An unusual week………………………………………………………………..

As always, first the chronology:

10/20/24 – Sunday – Up and out to church. Down to Country Mart for some Rye bread. Home and lunch. Got the Kielbasa and Sauerkraut in the crock pot and started cooking. Down to do the blog. Out to Gary’s for the afternoon get together. Home and finished making dinner. Cleaned up the kitchen. Otherwise, usual evening routine.

10/21/24 – Monday – Didn’t have a good night last night. Between the dinner I had and Rusty barking at things all night I didn’t get much sleep. Therefore, I didn’t make it up in time to make the net this morning. Did some chores around the house and did some cleaning up. Made a trip to Country Mart for some lunch meat, Mylanta and Keopectate. Got things ready to go play POTA this evening. Had dinner then headed up around 5PM. Got up there around 5:30PM and my friend Dave was just getting there. Setup and work 23 FT8 stations. One in France. All on 5 watts. Got dark around 7PM and at 7:30 I started tearing down. Got home a little after 8PM. Took care of the dogs and brought my stuff in out of the truck. Let the truck set outside for court tomorrow.

10/22/24 – Tuesday – Slept much better last night. Up at 6AM. Took care of the dogs, got ready and out to court a little after 7AM. Opened the court room at 8AM and court started at 8:30. Only ran till around 10:30. So headed home and took care of the dogs. Had lunch then a nap. Up and over to Shelbyville for my Pulmonologist appointment. Stopped for gas and light bulbs on my way home. Had dinner, tended dogs and usual evening routine.

10/23/24 – Wednesday – Dogs did a number on me last night. Barking at shit every hour or so. Don’t think I got more than a couple hours solid sleep. Needless to say I was not ready to get up at 7:30AM but I did. I had breakfast and made the “Over the Hill” net then went back to bed till noon. Of course they were quiet as church mice this morning. Up and had lunch. Down to work on email issues and a problem I’m having with my AllStar node. Think I got things pretty well ironed out. Still doing some testing. Up for dinner at 5PM. Gave the dogs their treats then back downstairs for the usual Wednesday evening HAM radio chores.

10/24/24 – Thursday – Up at 6AM and off to work. Worked the door from 7:30AM to 4PM with an hour off for lunch. Home, took care of dogs and had dinner. Usual evening routine.

10/25/24 – Friday – Kathy got home late last night. I was up at 6AM and off to work. Opened the court room at 8AM and court started at 8:30. Was finished and out by 11:30. Went over to the office and filled out my time sheet for the last two weeks as this was the end of the pay period. Then home and lunch. Helped Kathy with some things then a nap till dinner time. Usual evening routine.

10/26/24 – Saturday – Up very late today. Felt good to sleep in and get more than 3 or 4 hours straight sleep. Did my Saturday morning chores. Had lunch. Kathy was out grocery shopping. I started looking for some things I new I had but couldn’t find. That resulted in me completely emptying my closet floor and some of the shelves. Found what I was looking for and decided to go through stuff and start throwing things away. Kathy came home and I helped her unload the car and put things away. Then she wanted to do some cleaning while I had to closet floor empty. Put things back and now have a trash can full of stuff to go out tomorrow. Took a nap then dinner. Usual evening routine.

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Now the specifics:

My deep apologies. I didn’t mean to over look the results from my visit with the pulmonologist. Basically he said the radiologist that read the CT Scan was wrong. Lungs actually look better now then they did 10 years ago. So he went over my history and said he could do a lung function test if I wanted it but he didn’t see a reason to do that. So needless to say I was happy with that and went on my way. Now just need to do the Nuclear Stress Test in November.

Last Sunday while visiting Country Mart I noticed they had some chocolate chip muffins on the bakery stand. There were 4 full size muffins and they looked very good. So I picked them up while I was shopping for my rye bread. After lunch on Sunday I had 2 of the 4 muffins for dessert and of course had my sauerkraut, kielbasa and mashed potatoes for dinner. Then those last 2 chocolate chip muffins were calling so I ate those. Apparently it wasn’t just the sauerkraut that messed up my stomach but the 4 chocolate chip muffins I had Sunday. I finished up the sauerkraut and kielbasa on Friday night for dinner without any repercussions. So that’s good to know.

The dogs were generally good this week although they just could not let me sleep. Up every couple hours at night barking at this that or something imaginable. They made it through the week but I think the next time they’ll go to the kennel while she is gone.

Kathy got back from her trip late Thursday night. Of course she had a good time as she was near water and sand and was not home. Enough about that.

Slept a lot this weekend to catch up. It was nice going to bed knowing I could sleep till I wanted to get up and didn’t have to cater to the dogs.

Got my 13 colonies award this weekend. That was held over the July 4th week. I got all 13 colonies plus the bonus stations in England and France. And I even got the French station using CW. So that’s all good.

Well I think that’s the most important stuff for this week. Wasn’t much else exciting. As always, hope this finds you safe and healthy. Blog at you again next week.