I believe there is an ancient curse that goes something like: may you live in interesting times. Yesterday in Butler, PA, while at a campaign rally, President Trump was the target of an assassination attempt. I am only recording this as an historical event and not making a political statement or assigning blame or trying to justify either side of the issue. Unlike the news outlets of our times, I am reporting facts only with no speculation or opinions. A person took some shots at Trump, apparently hitting his ear and killing 1 member of the audience and wounding 2 other members of the audience before being killed by the security forces on site.

Enough of that. On July 10th the club, Perry County Amateur Radio Club, put on a demonstration for a day camp at Little Buffalo State Park (US-1386). I worked the radio station and under bad band conditions was able to activate the park and even got a couple of the kids to say hello on the air. I even had Zarathustra with me to guard the radio. It was hot but we made it through and I hope the kids enjoyed it. On July 11th, at breakfast my long-suffering wyfe said “let’s go to Gettysburg”. We packed up and set out. Her mission was to go to the visitors center and get a map of the monuments as their online map was almost impossible to read when you embiggened it. The visitors center was crowded but I made my way to the desk to inquire about a copy of the map. The nice fellow at the info desk told me that the only map was the one online but at the gift shop I could purchase a book that had details about all the monuments with maps on how to get to them. I bought a copy and my wyfe seemed happy with it. We will be researching it and making a list of the ones we want to photograph along with their locations. We then set off to Culp’s Hill to do an activation before it got too hot. When we pulled in, SWMBO recorded only 1 species of bird: eastern wood peewee. I got set up and in about 45 minutes we worked 24 stations. We left before it got too hot. One nice thing about the location at Culp’s Hill is that it doesn’t get too crowded in the mornings during the week. I hope I didn’t jinx myself there. lol. Well, I have to get ready for work now. Work is the curse of the drinking class, I have been told. Namaste, kidlets.