They were predicting potential storms and 100% chance of rain for today… well, it did rain but not enough to even get the street wet. We are still about 80% behind our normal rainfall for the year… pretty bad. On the news it was said that it is now drier than it was during the dust bowl days of the 30’s… What next? Since we have been spared the tornados so far, we will get the next hurricane to come all the way up here this summer or next fall…
On another note… it got cooler here today. We have a small dog (cross between cocker and shiz zu) … it is our Cock-a-Shit dog… anyway we got here sheared last week cause that long hair fuzz was a collection for all the oak and what ever blooms and stickers and ticks and anything else you can think of… it may have looked cute but after a trip out side it was hours of brushing to get 10% of that crap out… so off with the hair. The only problem is she thinks she is freezing to death at 80 degrees… has been hold up on Sherries lap every minute possible and when not there… she does this…
The lap blankets we have , are generally left on the couch… and she has been getting on them, I helped a little by pulling it up around her a bit and once in there , she didn’t move most of the day… usually she has to follow me out everywhere but not today… and when I came back in one trip…
Did that herself… honest it is not a set up picture , just here wiggling down to get it all the way up… at the same time the Cat has taken over the Dog crate…
She has a crate of her own but this one seems to be much nicer for afternoon naps?
Most of today was a run around day… expecting rain I didn’t want to go get stuff that I had to haul on the trailer and let it get wet so I held off doing that but did several other short trips to town to send things off, pick up groceries and other stuff… oh and lunch with my sweetie…
Dinner, well I cooked… had picked up some pork loin chops and marinated them with Bourbon and brown sugar spices and then smoked them on the Treager… pretty tasty and we have two left for later…
Went great with a baked potato and fresh Asparagus… oh and a little salad so we did it up healthy tonight…
On the other front… There was a 6 meter opening for a little bit this evening… strange that I would check it out and attempt to make a contact with no real 6 meter antenna. I had been playing with my 10-160 Windom and it will partially tune up on 6 but I know it is not too good. running about 10 watts I got one contact in with Idaho before it went dead… funny how that works here but I hear 3 stations and called CQ and got the one response and then… poof nothing else was heard… I really need to get a better antenna up for 6 meter this summer and see if I can get a few Sporadic E contacts done? looks like it may be a decent summer for it…
WD0AJG