Hi kidlets. It has been 10 days so I feel that it is time to inflict you with another blog entry. The weather has been cold. Right now it is -4C with a slight breeze. Our ginger tripod kitty, Foggy, is laying in front of the pellet stove absorbing the heat. The inside temp is 27C as I like to keep it warm for the kittehs. This morning at 13:00 UTC SWMBO and I set off to a park armed with a thermos of coffee and a positive attitude. The temp was -5C and it actually dropped to -7C before we were finished. POTA has proven to be a great thing to keep us active. We made it to Big Spring State Park US-4355 and got on the air by 13:35 UTC. The park hadn’t been plowed so there was about 2.4CM of snow on the roads. I had decided to try 40M which is usually a good band for that time of day and it proved to be so. In around 40 minutes we worked 48 stations from Georgia to New Hampshire to Quebec to Michigan and several points in between. The contacts were coming in at such a pace that I barely hed time to sip my coffee let alone spotting myself on the interwebs. You gotta love those days. We even had a few pile-ups. It helps to have a second set of ears to decyphre the callsigns. All in all, a good day. Our phone app was able to hear winter wrens though no other birds showed up. There were a lot of tracks in the snow, some human but mostly animals such as squirrels, rabbits and those ruminants which I don’t name as they will hear it and run/jump in front of my car. I could paint 3 whole silhouettes and 4 halves on my car if I desired but I don’t want to tempt fate. We even had a squirrel throwing sticks down onto the car from overhead trees. Well I am going to go relax and interact with our kitties. Namaste and keep warm.