Some times I just get behind… but after the weekend I was pretty tired so haven’t accomplished a lot… I have not been able to make much progress on my Worked All States goals for the radio cause the bands have been pretty dead and some of the contacts I have made have not uploaded to LOTW (Log book of the World) so I can confirm. I hate sending out cards for that so I will wait a bit longer… If all the contacts on 20 meters confirmed via LOTW I would be done on that band as well as nearly complete on 17 and 15 but alas some just don’t upload for months I guess?
I have been continuing to gather and haul off stuff…and making donations to our local charities… clothes, equipment, building supplies, etc. Anything and everything that I pull out that I have not needed for 5 years, generally goes in the “haul it off” pile. In my process of doing this I found several more boxes of old work clothes. I thought I had sent off or given away most of it but in another box I found several more articles that I will never use now… so to give them away I had to set down this morning and take off all the patches on them.
Some you can’t get the patches off as they are iron on so I guess I will keep a couple of those and in one box I found a really old pair that had the original Flying H patches on it so that I for sure will keep… back when a log meant something. I also found some of my saved back flying H caps too…
I got several versions of these… from various places we went…
Got this in Algeria… we had a “golf club” that was actually a place to gather and have customers in and it had a simple driving range… pretty sparse but everything in the desert is sparse…
Got this one back in the early 80’s…
This was before my stupidity kicked in and I went to see the world… and it is dirty cause I wore it and we worked outside a lot… ha!
This one I got ??? on a vacation somewhere and thought it was cute… now I think my Son-in-Law needs it for his work?
This was sent to me by an consultant that lives in Western Colorado…real place he says..
This one…? well in the early 80’s there was an oil field service company by that name and they had this real catch logo…
yes back then it was Oilfield Trash and still is but it paid good… at least it is orange? and maybe my son wants it?
I have also made a small replacement to the fan in the motor home… the bath fan was one of those damn little things that made a lot of noise and moved no air… so I bought a replacement that is supposed to move a lot more air … will see… it is not a fantastic fan , those were a couple hundred dollars but it is close…
This was the old fan… dinky, dirty and just made noise…
This is the new one, much larger, three speed and reversible… much cleaner too… hides that dirty cover… ha!
Now to the topic of the headline… On the first Tuesday night or every month May to October ? here in Stillwater, they have “Bike Nite” Of course last Tuesday was May 6th…
I Usually forget and as I am leaving the Ham club meeting I take a turn up Main street and it is filled with bikes, music and ??? stuff… pretty big crowd this last Tuesday…
So there is the Bikes…
We have many of the feathered friends living here… I have some Purple Martins that have included us as their home…
My problem is keeping those pesky sparrows limited and out of the housing I provide… can’t get them all but I am limiting their reproduction ability…
We also have a couple of pairs of Mocking birds… damn noisy creatures and pretty loud but today he was enjoying the breeze and doing some preening…
next up is the dragline… well in the old days it was a Mexican dragline but I am not sure that is politically correct anymore… so I used the shovel today and dug out a portion of the area under my north steps so I can pour a small foundation and put some cinder blocks in there and hopefully be able to cover them with some stones that are like the ones on the house… make that look better than an open mud pit and help divert the drain to the grass out away from going under the stairs… ? maybe? I will have to do the other side of that post as well but I will probably put in some lattice or screen so there is air flow under the stairs and landing…
That was down on your hands and knees digging under there so not a lot of fun but it was much wetter than I had anticipated? so figured to get it while it was easier digging… although not much of my yard is easy digging as a lot of it is that old red clay soil… so that covers the headline…
But of course around the corner from the stairs are my columbine… I have 3 plants, two made it through the winter and I had figured them for dead? but they popped back up this spring… they are the blue in the back ground and this purple and white is one I put in over a week ago… hope it does well … I think I should try to get one of the maroon shaded one? to add… if I can find one…
So that is how it went here … tomorrow… I take the dog to get shaved … we didn’t have here shaved early enough as she is dragging in all those oak and pecan “flowers” they stick in her hair terrible and we can’t even get them all combed out… so shave it all off tomorrow…
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