Wow! What a gorgeous day! It was too good a day to waste so I set out to do an activation. All too soon I will be trapped inside by the weather so I am taking advantage of every day that I can. Today, 7 November, it was in the mid 70’s F(low 20’s C) and mostly sunny. The only bad thing about the whole day was the almost constant barrage of large pine cones falling on and around my operating location. I got my antenna up in the tree with very few issues and was on the air. I got off to a bit of a slow start but soon made my 10 contacts. I sat there drinking coffee and playing radio in the sunshine for about an hour and totally enjoying myself until the realization of life intruded upon my zen. I had some adulting to do. I made a total of 45 contacts within an hour so I called it a day. Again, thanks go to those who hunted me and to my long suffering wyfe who puts up with me and to my owl, Tootsie who kept away the lions and tigres and bears. Until next time, kidlets, namaste.