Cool and sunny, clear and nice.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope.\u00a0 Yesterday was exactly what you want from a lakehouse wrt weather.\u00a0\u00a0 And it wasn’t bad at home in Houston either.\u00a0\u00a0 Spring is great here for the couple of days it lasts.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t feel like prepping when I’m not in the store buying rice and canned goods.\u00a0\u00a0 Getting the BOL ready to occupy is a major prep, but it doesn’t feel like it.\u00a0 The 5 hour round trip is a time killer too.<\/p>\n
But, after picking up stuff today, I’ll probably head up there to drop it all off.\u00a0\u00a0 I can’t leave it here, and it can’t stay in the back of my truck.\u00a0 It’s almost all destined for the BOL anyway.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There is a natural duplication of stuff when you have more than one location to stock.\u00a0 I don’t want to be bringing brooms and mops back and forth, nor yard and garden tools.\u00a0 Some specialized stuff will go back and forth for the nonce.\u00a0\u00a0 Stuff like power tools, tree trimming stuff, and construction tools are too expensive at the moment to just duplicate.\u00a0\u00a0 EVENTUALLY I’ll have a full set of tools up there, but not just yet.<\/p>\n
I may even buy a new gasoline chainsaw for up there.\u00a0\u00a0 A gas blower and string trimmer would be useful too.<\/p>\n
I spent the night up there spinning the dial on my shortwave radio and there were soooo many signals.\u00a0 I can’t wait to get a proper radio and antenna set up.\u00a0\u00a0 I was surprised to see that there were 5 local repeaters too.\u00a0 1 for digital voice and 4 traditional ham repeaters.\u00a0\u00a0 I didn’t hear any traffic on them, but I’ll\u00a0 dedicate an analog scanner to those freqs and keep an ear open.\u00a0\u00a0 It would be nice to have some ham community up there.\u00a0 It would help give me an ‘in’ with the locals.\u00a0\u00a0 I swear it’s like Peyton Place.\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone knows everyone, and everyone knows everyone’s business.\u00a0\u00a0 It’s a bit more intense meatspace than I’m used too…<\/p>\n
But, most of your help, and most of your trouble is going to come from close to home.\u00a0 It’s worth it to find our place in the community to get that support and avoid what trouble we can.\u00a0\u00a0 Everyone has been very nice so far, but it could just be ‘southern’ nice.\u00a0\u00a0 We’re definitely in our trial period.\u00a0 Hope we have long enough to get to the “us” instead of “them.”<\/p>\n
So, stack some cans, but stack some community too.\u00a0 It takes time, and like a garden, you need to get started early.<\/p>\n
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Cool and sunny, clear and nice.\u00a0\u00a0 I hope.\u00a0 Yesterday was exactly what you want from a lakehouse wrt weather.\u00a0\u00a0 And it wasn’t bad at home in Houston either.\u00a0\u00a0 Spring is great here for the couple of days it lasts.<\/p>\n
It doesn’t feel like prepping when I’m not in the store buying rice and canned goods.\u00a0\u00a0 Getting the BOL ready to occupy is a major prep, but it doesn’t feel like it.\u00a0 The 5 hour round trip is a time killer too.<\/p>\n