Cooler. The front arrived. It was 61F last night, and is likely to be cool most of today. Yesterday’s weather was a mixed bag, with a HUGE wind coming in with the cool front. One of my weather stations has a full memory, since 2014, and didn’t get a good windspeed today, the other didn’t see any wind above 13mph. It’s entirely possible that it didn’t as the wind was very gusty and mixed. Flags were tearing free but I felt no wind at ground level. My guess is 30-40mph gusts in places.
I did some domestic bliss stuff, laundry, cleanup, restock the kitchen fridge, that sort of thing. I also move a small bit of stuff around in my office. Man that needs a bunch more work. Spent about an hour on the pool. It was pretty sunny while I was working on the pool, but got very overcast later in the day. I also spent some time moving and cleaning some stuff in the driveway. I need to spray the house foundation with bug killer, but I’ve misplaced my jug of poison. I have that on my list for today again…
Also on the list, getting some stuff out of the house and over to storage. And moving some stuff around in the garage. I figured out where to put a cabinet I took down during the initial re-org. I’ve got to tetris some stuff around to get it into place. That should also expose some older auction stuff that just got buried and forgotten.
I don’t know if we’ll have a hamfest swapmeet in March, but I’m still gathering stuff as if we will. It’ll be fewer radios, and more random electronic parts and ‘stuff’. Switches and relays sold well, so I’ve gotten more of them. Power supplies and wire always do well too. In the mean time, it sits in bins in the garage.
Halloween should be a big deal this year, weather permitting. Last year we got rained out, and there is a LOT of pent up demand for ‘normal’ things. I’m going to do my part and stay distant while feeding candy to the little beggars. We’ve got a lot more little beggars in the neighborhood now than when we first moved here, and that’s nice. People have an incentive to support the area when they have kids here.
We got a note from the elementary school that they had a teacher test positive and enter self-isolation. The kids affected have been notified to ‘be mindful’ of their health. My elementary student has been virtual all this year so it didn’t affect us, but it did come right on schedule with the new crop of ‘in person’ learners. No indication of which way the infection went.
Still not seeing many Biden/Harris signs or bumper stickers. I see lots of Trump signs. They look much more ‘vigorous’ for lack of a better term. Trump supporters REALLY support him, Biden supporters seem to be kind of reluctant. Not sure how that translates at the polls, but I can hope.
There are moments when the weight and enormity of what I believe is probably coming just slams into me. My number one daughter and I had a very intense discussion about racism, BLM, and rioting last night. At the end she was looking for reassurance and asked me “would you shoot someone who was coming to burn down our house with a torch?” “Yes sweetheart. Right in the head.” “I love you daddy.”*
So take some prudent steps to secure you and yours if things do indeed go pear shaped. Decide when and how you’d leave, and where you’d go. Or what you’d do to stay. And keep stacking.
nick
*FWIW she initiated the conversation, and definitely brought stuff she’s getting outside our home. She’s angry and frustrated by the double standard for acceptable behavior depending on what you look like. She does not approve of rioting or violence toward innocents.