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- First redbud of the year behind the south garden
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- Flame, the rooster
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- More redbud below our neighbor’s solar panels
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- Isolated power supply, PTT switching, and preamp to connect a Yaesu MD-100 microphone or FT-8 interface to either an Yaesu FT-990 or a uBitx tansceiver
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- Completed switchbox/preamp with all associated cables
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- A hickory tree fell onto our woodshed
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- Lengthwise from the root ball
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- Repaired a few sticky keys
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- Minor damage to the hot tubs from the hickory tree.
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- We will rebuild
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- Part of the mass of vines attached to the hickory
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- Part of the south garden
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- Adding a a dc/dc ‘boost’ converter to power a friend’s guitar amp from an 18 volt battery
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- Temporary 18 VDC power supply for the uBitx transceiver finals
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- Windrows from first cutting of mulch hay with a grass scythe
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- Home-made tilto-over base for an 18-AVQ-2 vertical antenna.
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- Home made mulch hay
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- Permanent power supply for uBitx final (13.8v to 18v dc/dc converter) allows uBitx to run ~40PEP on SSB
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- Garlic drying in the chicken wire, first onions drying on the floor
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- Recently fortified chickland after a weasel or something got into overflow chickland (killed the mother and ate the chicks)
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- Inner door to chickland
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- Outer ‘service hatch’ to chickland. Despite solid walls and no discernible crack bigger than about 1/4″ around either hatch, something got in, killed the mother hen, and ate 2 (possibly 3) chicks. Next step is to replace the top of chickland with solid boards as it is currently a piece of vinyl flooring over a lath of wood strips – maybe demon weasels can squeeze though one of the back corners, though both corners seem to be tightly stuffed with hay)
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- Chicken coop window
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- Chicken coop, with chicken door open
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- 18AVQ antenna exyended2.5 feet above the tiltover base. SWR is still wonky due to the cupola roof, but it’s way to hot up there recently to experiment with grounding and bonding options
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- This years’ yellow onions and a few herbs
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- Red onions and a few more yellow onions
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- Evan more onions, plus some of the first tomatoes for canning tomato sauce
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- War games – Osprey V22 flying low over the hills and hollows in hoover mode, for hours on end four days running
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- These things are LOUD, not to mention very expensive (~$87 million)
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- First firing of the rebuilt hot tubs
