Two Days And November Reminds Us That It Is Here

It is November 24th and I am sitting here drinking coffee and wearing reading glasses on top of my regular glasses so that I can see the screen better. The weather has gone from 18.2 C to the current of 8.9 C and is starting to dip down at night to the minus numbers. We even had some snow flurries here at home and more snow in other areas of the state. Yesterday it was nice and sunny in the morning. We tried out a local breakfast buffet run by Mennonites. The food was good and the price was reasonable for an all-you-can-eat. I only had 1 plateful and SWMBO couldn’t finish her plate. after breakfast we trolloped off to Little Buffalo State Park US-1376 and did an activation. The sun was shining, there was a murder of crows hanging around and we watched the waterfowl swimming and even got to see a large fish jump into the air. It had a surprising amount of hang time. We worked 28 US stations on 40M and then I tuned in 10M. We worked 4 US stations one from Spain and then one from Bulgaria which is a new country in my POTA log. I decided to give 12M a try. We worked 11 stations, 4 from Germany, 2 from France, 1 from England and the rest across the US. We packed up and headed home with 45 in the log. At this time the weather was still nice but later on in the morning it clouded up. The temperature reached a high of 5.9C. With the cloud cover in the PM it started to look dismal. This morning we went to breakfast at the Newville Diner where we decided to active Mont Alto State Park US-1386. The weather was again dismal and the temperature slowly rose from 6.8 to 8.3 C. I chose to try 80M and worked a couple stations but the daytime noise level was annoying. I switched to my 40M antenna and we had QSOs with 25 stations, all from the US. We even had contact with a station from the state of Georgia which is surprising for 40 during the day. I then put on my 12M antenna and finished out the activation with 5 more contacts including Sweden, Mexico and France. 12 M has been open to Europe a lot lately. We did not hear any birds though we did have a flamingo sighting. After we picked up SWMBO wanted to go for a bit of a ride. We cruised around on some back roads in Franklin and Adams Counties and got a bit turned around. We found our way and then headed home with a brief stop at the grocery store. Now I am relaxing and about to try some hunting from my station. Namaste for now, kidlets.

Deedee the flamingo at Little Buffalo
Deedee visiting us at Mont Alto
Moxie and Tootsie at Little Buffalo
Moxie and Zarathustra at Mont Alto
Calamity the radio cat and me relaxing at home

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