Great thread fusion, and a lot of great comments guys.

Like Pluckit, I chase the wily Speck, along with Redfish (Red Drum), flounder and just about anything else that swims the salt marsh. And like SJAdventures, I do a little crabbing now and then (love those suckers). My gardening is limited to a dozen or so tomato plants and another dozen pepper plants and some herbs. Just don't have the room for more. I still do some reloading but not nearly what I did at one time when the kids were young and could burn up several hundred rounds on a weekend.

Now I'm going to admit to what my wife calls "his peculiarity". I'm a junk collector. Can't pass up a good trash pile without checking to see if it contains something I might want. My garage contains piles of weird and broken stuff "I might need one day". I love to tinker and make oddball contraptions (such as my ball tumbler made from a barbecue rotisserie motor, a Pyrodex jug, and some old furniture casters). Why buy an ingot mold for casting lead when you can make one from angle iron from a bed frame? Every few years I throw half of the stuff in my garage away, and then end up collecting more junk.