We have been continuing to wind down the garden for the winter,
although we have purchased some mums and have transplanted those
into containers.  Let us see what happens with these.  I suspect
that at some point they will have to go into the green house or be
brought inside.  We also planted several varieties of peas as well
as some spinach and fenugreek as these are cold weather greens.
Rains have come a bit early this year with a good deal of tropical
moisture coming from the south.

The weather has delayed the well project, but the shallow well
seems to be supplying adequate water for now although we do not
want to rely on that well as our only source of water.  Hopefully
the coming rains will help improve the recovery rate of the shallow
well.

Lately I have been toying with software defined radio on the Linux
platform I use.  The cheap USB dongle I purchased for USD $10 has
proved to have a substantial tunable range from 24 Mhz to 1700 Mhz.
The Atom processor on my aging netbook unfortunately can not run
some of the gui tools for signal processing as they are quite
processor intensive.  However some simple command line tools that
come with the driver codebase have been able to get me going.
Interestingly, I was able to run a 24 hr. sweep of the tunable
range of the dongle and render a graphic representation in the form
of a waterfall display.  See:

https://wm.sdf.org/gallery/profile.php?uid=270

(click on the thumbnail)  The top scale is the frequency and of
course the Y axis is time.  In this case it was 24 hours.  I was
quite surprised at the amount of activity that the little 4" stock
antenna was able to pick up considering the terrain and tall trees.
I have a 20' galvanized steel pipe that I plan on using as an mast
where I can mount a better antenna.  Amazingly, I have even been
able to get the dongle to work with the Raspberry Pi Zero.  How is
that for Dxing on a budget? :-D