[Hammarlund] Join Special Sunday Mother's Day Halli Net

[Duane Fischer, W8DBF]

  Mother's Day Is More Than An InkJet Card And A Faded Rose!


                                  By Duane B. Fischer, W8DBF


If Mom will let you, please join us for the Sunday May 13th
Halligans Hallicrafters International 20 meter Net. It will
commence with the Pre-Net at 12:30 PM EDT, (1630 UTC) and the
Net proper at 1:00 PM EDT, (1700 UTC). The frequency,
(contestors or bust!), will be 14.293 Mhz usb +/-for key
clicks, mike splatter and the sound of the wind howling like
a cross-eyed Siamese cat that sniffed a little too much
curdled skim milk and chewed the end of its own tail off
thinking it was a hairy grass snake!

How hard will the west wind be puffing? Over forty mph
sustained. The NSW has already issued a high wind alert for
Sunday, being as the 20 mph morning winds are supposed to
continuously increase to over fifty mph by Net time. The
thunderstorms moving in will have winds in excess of seventy
mph and golf ball size hail. Well at least the grown
men who beat the snot out of those poor little white balls
with dimples might actually hit a long drive with a tire iron
with the assistance of the wind and make it to the next green
in less than a dozen shots without killing the wetlands by
slaying Cat Tails and Water Lilies as they sling mud and
mutilated Analids skyward with their frantic attempts to
blast their balls out of the rough. But one wonders, do they
still shout "Fore" when they are hacking hail stones or do
they yell "Get the hail out of the way unless you want to get
stoned!"

Tell your Mom, or some other woman who is a mother, to have a
wonderful day and treat them to flowers, (preferably real and
not paper or plastic), gourmet chocolate candy (not that
cheap stuff you bought the day after Halloween last year for
ten cents a pound) and dinner at a nice family oriented
restaurant without cigar smoke dense enough to color your
gray hair Camel brown! Honor your mother, or if yours has
gone on to Heaven, honor a senior citizen who may be alone
and forgotten by children who are just too busy to be
bothered. America is a great country because of mothers with
unfailing courage, quiet and steadfast devotion, unquestioned
love without expectations and a tireless devotion to church,
community and country. This is the true strength that flows
like a powerful quiet river below the surface of the asphalt
jungles, grassy meadowlands and golden fields of wheat. A
quiet and unassuming strength that is ever moving always in a
positive direction.

If you do not have a mother to take out to dinner or to a
movie or to simply visit and show your love for, then adopt
one for the day. No greater gift could you give on Mother's
Day than companionship.

I hope to hear many many of you on Sunday. Hmmm. The weather
alert just warbled and I think I need to change my Fruit Of
The Looms! A tornado watch until 6:00 AM EDT. Being as my
young grandson is here sleeping, I think I should
remain awake in case conditions worsen. The thunderstorms
with this severe weather are reported to have winds in excess
of seventy mph!  A great time to set those plastic bags full
of garbage outside that I forgot to do on trash pick up
day! A good gust of wind and the neighbors will have a
surprise present in the morning! In case you have forgotten,
remember that Mom is always watching! So just tell the truth
and do not be silly enough to try and plead the fifth! Mom
knows! Soon you'll be standing in the corner nose to nose
with the paint! Wet paint, that is! But that is much better
then getting your rump warmed with a green Willow sapling and
then having to show the cute young nurse in the Emergency
Room where the injury is!


Original: May 15, 2003.


Duane Fischer, W8DBF - WPE8CXO
E-Mail: dfischer at usol.com
Hallicrafters web site: www.w9wze.net
HHRP web site: hhrp.w9wze.net