I jumped out of bed this morning… yea, jumped… right??? and wandered out to let the dogs out, feed them, etc.… while I tried to get my eyes to focus… Once all that was done I got focused on breakfast… fixed myself some “cackleberries and Hogside” as my old friend used to call it… not bad for a start… but even with that I was not in the mood for jumping into work or anything else for that matter but , I had things to do… First up was to do some research on a couple of old gas wells … family stuff… pulled some records from the Corporation Commission site… they don’t have much… but interesting as they were pretty old wells… anyway once it warmed up a bit I went out and did a double check on one of the last videos I recorded… got all of that one so started another one… getting all of the family stuff converted to digital for saving… then got busy and started doing some tree trimming… I have a bunch of cedar trees and junk bushes on the north side that had grown up in the old farm fence (barbed wire) that are pretty much ok from my side of the fence but they are crowding in on the new neighbors fence and it makes it difficult to get in and clean out trash and other stuff back there … and I wanted to get rid of that old barbed wire fence… it is always catching and tearing something… usually me…
I spent an hour or so on that then headed in town for lunch… well I forgot that Sherrie had a function for lunch and when I got there she reminded me so I took off “on my own” for lunch… figured I would try a place we never go to so went to the El Tapatio on the south side… they have 4.99 specials for lunch (actually I have seen in the paper they are 3.99 specials but not unless you have the deal from the paper??? anyway that is still pretty cheap and they are reasonably fast and the food is …. as good as fast food MEX.… what can I say? anyway way when I got that done I stopped by the screenprinter/shirt place and put in an order for some patches for the ham club… figure I will just go ahead and get a few made up and donate them to the club… if they like them, ok, if they don’t ok… once that was done I got home and back to the fence removal and clean out… this was the last section of wire to remove… I still have some trees to trim out but most of it is done for now…
it was a jungle on that side of the trees and lots of stickers, vines, bushes, etc.… but now it is pretty clear so I can maybe keep it trimmed out with the weedeater…
That is the pile of stuff, I cut out… some day it will be a big bon-fire… will be a bit of a problem as the cedar will burn up real fast and will require me to stand watch with a hose… and maybe do it when it is raining? ha!…
I also now have a big pile of barbed wire that I will have to haul off? maybe tomorrow or the next day?
Near the back of the yard I have a blue bird house but this year it is a chick-a-dee that has taken it over… I checked it and found eggs to day… careful to not disturb…
That’s a first for me to find a bird other than blue bird or sparrow in those boxes… on the other side of the yard I have a box and noticed today that it had been taken by a sparrow… damn pest… so I set up on the deck tonight and got lucky… picked off that sparrow with my air-rifle… then cleaned out the nest and junk… it had 3 eggs in it… so that is a few less pests to deal with… hope the blue birds come back now… I am short this year… only seem to have one nesting pair out of my 5 boxes…
The other day in town I found out that those big pickups rear fenders are not too sturdy…
both are being held on by bungee cords or held in?
It turned out to be a real nice day… not too hot, not cold, and not a lot of wind… yesterday evening I even got a little radio in and of all things… made a dx contact on 80 meters? the noise had dropped a bit and I picked up YV4OW on 80… I had figured that most of 80 would be dead till fall for anything other than local stuff? I sure do like my mag loop antenna… it knocks out a lot of noise and the signals are still there… weak but in there… so maybe I will have to do some more checking during the summer and see what else develops…
WD0AJG