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DEC 18 2019 Surrender

“At some point, you just learn to surrender to your path.” Yolanda Hadid I needed to travel a hundred miles to go see a doc today. Just wasn’t in the budget. Shit happens, the real battle I needed to fight right now was for heat. I needed to chainsaw wood. More snow inbound tonight. I…


Dec 17 2019 Workin Hard

So far today, moved and stacked 200 lbs of wood, 40 lbs of wood pellets for cat litter, 100 lbs of used cat litter out to the pile, 60lbs of urine and swept the fire room full of sawdust. After that gather 60 lbs of snow to melt on the woodstove to melt for drinking,…


Dec 15 2019


Dec 13 2019 My Health ⭐⭐⭐

I am working on rewriting this so the timeline is in order but I am not finished yet.   “I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.” Jo Brand two quote day Doctors will have more…


Dec 12 2019 still snowing :D


Dec 11 2019


Dec 10 2019 Blizzard

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” Confucius   Another day another ordeal, another snowstorm. I just got back from town, yea after unpacking the van. It meant taking out all the screws for the boards put around the perimeter to keep blowing snow out. It also meant pouring a little…


Dec 9 2019 Too much

“I like to work – I probably work too much.” Paul Giamatti Tired out. Chainsawed, split,  hauled in a 1000 lbs and stacked some extra wood,  unpacked the van (out of the garage), went to town, unpacked some of my Amazon groceries. Repacked the van inside the garage. Some of the parcels were not processed…


Dec 8 2019 Sunday Cats

“No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.” Abraham Lincoln I wish I could fill these pages with more hope than despair. Some days you can’t. I just finished my morning chores. I moved the Wheelbarrow outside, snow bowls outside, fill a container full of gas, gas up the…


DEC 7 2019 Pearl Harbor

Out of respect for the Navy personnel, Marines and civilians killed during the attack at Pearl. I will refrain from writing too much today. I also wanted to mention the families of the men recently killed at Pearl. As a Navy veteran, my heart goes out to the Men, Women and children that lost their…