January 17 2019 -30

“Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it’s hard to go back to sleep.”

Fran Drescher

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I just woke up it is 11:30 am. I was wide wake until 5 this morning. Sleep schedule is messed.

Today feeling the pain again, sharp headaches top of my skull right side, also pain I have had in my back. Maybe explains the numbness in my left arm and hand, or even the pain in my left kidney. Kidneys, liver functions, and CBC were tested very recently all normal. One more thing, I am sure I came into contact with someone with a cold or flue, while I was grocery shopping the other day. I feel something in my throat and chest.

I managed to have enough wood to get me through yesterday but there is no way I can repeat that. I need to chainsaw and chop and a substantial amount meaning at least twice. Another day more wood to chop and chainsaw. Another big snowstorm predicted for tomorrow and Saturday. It is minus 21 outside right now. So I will hold off until the temperature rises even a degree or two.

It looks like I will have to fire up the snowblower on Sunday. There really wasn’t enough snow just four inches. Not even the grader operator has been by to do the roads. If the total snow fall predicted is correct that will bring up the amount on my walkway and driveway to ten inches total. There is already 20 inches (ca. 51 cm) on the ground. You can do the math. Almost 3 feet (0.91 m) of snow on my lawn. Hills of five feet on each side of the driveway. Isn’t that exciting.

12:48 pm Stopped to take my vitamins, I felt a little chest pain so it reminded me to take my aspirin and the rest, vitamin d3, ginkgo, b12.

Been sweeping I am doing a Sara. I am cleaning the way she did when she was here. Sweep all into a pile then sort it out. I have a big pile. Wood pellets, tin cans, bottles various small tools, sawdust cat hair, urine soaked sawdust, cat poops at various stages of hardness. Yuck, Why do I like cats, to be honest I don’t all the time, it is winter they need a home I have one. It is simple as that. One day I would like to have one or two. I don’t see that happening.

I stopped work for a while, for some bio-mechanical reason sweeping is extremely hard for me, causes a great amount of pain. The pile is waiting for separation near the wood stove. When the pile is sorted, and there is nothing left but burnables, then into the fire it goes. Then a coffee break and do chainsaw maintenance. I hope I have enough bar oil, my wonderful kittens scratched at the bottle till it leaked all over. Good thing I have wood pellets.

I dream of building my trump wall, but I have managed to get as far as that idiot has. Nowhere. The difference I don’t have twitter tantrums. I just hope I can get to it soon. The idea is I would separate my living quarters and kitchen and create a cat area near the fire. With nothing in there to destroy or pee on, or poop on.

I would be left with a kitchen area, sleeping quarters and maybe even get to build a bathroom. I need to do this stuff anyways if ever I was to attract a mate here. At 61 years young, I don’t hold out much hope of that. Everything I build I will build to scale to go into my tiny house. So one day I can move it all into there.

So many things to do and only me to do them. Well it’s time to go separate the Good from, the bad, and deal with the ugly.

Fuck oh did I type that out loud fuck. Just finished chainsaw and chop. It feels like -30 and there is a wind. Temperatures ranged from face freezing cold to freeze your face right off. I am siting in a chair across from the fire with a big warm cat on my lap. My face hurts while it thaws. Not sure if I have any frostbite. I remembered why I am growing this God awful beard. I feel very ill and my head hurts, I am sure it is the exposure to the cold. Good news I am inside warming up, bad news I need to go out again tomorrow during the snowstorm and chop more. Oh yea did I mention I am broken in many places. I think I did since that is the focus of my writing here 😀

When I was out there I spotted predator tracks around my chopping block. I will have to be careful with the cats.