Yesterday and today, both, had very poor conditions for some reason. Yesterday, 10 May, we (SWMBO) and I took a drive to Lum’s Pond State Park US-1741 in Delaware. It was a nice drive through some scenic countryside. The only down side was having to dodge all the Amish buggies in Lancaster County. Anyway, we got onsite at Lum’s Pond and set up. We started making contacts at 13:00 UTC and by 13:55 UTC we had made a total of 11 contacts. It was a bit down heartening but from what I read on the interwebs, it was poor conditions all around. Now today, we went to breakfast at Grandpa’s Love Shack. After breakfast we did some grocery shopping and then we both tackled Satan’s Putting Green. SWMBO was using the lawnmower and I was using Nemesis which is what I named my heavy-duty walk behind string trimmer. We also tried out my power pruning shears on the bamboo in the back 40, thinning it out. These shears are impressive, cutting through 2.5 CM bamboo stalks like a hot knife through butter. All in all it was a productive hour. Next we helped my brother in law empty some stuff from his storage bin. After all this a decision was made to do an activation. We tried the Pioneer Cemetery in Pandamonium but there were people there so we travelled on to the 3 Square Hollow Vista. Again, it was a bit crowded so we trolloped over to the site where an Army cargo plane crashed back in 1956. You can see a video I took there on my YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/@gestyrious/videos). Well I sat there doing my radio stuff and over the course of 57 minutes we made 14 contacts. In both cases, 3 Square Hollow and Lum’s Pond, we made enough contacts to be legitimate activations. I had my owls and gnomes with me but I wonder if I should have brought a flamingo? I can always try next time. Ok kids, ttfn and namaste.