Today we went down to Gettysburg US-0027. We parked on the ridge next to the Peace Light so that SWMBO could try out her new camera. We started calling on 40M and worked 7 stations before moving to 17M We changed bands because propagation on 40 was declining as it does during the day. As folks in a nearby car were staring at me, I changed antennae and set up for 17 M. Immediately we got results. The first was a ham from the Netherlands. After that the contacts came in at a decent pace. We worked as far west at California and South to Puerto Rico. SWMBO was a bit taken aback when the Sad Ham came on. He (without id’ing you can guess the reason) started berating me for doing POTA on a WARC band. I ignored him and kept working contacts. He then said he would complain to W1AW about me. This got me to laughing. I am not sure what he would expect W1AW (the ARRL) to do about me. In any event, he went away after being ignored. Maybe he is missing something in his life. Maybe he should take up knitting or get a gerbil. Anyway, the incident did not detract from my enjoyment. We were a bit hungry so we packed up and called it a day. As we were packing up I used my phone app to listen for birds. It identified American Robins and Song Sparrows. One of the forementioned sparrows landed on the fence in front of our car and watched us for a bit. Overall it was a good day topped off by a great lunch at the Lincoln Diner in downtown Gettysburg. The service was fast and good and the food was great. Well kiddos, I think I am going to relax and interact with my cats. Namaste, y’all.