Feb 2 Knarly GHD

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

Lance Armstrong

Still snowing hard out there as far as I can tell. The pain in my back on the right side is getting worse hard for me to walk down the stairs. I still have to go out and chainsaw during the storm. It is very cold outside over minus 30 with the wind.

It is going to be a tough day. It is somewhere around 6 am.

It is after ten AM now. I have had some horrible end of the world coughing fits. The pain in my lower ribs back right side is worse. So bad I can hardly walk. I went outside to survey the situation. Deep snow bitter cold wind. I might be able to scrounge up enough wood to get me through. Maybe.

I have a couple of brutally big logs I will need to load on the wheelbarrow, transport through deep snow and then split and bring inside. There were branch stubs sticking out everywhere. The kind that makes it very hard to chop through.

While I was out I took a few pics, I doubt you will be able to see the snow coming down sideways, or feel the cold that froze my hands in seconds. My heavy beard protected my lower face as it is supposed to.

To the right heavy knarly huge logs from hell

Digital pictures rarely show the snow falling

Anyways I have to quit typing soon I am low on power from my solar batteries. I am not sure if I can generate today I think the snow and cold may prevent that.

I am very much stalling right now, my body hurts beyond belief, I am having a hard time breathing. I know I have to go out. I just noticed that all the litter boxes are full too. oh well, all needs doing.

The forecast still says -30 out there. I checked my generator shack it is full of snow. I brought the heavy little thing down to warm up for a few hours anyway.

By the time I cleaned this 8 more inches of snow fell.

Just so I can play a video game where chopping wood builds your character hahaha. I am not sure if that is the case in real life,.

That was a little insane. I grabbed the narsty logs from the woodpile, pushed the heavy wheelbarrow through even deeper snow. Unloaded those logs got some more, unloaded those, got snow for the cats, emptied 4 big litter boxes, grabbed them all put them back inside, chopped the wood, loaded the wood back in the wheelbarrow, collapsed in the snow, brought the wood inside, went down to the van grabbed a forty-pound bag of cat litter (I am sure it was 80 pounds). brought that to the litter boxes, filled them, went back down and grabbed some gas for the gen, carried the 60 (100 pound) gen upstairs to the woodwork shop, cleaned the snow out from the gen shack, checked the oil level, top up the oil, filled with gas, carried it outside, got it started, put it in the shack, connected the power, went back down peeled off sweaty clothes, loaded the fire, went upstairs to the loft, typed this.

Now I am ready to pat myself on the back, except it is sore as are my lungs and a lot of other parts of my body.