A very busy and hard working week………………….
As always, first the chronology:
9/24/23 – Sunday – Up at the usual time. Out to church a little early. Kathy likes to make the devotional sessions that start around 10:30, Home and had lunch. Down to do the blog. Julie and Shelby came over to help Kathy with her items for the silent auction next week at the church pig roast. I went over to Gary’s for the afternoon get together. Home, picked up Kathy and back into the Longhorn Steakhouse for dinner. Home and usual evening routine.
9/25/23 – Monday – Up a little late this morning. Missed the on air CW practice. Did some drills on the computer. Upstairs and cleaned up. Lunch. Then down to the church to install the shelf I built and to pick up a computer. Brought it home and spent the rest of the afternoon loading Linux MInt and Audacity. Had dinner then usual evening routine.
9/26/23 – Tuesday – Up at the usual time. Down to practice code at 9AM. Bands sucked so not much accomplished. Got cleaned up and went into J-town to my buddy Bill’s store and bought a used monitor and mouse for the computer at church. Home and Kathy was out shopping. She called and offered to bring back Jimmy John subs for lunch. Had lunch and downstairs to clean up a little. Had a Zoom class at 3PM. Finished about 4:15. Out and helped Kathy clean things up outside. In and cooked dinner. Usual evening routine.
9/27/23 – Wednesday – Up at the usual time. Down to practice code. Up and cleaned up. Kathy helped me take the computer stuff down to the church. Then to the Chinese restaurant for lunch. Down to pick up Rusty at the dog groomers. Home and a little dessert. Down to play radio and practice some more. Up for a light snack for dinner. Usual evening routine.
9/28/23 – Thursday – Up at the usual time. Down to practice code. Up and cleaned up. Kathy and I went to the Morton building an put the used tires in the truck. Took them up to the fair grounds where they were accepting them. Stopped at the Lighthouse Diner for lunch. Home and put the truck away. Took a short nap. Kathy ran up to Julie’s to pick up some things. I did a zoom class. A snack for dinner and the usual evening routine.
9/29/23 – Friday – Up at the usual time. Down to practice code. Upstairs and cleaned up. Some chores around the house including some health insurance research. A late lunch. Then down to the church to help set things up for the pig roast tomorrow. Home and had a frozen pizza for dinner. Usual evening routine.
9/30/23 – Saturday – Up a little late today. Usual Saturday morning routine. Had lunch then gathered things together and down to the church around 2PM to help finish setup for Octoberfest/Pig Roast. The event started at 4PM. I had a break till almost 7 when it was over. Then started working to take things down. Bring tables and chairs inside. Finished up and loaded our stuff in the truck. Home around 8PM. Unloaded things and rested.
Now the specifics:
Well, the annual October fest/Pig roast was this weekend at the church. We make some money but it’s mostly for people to just get together and have a good time. It started many weeks ago. Kathy was gathering things to make a couple items to donate for the silent auction. Early this week she was gathering things to make desserts. Then Friday we started the real hard work. We went down about 3PM and started moving tables and chairs and getting things staged for Saturday when the event actually occurs. The biggest job was putting up the 20 by 30 foot tent. We rent one every year and put if up to give people some shade when they are eating. We don’t have a fellowship hall large enough for everyone. Then Saturday we go back down around 2PM and start setting up tables outside with chairs. The event started at 4PM and ran till 7PM. Then we started taking things down. I was surprised we got out of there by 8PM. But a lot of people stayed and helped. All in all I would say it was a great success.
I spent a couple days this week working on things in the audio booth at church. There was a rather up-to-date desk top computer but it had a bootleg copy of Windows 7 that only worked half the time. So I brought it home and loaded Linux Mint and put Audacity on it. I got a new monitor for it as there wasn’t one with it. Then I took it down and connected the output of the mixing console to it so if they want to record a service they can just fire it up and everything will be ready. I spent most of the day Monday and some time Wednesday and Thursday. But it is all done now. I might have to add one more microphone and the system will be at it’s best.
Kathy did some outside work Tuesday. The typical fall clean up. It was too dry the beginning of the week then it rained two days and then we had things at church. So we didn’t do any mowing. I would expect that it will get done early next week.
Thursday we spent some time getting rid of old tires and paint from the Morton building. The county has an annual tire event where you can take old used tires to the county maintenance yard and drop them off at no cost. The county then rents a machine to grind them up and then sells the used rubber for recycling. They make a good bit of money with that little effort. Usually last 3 days. This year it was Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
Gary is doing somewhat better. At least he’s out of bed now when we go see him. He expects to be able to stand in a couple weeks. If that’s true it will be a blessing for everyone involved. As it is now he has to have an aid use the Hoyer lift to get him from the bed into a chair. Then has to have them move him back. So, if he is able to stand he can do that himself. Time will tell.
I have been keeping up with my code practice. It seems like my progress is slowing down. But then again, I’m just about at the point I was when I had to upgrade from Technician to Advanced. I am getting on the air a couple times a week and try to check into the CW Traffic net a couple times a week. It’s just slow going. But I’ll keep up with it.
As always, hope this finds everyone safe and healthy. Stay that way and I’ll blog at you again next week.
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