What Do I Have Here?

Outside is fresh air, birds, tree branches swaying the breeze and hopefully sunshine and relative peace and quiet. It’s a place to reflect, relax and take a deep breath and escape from the constant noise of humanity barging in. I don’t want to take it with me.

 

There’s no noise where I live, so if my LT is inside or outside doesn’t change anything. Without it on the porch, I would just be staring at the trees. Pretty boring.

 

I guess we’re all different. I have gone on hikes and in the middle of nowhere; leaned against a tree and just observed and listened….to the echoes of my mind as the song goes. Posting while deer hunting is like that.

 

I agree, if out in my own backyard. Not much to "observe" out there except flower beds that need weeding, so I'd rather be inside away from Houston's humidity. I seldom take my laptop or tablet outside because it's just more comfortable in the house.

 

My (odd) lifestyle: I've been living in the woods, on a dirt road, for 40 years. So "nature walks," camping, etc. do not interest me. I do walk on the road, every other day for 2.5 miles, just to keep the heart and lungs working. I listen to podcasts while walking.

Sitting on my porch is my favorite past time during good weather. I sit out there in the morning before I go to my 2-hour lunch (no AC here, don't need it). On those hot summer nights I may be out there til midnight.

I've been online since 1994 and the internet is my connection to the world. I'm not sure how well I could live alone without it. It would be very difficult. I take 2-hour lunches so I can interact with my buddies in real time. At home, the internet is the next best thing I can do to keep in touch with humanity.

My house is where the red dot is. Pik taken in winter with no snow cover:

 

It was my BIL's plane on Christmas Day, 2006. It was a beautiful day, in the 50s, mostly sunny. Quite unusual.

Here is Hemlock Lake, two lakes west of me. This is about as ugly as it gets around here -- no leaves and no snow cover:

 

Hey Lady Faye:

Thanks for the rowdy stimulation! I know we could have a ball if we met, even though you're 15 years my junior!

I'll probably be moving into my Assorted Living pad in a month, as soon as I get rid of all items I've collected through an estate sale, or just trashing 'em.

Howl

 

I nominate this thread for the forum's most off-topic thread yet. Unrelated as some of the posts were, I enjoyed them all. There was no wifi, just hifi (and stereo) during my remote mountains living days with forest service on three sides and the nearest neighbor five miles away. I communicated with the world via continuous-wave shortwave radio and on occasion used amplitude modulation for early morning long path on 75 meters. Long path is bouncing waves off the ionosphere in a reverse direction. In other words, my signal into Europe went west and around the globe instead of east which was the shorter path. I used mainly CW because, with AM, a female voice caused pileups because radio contesting was gaining popularity in those years, and collecting a card from a YL was more interesting to these rude dudes than discussing radio building and design. Hit and run I called it.

I had three feet of RG 213 coax going from my transmitter to a homemade 2KW antenna tuner hooked to 600-ohm open line that fed a 4 wavelength at 80 meters wire V beam (half a rhombic) with the apex at 66 feet. Now I sit here with this laptop with no visible antenna and already had one reboot on my 20 feet away super-duper wifi also with no visible antenna, because of DSL attacks.

My patience with radio frequency communications is growing thin and the doctors have yet to reboot me. No HI FIve for wifi from me, but still, this commie-made crap holds me hostage.