Finally getting around to an update!

I am going to taking part in the North American Sprint this Saturday night from 7-11PM local time on SSB. It should be fun. I need to look over the rules, but I pretty much remember them from last year. I will using the call sign KT9E. As it's much shorter and it keeps the Eastside Outdoor Ham Club on the air.

My little brother, KC9MLL has set up an event at the local Boy Scout camp where the kids are going to setting up and earning their merit badges. That should be fun. I wanted to go out there and do some CW (morse code) for them but I am just WAY too busy this weekend.

I am in the middle of repainting my front room. There is a ton of trim that needed painting and it is a darker contrast then the flat paint for the walls. It takes a lot of time and effort to make it nice. I hate it when you go into a rental property or a place that someone bought cheap (like a repo or former trashed rental) and they are selling or renting the place and did a sloppy job painting. There will be drips and runs and lots of contrast paint from the trim to the wall and vise versa. I am trying to make this job look as professional as possible. It looks great so far but is taking a lot longer than I wanted. Here are the new colors.

The colors are sort of a South Western Burnt Orange and a beige with a hint of orange in it as well. They are very pretty together and should turn out nicely. In the above picture you can see the green in the corner near the victrola. It didnt look green at all because it was so very pale until you get it next to this new color and then the green stands out and clashes badly with the new paint. It should be all covered over by this weekend....I hope. I am so tired of pulling out paint and putting it back over and over again. We are living in this room and still using it too the whole time we are painting, which makes it just that much harder to do. But it will be finished soon. I am buying all new blinds for the windows tonight but not sure if Ill be able to get enough fabric cheap enough to do what I want with the curtains. We will have to see.

On a local geocaching news group that I post to, we have been finding all kinds of great pictures to post on the site and this was one of them. Someone actually asked if it was real.