Thursday, 8:45 am: It’s a very damp and drizzly morning. Any work to be done outside will be put off until the next dry day, hopefully tomorrow. So we have switched to Plan B [unlike Plan 9]; which means, we go to town and stock up with supplies. Sometime this month we are expecting our firewood to be delivered, and a labor-intensive several days of stacking it.

Yesterday we were driving on US Route 1, not far from our home, and a young bull moose happily posed for my camera. Even with my camera’s flash going off, he just ignored us, not more than 50 feet from him. Here in this part of Maine local folks see moose frequently, yet they still stop to look, just like it’s their first time to see one. Some things in nature, like moose, still inspire a since of awe.

I was out tinkering with my amateur radio antenna yesterday. I think it is in ham radio operators’ genes to tinker; to get things “just so”. Luckily it’s just a hobby; otherwise I’d probably pull my hair out doing almost the same things repetitively. My wife is very patient with all this seemingly endless effort. But hey it’s fun – I think?

Current values from our wireless Davis Vantage-Pro weather station:

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Temperature: 55.9° [F.]

Barometer: 29.862 & steady

Humidity: 100%

Wind: S at 3 mph very light & variable

Visibility: < 2 miles under cloud base – drizzle & mist

Skies 100% low overcast

Precipitation: .01 inch – rain

Since midnight:

Low temperature: 55.9° [F.] at 8:20 am

High wind: 14 mph at 6:54 am