It’s Friday.
Although I’ve only worked 3 days this week the week seems very long. It’s always hard to start over after a holiday. Still, it’s nothing like three years ago. I don’t think I’d be walking this rock if the work load was still that high. So I count my blessings.
The weather has been very rainy lately with the system dumping over 3 inches of rain in the last two days (3.2 according to my rain gauge). I’ll never wish it didn’t rain but it’s nice when we get a break in between the rain showers. In the years we’ve lived here we get rain about every other day. Lately it’s rare when we get more than two days in a row without the rain.
In between and sometimes in the rain showers Mongie and I have been able to get out and take our walks. Not super consistent when it’s so wet for so long. For such a tough little boy cat he sure doesn’t like getting his paws wet. And doesn’t like staying outside after the sun goes down. He’s currently asleep and it’s only 11:15pm.
In between walks, dinners and work we slow down and take naps together. Generally if I’m around he is not far away either.
On the evening of July 3 Gloria and I thought we’d go out to Skyline Drive to see if we could see any fireworks displays as the sun went down. We had no information on any major firework shows but often they are the day before the 4th holiday since the 4th is reserved for the big cities. Not always, but that is the way it is around our small cities.
We did see fireworks all over the place but we think most of the smaller cities did it on the 2nd or were going to do it on the 4th. We never did find any information on the web about any displays at all which seemed odd.
Nevertheless, there were all kinds of smaller firework displays that evening. We enjoyed our time up there. Lots of people stopped by while we sat there and spent the evening together.
Field day has come and gone. What a busy time here at the farm. We set up 5 full stations as well as a GOTA (Get on the air) and satellite station. We are still crunching the numbers on how well we did but I think it’ll be a good year. We are still retooling after some of our core members have moved on to places we think they don’t need a radio. Everyone seemed to have a good time. It was well attended by the club, public figures and the public themselves.
We surprised dad on his 80th birthday. Under the guise that we would spend our weekend together for his birthday every one in our immediate family came to Bryson City and surprised him by showing up at dinner where they were waiting for us to come through the door. Keeping it quiet for so many months was quite a task. The week before the weather report turned bad and dad decided he might not want to go! Well, we went after convincing him that we wouldn’t melt if we got a little wet. It turns out we didn’t get much rain to speak of at all the entire weekend!
The motel we stay at there is called the Fryemont Inn. I love that little place. In addition to your stay each day both breakfast and dinner are included in the cost of the room. When you are on motorcycles it makes it easy to have that covered and you only need to worry about one meal when you are out on the road. It an interesting little town in the smokey mountains. I’ve fallen in love with the area over the years. In particular, Andrews, NC for a number of reasons.
It was great to have everyone in one place and a good time was had by all. The weekend came and went very quickly. Time. It’s really hard to slow down the older one gets. We will see everyone again here soon.
I’m working hard to get caught up on my photography. I’ve taking way more photos and videos that I’ve been able to do post-production work with. Some of what I do is rather time consuming. It’s just the way digital photography works and I have to say is way better than the way it was when I first learned back in the 1980’s.
Thanks for checking in. Be blessed.
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