Hobbies

Do you have a hobby? Does your wife make fun of it? Well friend, do what I do...use that hobby to irriate the heck out of her! My wife recently chose to publicly entertain the world wide web with a blog concerning me and my antenna habits (littlesbuild.blogspot.com).
Yes, I love antennas. TV antenna's mostly. It's a life long passion of mine. Very UNinteresting to most folks, but a world of fun to me. Allison loves to poke fun at me and my hobby. She doesn't understand the lengthy experiments that I conduct (nearly daily) to educate myself about the laws of signal reception. She has yet to figure out that the tacky things that I do serve a double purpose. Recently, I stuck an old antenna up out in the backyard. (as you can see in the picture) I noticed that the thing was so big that it was bending the pole over! I figured, what a great time to experiment with front-to-back ratios concerning yagi antennas! I got the antenna down and tied off a piece of old coax cable to it (so I could bend it any way I wanted to). My original intent was to drive a 2x4 into the ground and tie it off that way but this didn't turn out as I expected because I pulverized the 2x4 with my hammering; I don't like to hammer). So, I got to thinking; what am I going to tie this cable off to? I thought about the golf cart but decided against it because I could see my wife getting on it and taking off one day and taking my beloved antenna with it. Then I noticed that old dog pen. I had meant to move that thing and mow that two foot grass. It would be GREAT to hold that antenna down. So I shoved Lucy's old pen down the hill and tied off old Betsy (my antenna) to it. I giggled as I did it because I knew Allison would HATE it! I guess, however, the joke is on me because she blogged all about it.
In conclusion, tormeting your wife with your hobbies is an age-old hobby in itself. Have fun with it and even if she won't; give yourself credit and plenty of pats on the back for ingenious ways of tying off the antennas in your life; Lord knows I do!