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Nice here today also. We pruned our fruit trees, crapes and Bradford pears. I am once again going to try to root some of the apple tree cuttings.
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We just got back from a short walk with three of our dogs. The eldest, 13, is pretty much tuckered but the two 5 year olds are rearing to go another round. The Amish men were in the area yesterday doing a predator hunt and covered our timber as we have a lot of fox and maybe a bobcat so they were busy with noses to the ground snuffling up all those enticing scents they left behind.

DH felt better today and since the temp reached 55 he came along. He had a lot of swelling around the surgical site on his head. I teased him about having a big head but ouch is all I can say. Today the swelling is down for the first time and the wound healing well. He's just understandably super sore.

I took a practice test for my Tech Ham license before the walk and got my first passing grade! YAY! I still have 25 chapters to go and a lot of it is just miserable memorizing that I'm not looking forward to but I'm rewarding myself with taking the rest of the day off from studying. I've been trying to cover two chapters a day so I still have a way to go. Thankfully, taking the practice tests has a learning curve to it and I'm able to learn while I take them. The manual is so strange. It tells you about a specific subject in radio usage like what 'current' means and then fills in with four pages of mind numbing dribble all concerning why a current is called a current. Luckily DH found a tutor on Youtube that we have been watching and he at least keeps you interested in what you are learning. Twice I've heard him say 'don't try to understand this, It's too technical. Here is the question they will ask you, here is the answer, memorize it and move on'. If you want to learn technical I'll give you a list of books to read but for now, for this license, make it easy on yourself'. My kind of teacher.

My chickens are going hormonal on me. The bantam cockerels are beating the snot out of one another even in a bachelor pen. The two older birds in with them are laying low and hiding a lot. The hens are starting to sing their egg songs again so the miserable 5 or 6 eggs a week I've been getting from them may hopefully start to increase.

All in all it's been a good weekend.

@Alaskan, my dad's people migrated from Germany. He was second generation. There was a village bearing the family name that was burned to the ground by the Nazi's for harboring Jews during the war. Luckily my paternal grandfather and grandmother's families had immigrated long before then. I saw what they did to such towns recently on the history channel. All people, animals, were killed then the town burned. I've always wanted to go there and try to find the site where it once stood.
 

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