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Now that you're retired, what do you and your family spend time doing? Traveling? Carpentry? Metalworking? Quilting? Birding? Sports? Volunteering? Boating? Send a picture of you enjoying your hobby and we'll post it here. Feel free to include a website or email address to help promote your hobby! |
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Jerry Carroll sent this picture of a bench he made for the junior high school in Momence. He said, "I built an all steel memorial bench for the family of Momence school teacher, Steve Johnson. Steve passed away awhile back. The bench is installed on the west side of the junior high. It's engraved and painted with an automotive finish. My wife, Carol, is standing behind it."
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Harry Duncan is simply a wizard with a jig saw turning plain planks of wood into candalabras, collaspible baskets, angels, creches, Christmas trees and snowmen that he sells at local craft shows. |
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Jerry and Carol Carroll showed off their art work at the First Baptist Church Art Show in Momence on July 26, 2003. Jerry entered guns, powder horns, knives and other metal work that he's created while Carol entered her paintings. Jerry also made the easel for Carol's paintings. The guns have silver and brass wire inlay carving as well as engraving, which qualifys them as art. |
'Andybill' Jarmon's wife Alyce is a writer for the Post Tribune. She covered the annual Elvis Birthday Celebration at the Holiday Star Theater last month. Ryan Pelton, Elvis impersonator pictured above, performed as well as Elvis' own drummer, famed D.J. Fontana. Click on Pelton's picture above to read the whole story. Then visit this page to read a sweet and funny story that Alyce wrote about her love affair with the family pets... |
Larry Balducci's wife, Betty, sent us this great picture saying that since
Larry's retired he's gotten into woodworking and this neat Harley motorcycle rocker for their grandson is his latest project. |
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Larry Balducci, a model railroader nearly all his life, built the model railroad seen in these pictures. Check out all the complex controls on the front of the table that run and maneuver his trains. Mountains, painted on the wall in the background make a realistic backdrop for all of the detailed, miniature buildings and street scenes Larry built.
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Jerry Carroll sent pictures of some of the metal work he has forged in his blacksmith shop. The knife, to the right, was made from a railroad spike. Jerry said that the rose in the pitcher, in the picture to the left, started out as a length of 3/8 round bolt stock. A wrought iron candle stand and ornate hooks are some of the other decorative work that he has done. To see pictures, click on the underlined hyperlinks. Jerry not only creates beautiful and useful metal work, he teaches smithing as well. |
This picture of Bob Pearson at his ham radio
was sent in by William "Andybill" Jarmon. |
Paul Dishman, left, wearing the familiar black satin UAW Local 588 jacket, sent us this picture of himself and his friend Don at Hamfest 2002 in Hazard, Kentucky held November 9th. Paul, a Welder Repairman, retired in 1993 and is a Ham Radio enthusiast. |
Don Cox, retired Stockchaser/Cleaner sent some pictures to share. Above, Don's friend Clyde Griggs, left, retired Control Checker vacationed with Don in Historic Charleston, S.C. this summer, 2002. A few years ago, Clyde helped Don build a shelter for a backyard swing. Don says the November day was "82 degrees and humid!" To see the picture, click here. In the picture, Clyde is on the left and Don is on the right. |
Clyde Griggs at Patriot's Point Naval Museum Charleston, S.C. After Don took Clyde's picture in front of the USS Yorktown, Clyde took Don's picture. You can see it here. |
Nancy Hill sent along these pictures of the terrific gazebo
husband John built for her. Click on the picture for another view. |
