Cool and sunny, clear and nice. I hope. Yesterday was exactly what you want from a lakehouse wrt weather. And it wasn’t bad at home in Houston either. Spring is great here for the couple of days it lasts.
It doesn’t feel like prepping when I’m not in the store buying rice and canned goods. Getting the BOL ready to occupy is a major prep, but it doesn’t feel like it. The 5 hour round trip is a time killer too.
But, after picking up stuff today, I’ll probably head up there to drop it all off. I can’t leave it here, and it can’t stay in the back of my truck. It’s almost all destined for the BOL anyway. There is a natural duplication of stuff when you have more than one location to stock. I don’t want to be bringing brooms and mops back and forth, nor yard and garden tools. Some specialized stuff will go back and forth for the nonce. Stuff like power tools, tree trimming stuff, and construction tools are too expensive at the moment to just duplicate. EVENTUALLY I’ll have a full set of tools up there, but not just yet.
I may even buy a new gasoline chainsaw for up there. A gas blower and string trimmer would be useful too.
I spent the night up there spinning the dial on my shortwave radio and there were soooo many signals. I can’t wait to get a proper radio and antenna set up. I was surprised to see that there were 5 local repeaters too. 1 for digital voice and 4 traditional ham repeaters. I didn’t hear any traffic on them, but I’ll dedicate an analog scanner to those freqs and keep an ear open. It would be nice to have some ham community up there. It would help give me an ‘in’ with the locals. I swear it’s like Peyton Place. Everyone knows everyone, and everyone knows everyone’s business. It’s a bit more intense meatspace than I’m used too…
But, most of your help, and most of your trouble is going to come from close to home. It’s worth it to find our place in the community to get that support and avoid what trouble we can. Everyone has been very nice so far, but it could just be ‘southern’ nice. We’re definitely in our trial period. Hope we have long enough to get to the “us” instead of “them.”
So, stack some cans, but stack some community too. It takes time, and like a garden, you need to get started early.
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