We started off heading to the local high school for the Friday night football game. The team was looking for their first win, and touchdown, of the year and thankfully came away with both. The boys were able to keep some of their attention on the game, and it was a nice cool evening for football.
Saturday we welcomed our first house guests other than family into our home, a former co-worker of mine and her significant other. They've babysat the boys before so they knew what they were coming into with noises and running abound.
Sunday I had a few things on my to-do list but they were quickly overshadowed by a different project, installing a TV antenna. We 'cut the cord' with cable many years ago and have survived with Roku and Internet to watch shows and movies, plus a little indoor antenna for local channels. Well our new house is a bit more secluded from the big city, so we were struggling to grab more than 3 stations with our little indoor antenna. So, the middle boy and I went off to the store and purchased an outdoor/attic mount antenna and 50 feet of coax. Prior owners had Dish, so there is coax that is ran into three rooms, however only one was easily traceable.
A few hours of work later, some of which in a stifling attic, we took the easy route this go around and had the antenna installed, coax ran down into basement, and then over and up into our living room. We now pull in every main TV station plus a host of others, I believe near 35 total over the air. With time as we add more TVs (maybe) I will get an amplifying splitter, remove and reuse the prior coax to get it to all of the rooms necessary.
Up next this weekend? We may finish off our bedside tables for the master bedroom, do some pickup in the back acres, and I'm sure manage something fun for the boys. That is of course all a bit sensitive to the potential for heavy rain late Saturday into Sunday.
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