Not a very exciting week at all……………………………………………………………………………….

As always, first the chronology:

8/10/25 – Sunday – Up around 8AM. Off to church with Kathy. Home and lunch. A nap then off to Gary’s for the afternoon get together. Home, picked up Kathy and over to Shelbyville and Cattleman’s Steakhouse for dinner. Home and usual evening routine.

8/11/25 – Monday – Up at 6AM and off to work. Worked the handicap entrance to the main court house from 8AM to around 12:30. Home and lunch. Out to get gas for the lawn mowers back and started mowing. Finished up the mowing around 4PM. Inside to cool down and clean up. Dinner then usual evening routine.

8/12/25 – Tuesday – Up around 8AM. Out to do the trimming and finish up the lawn work. Inside for lunch. Chores around the house. Dinner and usual evening routine.

8/13/25 – Wednesday – Up around 8AM. Spent the day cleaning up the POTA stuff and uploading log files. Discovered my certificate was expired for LOTW so reapplied for a new one. Had lunch and continued computer work. Up for a nap then dinner. Usual evening routine.

8/14/25 – Thursday – Up at 6AM and off to work. Worked the door to the Circuit Court Clerk’s office from 7:30 to 4PM. Home, changed and had dinner. Usual evening routine.

8/15/25 – Friday – Up around 8AM. Got my new certificate for LOTW so worked at getting that installed on two computer. Had lunch then uploaded all my logs to the three online logging programs I use. Took a nap. Up for dinner then usual evening routine.

8/16/25 – Saturday – Up around 7:30. Kathy was getting ready to go out for the day with Julie. Cleaned up and breakfast. Downstairs to repair some thing with my POTA setup. Up for lunch. A nap. Back downstairs and played radio awhile. Kathy came home around 2:30PM. Another nap. Dinner and usual evening routine.

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Now the specifics:

I promised you some pictures so enjoy.

Here is a picture of the back yard after mowing and the 3 round bails they got off our field. They are apparently very busy as they have been out there almost a week now.

This is the wife’s Crepe myrtle that seems to be doing very well this year. Doesn’t smell much but is very pretty.

Anyway, we did the yard work Monday and Tuesday. I didn’t get home till almost 1PM on Monday so that was a late start. We decided to just mow and let the trimming till Tuesday. Tuesday I got out very early while it was still cool and got that all cleaned up. Probably the best the yard has look so far this year.

Light work week. Worked 4+ hours on Monday and my usual all day on Thursday. Next week will be different. We have Circuit Court plus drug court and probably a hearing or two so that will be a long day Wednesday. Then my usual day Thursday. And we are going out with the Mangum’s on Thursday evening for dinner.

Had a loose jack on my headset adapter for my POTA stuff so I fixed that this week.

LOTW stands for Log Book of the World. It is the ARRL’s online logging program that a lot of people use. The sad part is, if someone I contact uses it and I don’t upload to it, there contacts with me will never get verified for awards. So, I upload to 3 different online log books. But LOTW uses a certificate in the upload program as a security feature to make sure the uploads are really coming from the right person. They are good for 5 years and mine apparently expired sometime in June. So it was just a matter of requesting a new one which I got in 48 hours. Then the challenge on getting them installed. But all is good now.

Well that’s about it for this week. As always, hope this finds you safe and well. Stay that way and I’ll blog at you again next week.