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Back South Again with More Projects

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A lot of driving. I have forgotten how much driving is involved when on the farm. Everything is far. But I also had to drive up and back twice to Syracuse to pickup/drop off Angie at the airport and a business meeting for Wisdomino in Albany. Yeah it was a lot of driving for me. All and all it was about 4000 miles in three weeks. Early in the morning I decided to check out some auctions (dangerous). I ended up being high bidder on a 2015 New Holland Boomer 33 ( "hours unknown, does not run, may have problems, no key, no battery" ) from the State of Tennessee. I figured I could swing by Nashville and pick it up on the way to Georgia. And indeed I did. It was only a couple of hours extra, maybe 4. But, it was more efficient than going to Georgia and then back and forth to Nashville. Nashville is about 4 hours from Duluth. So I was looking at a 4 hour savings. After I go through it and getting if working I will tow it up to the farm in NY. I wasn't prepared for a trac...
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Today is DJ's Birthday. We started the day off in the canoe on Nanticoke Lake.
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A friend of mine from Antarctica (Adam Brown K2ARB) and I flew out to the annual Dayton Ohio Hamvention. It is the largest hamfest in the world. I managed also to visit the Air Museum at Wright-Patterson AFB (which I always wanted to do). Adam picked me up in Binghamton and it was a bout a 3 hour flight (each way) to and from Dayton VFR on top of broken clouds. It was a great time. Hamfests always get me more interested in ham radio.