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Piddling day…

Yep , my Dad use to accuse us kids of piddling along… which meant that we were not getting anything done and what we were doing was real slow… that was today!

With that said I can list all the small things I did and some would think I did a lot… (but not many).  I did start a bit slow.  My breakfast was peach yogurt, cranberry/grape juice and a oat bar.  I folded the towels I washed yesteray, and folded the main load I washed last night then put in another load and got that going (my hoodie was pretty bad).  I went out to radio while the cleaning lady was here but the bands were near dead?  now this is dead when I go to 20 meter and see this on the weak signal bands…

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normally you can’t find a spot to get in on that band? and this was my spots for 30 minutes in the afternoon…

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That’s pretty bad… so it wasn’t a day to play radio… and the morning wind and temps in the low 50’s it wasn’t fun to be out side, although afternoon it got much better and I got out…

I made my trip in for lunch… nothing exciting there except it is lunch with Sherrie… but one couldn’t tell that either as we don’t talk much except during the ride to… “where you want to go”"?’ “ I don’t care where do you want to go?” is the major topic…

Once home I started another load of laundry… and started dinner.  Making green chili from some smoked pulled pork butt and the necessary stuff to make it GREEN… hey it was St Patrick day and Green is great for your health too?  well, probably not so much green chili but it works for me… so here it all goes in to the pot… gonna slow cook it so the chili gets into the pork butt… it’s all about flavor…

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The ingredients… into the pot and simmer for about 4 hours… I also add about 2/3 jar of water…

So once that was all started I did some antennas work outside…

I have laid out my conduit for the coax to run in… but am waiting a bit … a little more rain and the ground should be real soft.  I only want to bury it enough so I can mow over it… I also had to come up with a way to seal off the ends, keep rain and varmints out… so …. a bicycle inner tube cut and folded back with a hose clamp will do that trick nice … once the coax and lines are in I can just move the hose clamp up and put in maybe some styrofoam pices and squeeze on that?  but it is sealed off… only the little bugs and they don’t count…

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Sealing trick.

Next I needed to re-align my mag loop and raise it up a bit off the post… I found a longer conduit so am trying it for now..

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This one is only about 1 ft longer… I may go with one that is 2 ft longer if I move the loop… and for that I may move it to the farther post that had a blue bird house on it but first I wanted to move that post to the middle of the dam (make it easier to mow around and turn the bird house so I can spot the opening from the house… watch for invading sparrows that way…

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Speaking of those… I noticed some working into the Blue Bird boxes on either side of the front yard so I set traps and within 10 minutes I had two sparrows… they went to the happy hunting ground and the traps removed till I see more invaders… then… it was about time for dinner and …

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The finished product… bean-cheese burritos smothered in green chili… not bad for a tuesday…

See it sounds like a lot when you string it all out… but not much to show for it… other than a full belly… !  clean clothes… and ready and prepped for blue-bird watching…

 

WD0AJG

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