I have enjoyed reading these. It seems like many of you all like gardening. I went through a two year gardening hobby phase. I had a couple community garden plots and then a plot in my sister's side yard.
I have had many hobbies over the years.
My first serious hobby was mixed martial arts/grappling. I competed in jju jitsu tournaments for a few years in high school. My dad forced me to take martial arts. That is how I got into that. During that time I also taught myself to play guitar, so I played in some folk duos and rock bands through college. I got into music listening to a blues radio program called The Sunday Night Root-hoot. So I decided to learn to play.
I have also gotten into sporting clays shooting, archery (primitive, trad, and modern), hunting, meditating, tabletop gaming, and a bunch of others. I have had as many reasons for getting into these hobbies as I have had hobbies.
Woven through all these episodic hobbies have been reading and fishing. I love both of them! When I read my first book at age 14 I thought: "Real rebels read books. I am going to be a brooding, young intellectual who is always reading." So I read to rebel. No one in my social circles was a reader.
As for fishing, it is a family tradition. If my niece or nephew want to learn to fish I will teach them our family's traditional methodology, which is highly stylized, unique, often counter-intuitive, but god dang effective.
At the moment my episodic hobbies are drawing and baseball fandom.
Drawing is solitary, and I like that. It is also expressive and exercises brain muscles I have not used before. Baseball fandom is social and is a spectacle which I enjoy.