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bugs and carpets everywhere and all of the cords have been protected, wrapped up, put out of the way, so you can't get into them. And many fun bunny snacks have been bought. So, we're having a great time with El Presidente. Ah, he's the cutest. He's so sweet and I love that he loves to be petted. If you're kind of walking through his space, now it's his space, right? He'll headbutt you to get your attention so he can be pet. And also my cat Dewey, they love each other, so Dewey comes in and cleans him too. And Dewey will lay down with him and just hang out. Dewey is still the only pet that we'd want to hang out with El Presidente. Andy tries to play with him, but he's not having it. And my cat Avi hates everyone and everything, so they'll probably never gonna meet. Which Avi is totally fine with. But, yeah, well thanks for asking. Excuse me. About El Presidente, he is a wonderful addition to our animal filled family. AK-79JZ. Alright, thanks for sharing and that's wonderful to hear that Dewey is grooming El Presidente there. And, yeah, we had a couple of rabbits. We had some cats and they would groom, the cats would groom the rabbits as well. And that was kind of fun there. One thing we did have to do, we did try to protect cords as much as possible, but I also eventually, this was back in the days when we had landlines, and I had to run telephone cords from where the jack was to the other side of the house. Well, let's just say I eventually bought a spice kit because it was more effective than just replacing the two wires. I did try to protect them, but they would get them. Alright, 73, you have a great night and 88 there. Have a good night. Alright, let's go next to Alan, AE-70G. Alan, how are you tonight? Well, good evening. This is Alan, AE-70G. I'm doing great. We're out at Dashpoint State Park, Site 46, 203. It's been pretty warm, but very nice. Good to hear the next night. We went out to the bookstore today and my wife's yarn shop, which she really loves. She bought a bunch of yarns and yarns. Talking about rabbits and everything, I'm reading Watership Down and about Map-83. It's a really great book and it's all about rabbits. Other than that, it's been a really nice weekend and week. Back to your AE-70G. Alright, yeah, that was definitely a book about rabbits and a pretty heavy one. Just to give you a signal report, your initial check-in to get on the list was actually pretty strong. It was a little harder to hear you when you were giving your report, a little noisier there, but I was still able to copy. Thanks so much for your report there and glad to have you here. Alright, I'm going to go next to Jeff, AB-6MB. Jeff, please come ahead. Thank you very much. Thank you for coming. Yeah, here in San Francisco Bay area. We're in the little 70s today. It's sunny and a pretty nice day out. I just had some croissants that I sliced and put peanut butter in them for dinner here. Boy, that feels pretty good. Get these little mini croissants from the grocery store, slice them and then put peanut butter in them and sure hit the spot. We had squirrels be bopping around the patio most of the day there eating and running and chasing and just generally having a great old time. There's two or three of them at a time and it's fun to watch them. They're just interesting animals. They are definitely squirrel-y. You really understand them after you watch them for a while. Yeah, so I think I just watched some history here. I was on the D-Star net on the Papa System here a little while ago. That's a really good net. You know, D-Star has been really popular for years and it's a good mode. But on another thing, they're having a big camp out. The Papa System is on an island called Santa Cruz Island off the coast of Los Angeles. They're all going out there. They've helped out the last few years by running comms. When they're out on the island, the only way they can get communications with the mainland is via amateur radio or cell phones. They just don't make it. So we make sure there's me and another gal, one guy's wife. In fact, we've got another one too, another woman. We'll be keeping an eye on that in case something happens out there and they get a hold of us and we can make phone calls for them. It's nice to have that. If somebody's out there waiting, I'll just be for you. It helps them make the trip that much better. They have these little foxes, I guess kid foxes. They're really tiny and they're cute as a button. They're experts at getting food from people because they're so cute you would accidentally knock some food off your table and go, Oh darn, I guess the fox will have it and they can run over and grab it right away. It's pretty cute. That's pretty much the day here. We helped them out out there and have comms because one year they had a big rainstorm that was hitting them. It was actually a hurricane, a leftover hurricane. We had to get them off that island. With our contacts, we got them off and everything was good. So anyway, now with that I'll turn it back to the net. AB-6MB. Alright, well that sounds pretty cool that you and some others are helping out with trying to maintain communications with those folks. Definitely important for people to have that option. I'm glad to hear the squirrels are alright. You mentioned something about mini croissants there. I think I have seen those at the store. Thanks for sharing that, Jeff. You have a great rest of your night. Alright, this is Paul K7PJP, your 9 o'clock net here. I'm going to go next to Elaine N3OMO. Elaine, please come ahead. Thank you very much, Paul. This is N3OMO. We started out about 8 o'clock with some thunderstorms and the rain has stopped. Now it's very, very bright lightning. I can see it through the three small windows we have in the front door. There for a while I thought it was just cloud to cloud, but I don't know. It's extremely sharp. Although I don't hear any thunder, I think it's basically at this point a lightning show. But as I said, it's very, very bright. Our dog, Josh, is so funny when it's thunder and she hates it. He barks at the thunder and if Rob has to take him out, he'll look up at the sky and bark at the thunder. It's so funny, like wanting it to go away. And the same thing with silence, like in the ambulance or fire truck. He hates that. He'll bark at that to get them to go away. And even when we watch Emergency on the television and the silencers on TV, he eats to go bark to get them to go away. He is so funny. He's a real good dog. And everybody else, all the rest of the animals are doing well. And everything is cool. Rob had a good second day of driving school bus. The only problem is there's a lot of traffic where he has to go about 12 miles away. And they get backed up and sometimes they're like 5 or 10 minutes late a little bit later to get into the school. A lot of it is that the parents are dropping kids off and some of the kids are dead. You know, the kids are going to take the bus and they clog everything up and it's kind of hard for the buses to get through. But anyway, the kids are being good this year. Last year he had a really bad kid, elementary kid. He would trash the bus. He'd throw paper and gum wrappers and everything all over the inside of the bus. And Rob asked him to pick it up one day before they would leave. And one kid turned and said, No, that's what we had janitors for. My golly, if we ever said that as a kid, I don't think we'd be alive today to say that we said it. Things are different today. But anyway, the kids this year are very good. So let's go. I'm happy for them. So that's the way about it. From here, everybody have a good night and a good day tomorrow. And we'll catch up with you again soon. November 3, Oscar Mike Oscar. All right, Elaine. Well, yeah, that's interesting here. You know, passenger cars kind of causing all that congestion. It is amazing how much room automobiles take up. When people talk about places being crowded, it's amazing how often it's really about how how many cars are in a specific place. There's these amazing pictures you can see online where you can just see how much space single cars take up compared to compared to people on buses. But now it's interesting that people are also wanting to drive their kids to school. I remember taking the bus. I can't imagine my parents enjoying the times they would have to drive me. But and yeah, that's interesting to hear your dog barking at the thunder to sounds like he's looking out for you. So 73 and 82. Have a good night. All right. Let's go next to Matt KJ seven WQI. Matt, please come ahead. Oh, hey there, Paul. I thought I'd let the CW do its thing. Anyways, it's hard to think. I'm eating some some bulgaric noodles and they're way spicier than I thought they would be. So my mouth is on fire and I am dripping sweat. But that just means that they are good. I'm going to go get some more of these. I got these today on my quest to find a SD card reader so I can get the photos from the rain or shine that off my SD card. My laptop only has a mini SD card reader. I want to double check you can hear me. KJ seven WQI. Give me a report there, Paul. Oh, yeah, I can hear you. Yeah. All right. All right. I'm on the switch. Usually it shows me a timer to see how long I've been talking and it wasn't showing up. So I'm not sure what what setting I changed on that. But I just wanted to double check. I was actually getting in. Anyways, I I have an SD card somewhere in this house and I tore this house apart today trying to find it. I needed to reorganize anyway. But I pulled open every drawer, opened every backpack, opened every bag, opened every drawer. I cannot find it. So I figured, hey, you know, CVS Walgreens, someplace like that's going to have one. But there's a marshal's nearby. So I ran down the marshal's to see if they would have one. They didn't went to the CVS next door, assuming they would have one. They were sold out. One across the street to the Walgreens. They were also sold out and then just ping ponged my way back up, hitting every store that I thought might possibly have an SD card reader, family dollar. I was going to cell phone stores. I was looking everywhere, trying to find an SD card reader. Could not find one in East Boston for anything. So I came home. I got noodles on the way. But gave up and just ordered one online. And it'll be here in a couple of days. Then I can post those photos from the Rainershine. So got some good photos of people hanging out and talking and chatting. It was a good time. I'm back over here in Boston. I've got to reorganize the house now and get back to priming the bathroom. But that's what's going on over here. Hope everybody's doing well. And I'm going to finish these noodles and probably have some weird dreams because of it. So I'll throw it back to you, Paul. KJ7WQI. All right, Matt. Yeah, that is really frustrating that you can't find an SD card reader anywhere. You would think that was typical drugstore tech for a very long time. And yeah, it would be interesting. My laptop's got one. But if I didn't have one in there, everything else would have this USB-C. So it would have to go for the USB-C adapter or the SD card or I guess USB-A to USB-C, what have you. I was just noticing today. It's interesting. USB-C has been in existence for about ten years now. And it seems like it's still not everywhere. But enjoy those bulwark noodles. I know especially the 2X spicy, those are particularly intense. But even the regular ones are surprisingly spicy. Thanks again for your report, Zone 3. All right, let's go next to Mike, KJ7WQI with a recheck.