I am not accomplishing much… focused on the small projects and still cleaning out. Although my cleaning out now is associated with the maintenance of my Sparrow trap… Sure glad the young ones are not as weary as the older ones… I didn’t count them all but figure I “disposed” of about 10 today… I have been working that trap for weeks, maybe months and have at most caught 2 or 3 but in the past few days it seems they have all came to check it out and steal some seed… but just like the Bates Motel, or Hotel California… they check in but don’t check out…
I emptied it out and with in a few hours I had 3 more… and one from the house trap, where they were taking over a bluebird house… not anymore.
Early this morning before I could even get my breakfast down, I had to get out (got a call from Sherrie to go look at clouds) and get pictures of the coming morning rain…
The pictures do not do justice to the vivid color change in the blues…
Then it was back to breakfast of avocado on toast and juice… picked up that avocado on toast from my Mom… she really liked it and I kind of grew attached to it as well… so when they are cheap, I get some and have them for breakfast…
Well before I got back out it came a shower… from those blue clouds and got everything all wet… good excuse to go play radio… I got some parts located for my electronic project and captured a couple of needed states for my quest of 9Band WAS… when the rain quit I went out and set the trap on the bluebird house to capture one of those sparrows that was figuring to move in there… got him too… that will slow the process some. Oh and the birdhouse in question is my “vertical-Birdhouse”…
The bluebird house was there first and is on a steel fence post… the vertical I put on the same post and then ran one length (125ft) of counterpoise out through the trees and out of the way… it helps but a vertical needs a lot more than one counterpoise… I am thinking of giving it a test closer to the pond and running some wire down into the pond? see how that works out… but that may be a few weeks off… lot of antenna projects keep coming up to fix, change or test… just takes time and effort.
At noon I went in town , like always and picked up Sherrie. On the way home I passed this poor old tree… not sure if it has a health problem or they decided it was too close to a power line or what but they sure butchered it up… it is a really big old tree but looks pretty sorry now…
Once home I didn’t get a lot done other than radio and pulling weeds in the flower beds/garden bed… got most of that done for now… needed to change up the watering some and that took some more time and of course some more radio contacts or attempts… not much success for what I needed…
late in the evening we were given another one of those really neat sunsets that happen during storm season…
If you look hard you can see that me and the dove were enjoying the show tonight… we are also informed that in the middle of the morning we can expect some fireworks so it will be a rough sleeping night with the weather radio going off all the time… but I get pretty good at punching the button… maybe too good?
WD0AJG