get a kick out of caring for animals as well, even little things like feeding and watering, if you can believe it. Helps with bonding too.

Another thing that I love are movies. Same kind of deal as reading, you get immersed in a world that belongs to not only the creator but to anyone that watches/reads it. I've seen Avatar eight times in normal theatre, and will see it at least one more time in Imax 3D. Top favourite movie yet, IMO :bow:

My main entertainment is my imagination. I dabble in writing and drawing and when I hit my stride, the people who see it are impressed. I'll probably take a stab at writing a novel sometime.

Fossils and antiques (especially weapons) interest me. I have a fossilized trilobite about 3, maybe 3.5" long, some ammonites (polished and natural), plants and a horn of some sort about an inch long (seems too blunt to be a tooth), among other things. I'd LOVE to get hold of some shark teeth, especially Megalodon, and I'm sure I will.

Old weapons and armor in general, I really like. Guns, bows, Medeival weapons, it's all good. I can probably thank fiction reading and my imagination for that.

Music. Recent and not so recent, I love it. I used to be able to dish it out fairly well on a piano, but I'm pretty rusty now.

Plants too, I should mention. I love natural growth.

Catch and release fishing (or catch and keep for breeding in tanks or my pond, depending on laws and the fish in question) grabbed ahold of me thanks to my uncle taking me out fishing from a young age. The release part is from my softer side, though.


All I can think of right now, sorry if you were hoping for pics or better interests

 

[Jill-O]

I think a person only has to talk to me for about 5 minutes to know what my "big" hobby is!

 

[Dangerdoll]

I love the antique stuff you have there.... oh, and I also love bacon

 

[chefjamesscott]

I have just found a you tube video that I TOTALLY HAVE FALLEN IN LOVE WITH!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEdVfyt-mLw&feature=fvw

the video proves that some white guys can't dance

if a mod could imbed pleasae

In my immediate family 2 of my aunt's who impacted and helped shape me as a man fell to cancer and this video just made my day even though it made me cry. The scene at 3:17 did it

 

[chefjamesscott]

Hello all I thought it was time to drop another love of mine on the thread. Though this is not a type of LOVE thing I personally enjoy.

I LOVE HAVING TO DEAL WITH NOW EXBUSINESS PARTNERS WHO THINK THEY SHOULD GET THE GOLD AND GIVE YA THE SHAFT!!!!!

I will not go into details, suffice it to say I do not understand what is so hard for people to honour the terms of the legal things they sign. :hypnotized:

Were they under a spell when they signed it? Is it so unclear as to what they signed :y220d:? Is it so hard for them to understand that what is written in clear legal definitives is exactly that clear legal terms.

Been having a fun time where the person wishes :worthy:, but seems to have forgotten that signed sealed and witnessed legal documents are binding, so they can take this :nutkick:hard enough to make them :barf:for all I care because

I LOVE A THROWDOWN. :naughty:

That is why I do this :read: before it ever comes to this :shark:

by the way did I say I LOVE SMILIES :bling:

Well be back later have to do some loving!!!!!!!! :shocked:

 

[chefjamesscott]

Ok I have waited a bit to repost on this thread, simplly because I wanted to wait for my train of thought to get back on track for what I started this thread for.

One thing I absolutely love about this day and age in which we live is the marvelous sense of humour I am finding shown on the shirts that people wear. I got this one from a customer as they came to order lunch the other day. So priceless so funny

I had one thing happen today that further reinforces my passion and love for this hobby/lifestyle of animal keeping.

I have a list of one day animals. This is a list I have compiled that one day I hope to be blessed enough to have the pleasure of sharing life space with.

Well last week I was in petsmart getting some prime and I happen to get into a conversation with a gentleman who was buying feeders. When I asked him what he was feeding he said softshell turtle. When I asked him where he got it he told me he brought it in from vancouver. So I said if you ever wish to rehome that I have always wanted one, and that is the truth they are so cool but almost impossible to get in regina. Then he said ok I am kind of sick of it anyways it is getting to big would you like to buy it for what I paid for it as a baby($75). I was in shock and said sure.

So he walked away and then came back and gave me a final tally as he had gone pricing out the stuff in the store and said $160 for all you need, do you have a tank. It ended up being $190 for a everything needed I already had a tank I could put to this use.

So here is the yet unnamed newest pet love of my life.

last pic is with an aqua 110 down tube for size comparison

what I love most about this is my kids have for some time wanted a turtle.