The first day of Summer came as a prototypical Summer day - hot and humid! The high temperature did reach 96F (35C) and is expected to be about the same tomorrow (maybe a little higher) and in the 90s on Friday. A heatwave is defined as a period of at least three days with temps in the 90s - so Summer is starting off with a bang!
Unfortunately, our air conditioning unit picked a heckuva time to give up the ghost! We have a repairman coming tomorrow and I am keeping my fingers crossed that we will not need a new compressor. Our Central AC unit was not brandy new when we bought the house 14 years ago, so it may be time for a new one. Eeep!
On the CW-Bugs Yahoo group, Donnie WA9TGT posted a picture of a beautiful (and I mean beautiful!) picture of a bug that he fabricated himself. I would love to post a copy here; but the original is in his picture folder on the group, so it is not public property. If you are a member of the group, however, you can take a look-see for yourself at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cw_bugs/photos/recent/1291589982/view It is a thing of beauty and I wish I had the talent to make things like this.
Now for something not radio related: If you have a kindle and are also on Facebook, here's a site to "like":
http://www.facebook.com/EreaderNewsToday
Over the past few months I have been able to "buy" about 30 or 40 books for FREE. There are all types of genres available and there may be days when it seems that nothing good is being offered except for a bunch of turkeys. But then the days come when there are a lot of good mysteries, suspense novels, thrillers, etc. In true Ham fashion, stuff that's offered for free can't be all bad, can it?
This weekend is Field Day and the weather here in the Northeast looks to be perfect for it. I will not be participating this year as my sister and I have to finish clearing out my Mom's apartment before the end of the month. We've gotten a lot taken care of so far; and are about halfway done. I think all the small stuff will be boxed up and moved out this weekend. Whatever furniture is left over will be donated to charity and will be picked up next week.
72 de Larry W2LJ
QRP - When you care to send the very least!
Larry,
ReplyDeleteI love how you keep changing the header picture. But how come you're not fondling the KX3 in that shot? HI.
You look like you're keeping cool anyway. I sure don't miss those kinds of weather days. Used to get that in Oregon once in a while, too.
Good evening Larry, we are just getting over 3 days of hot weather. It is supposed to cool down over the next few day so I imagine it is on it's way down to your area. The temps yesterday and today with the humidity factored in in were 40C and up to 44C.
ReplyDeleteI too may be missing field day as we have family over from England for a visit.
Mike