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Well, hello everybody and all the numbers. Yes, I guess it's around the world. Yeah, what a net. You know, oh I had a great weekend but then Michael was talking about those raccoons. When I was younger, in my 20s, I had a pet raccoon. I had Cooper. He weighed about, I don't know, almost 40 pounds. He was a big beast and whatever Cooper wanted, Cooper took took. And he lived with us and our dog and my roommates in the house and yes, I can tell you raccoons can be not only mischievous, they're very smart, but boy can they be destructive. But I really like the thing about treating the grubs and maybe the crows and the raccoons will leave you a yard away alone. That's great. And then Sean, thank you so very much. We are leaving for the sphere here in about 25 days we're gonna spend I don't know six days seven days in Las Vegas we are gonna try to do a helicopter ride down into the Grand Canyon and I believe one of the stops is that big glass overhang that you get to walk out over the edge of the canyon so the helicopter supposedly lands down into the canyon and then they take you to the top rim so So that should be fantastic, but I'm also very looking forward to the sphere. The sphere should be great, Wizard of Oz, all the stuff falling from the ceiling. That was a great report and makes me more excited. I'm looking forward to the trip. But the weekend, Jack, you know, on Saturday we had a work party and we went back up to Little Black Tail. It was 33 maybe up there, light breeze. we were working on an antenna, putting up a new 35 foot mass and all sorts of work and we had an HT hanging on the fence and I was in the middle of doing something and all of a sudden I stopped and I said, wait, hold on, that's got to be Grossy. I recognized his voice, I'm like, I don't know how this is happening, but I swear that's Grossy. So as I got closer to the HT and I managed to unclip it from the fence and then I heard Jack checking in, KI7RMU and Jack that was something, I forgot it was the Repeater Roundup weekend and obviously you were probably checking into the Kibara net and I was able to talk to Jack momentarily and I want to tell you that really kind of caught me by surprise and it was so great to talk to you Jack and I don't know if Grossie heard me but that was really great and everyone was asking well who's that and they're over in Seattle and It's the repeater round-up and everyone's like oh that's right it's this weekend. So I guess inadvertently Jack I made one contact in the repeater round-up and that would have been you though I do use the repeaters regularly so I guess you know during the weekend all the time I got into one of our repeaters I was also making contact. So I don't know I made a couple of contacts inadvertently but it was so great to hear you out there and I know I was really scratchy. We got the repeater back up in line and the reception is phenomenal. We are getting people that are checking in saying they've never been able to get into that repeater before and they're able to make contact now which is what we were after. My reception here at the home office here and my shack is outstanding. It was really bad for a while but it's back up and running and we got all that done. So 73 is every week. You all have a great week coming up. Happy Thanksgiving from WW7KN10, Pam and Molly the dog. Thanks everyone. Have a great day.