It has been a few days (weeks) since I posted last. I have been real busy (ha ha)… To all my working friends this is what happens when you retire. You end up with more things to do, more that you can do, and more that you can put off because you are retired… so lets get to the facts here…
I don’t think I have done anything about me and what I since maybe homecoming? like 2 weeks… ouch I should be ashamed to have gone this long.
I was in mourning the week after homecoming, cause we did so poorly. It was also damn hot out there in the sun… we almost cooked. That week I was pretty radio active and did some small house and yard repairs. Had to re-work the sprinkler for the front as the program had died on the auto-valve… strange it did that… I replaced some front led post lights as one had burnt out ant the other was really weak…
The new ones are shiny and bright…
I also got BLACK-JACK in the Crack….
Ran out before I got it all filled and now I have to wait for warmer weather… oh well…
I went to a Hamfest Nov 1… sold a bunch of my junk, by the box… it was actually give away a bunch of it but so what, I did trade for a part that I could use in replacement for a big packer box nearly full of old stuff I had not looked at in 3 or 5 years… I have another big black box and I am going through my stuff and putting it in the box to sell as the first opportunity next year… slowly but surely I am weeding out some stuff… but soon as I do, I go get something new… picked up a used antennas that I will use this winter… I hope… it is supposed to be “noise” reducing for the low bands.., Speaking of that I have done fairly well… I am down to needing just 6 contacts on two bands to finish up my quest for 9 Band Worked all States… that is making contact with a ham via radio, in all 50 states on 9 different operational bands… means I have to make a total of 450 contacts. Well in order to get those special 450 you almost have to work 4500 or more… I have been lucky in a lot of cases and either found the right contact or tracked them down and sent them an email to watch for me at specific times… anyway I have just 6 more that I need confirmed to finish up the 9BWAS and I think I will apply for the awards this time… they are certificates and by using LOTW I get auto confirmation (but it makes it harder as not all hams use LOTW)… oh well…
During the week I made several runs to Wal-Mart and other places and the BIRDS knew it was coming… the cold… they were gathering
You sure don’t want to park your car near the trees at Wal-Mart…
We had a big moon one night and I captured a few pictures of it..
no those are not birds in the tree, just the remaining leaves of that tree…
Next on my list of things was to go to Dallas for birthday weekend… Luke had his birthday party on the weekend even though his day was earlier in the week and Friday was Sherrie’s birthday… and we celebrated by going out to eat… in Dallas… at ……….. Fuzzy’s Taco’s… she could have had anything she wanted but that was it for lunch…
Didn’t get the before picture, I was hungry, but that is what I had and they all helped finish it off… ha!
This was the birthday boy… he has a way with faces when he wants something and wants it now…
He was happy most of the time… but he was hungry and they were not moving fast enough…
When things are good…
He and his DAD working with the hat… think Dad was watching a FB game…
And of course Grandma doing what she does best…
We have also made one Girls exhibition game… I ended up getting new seats for the WBB games this year… actually have two sets this year both real good seats so if someone likes to watch the women play BB, let me know…
Since we made it to Dallas we missed the first Men’s and second Women’s games but we have a big weekend planned this weekend… the BB games will be ok. 2 on Friday and 2 on Sunday… but the Saturday Football game… may not be so much fun… it is supposed to be near freezing, and possible snow… geez we burn up one game and the next we freeze our buts to the seats… We need to win this one because the next two are against a top 10 and a just out of the top 25 team…
So that is the catch up here… trying to survive the damn cold… they say it got to 30 but the windchill here was in the 20’s… although when our kids from up north called they said it got all the way up to 5 today up there… I need to be much further south looking for 70 degrees… oh well, next year, maybe…
WD0AJG