{"id":11585,"date":"2020-10-09T07:25:06","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T14:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=11585"},"modified":"2020-10-09T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-10T00:05:37","slug":"oct-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/10\/09\/oct-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Oct 9 Dizzy & Cold"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a lot of laps, you start to get dizzy. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Lance Stroll<\/strong><\/p>\n

Well for now I have been spared snow for now, but I did see something disturbing in the forecast next Wednesday night it will be minus 9. It means dizziness or not sore muscles, fatigue or whatever health issues are plaguing me, I need to chainsaw and chop wood and feed the fire.
\nIt is cold enough to see my breath inside my house this morning as I did my morning chores.<\/p>\n

I woke before sunrise. I slowly and painfully made it to my feet, as It is every day. I used my cellphone to check the stairs on the way down from my loft. Very glad I did there were three very tiny kittens that had learned to climb stairs. No cat tastrophies.<\/p>\n

I could hear the cat stranded in the garage crying for food. I only gave her small amounts to try to coax her back inside, The last two times I had picked that cat up she went insano crazy and clawed me to the bone, so I wasn’t picking her up again. I hid behind an open door waited quietly for her to walk through and closed it quickly. She freaked and peaked until she could smell food. That horrible job was done.<\/p>\n

Next fill the water filter to make more pure water, Change out yesterday’s clean water for an empty jug. Lifting the 5-gallon container of water to fill the filter was very painful. The jug that used to weigh 50 pounds now weighed a 100 pounds under weakened muscles.<\/p>\n

Next onto filling the cat’s bowls with water. Thankful the 5 gallon can was lighter now. I filled the girl cats bowl then onto the boy cats bowl. They are separated.<\/p>\n

They also needed food bowls refilled, which was next, while trying to calculate if I had enough cat food for the month. I think I did, I hoped I did.<\/p>\n

Out to the wood workshop where I fed the outside cat. I opened the door for her and snapped a few pics before the sunrise.<\/p>\n

Now it was time for me, I screwed on the small propane bottle onto the camp stove to heat hot water for coffee. I tried to light it using the igniter on the stove which worked sometimes. It didn’t today. I keep an empty barbecue lighter close by for such times. It still had a spark, enough to get the burner working.<\/p>\n

I could hear little stealth kittens behind me invade the kitchen space, I chase them out and continued my coffee quest. I opened the old pantry door found a bamboo paper coffee filter, spooned in a little coffee and left for another morning routine. The trip to the loo.<\/p>\n

I just suddenly ran out of power on my laptop. I am very thankful that WP has an autosave feature.<\/p>\n

Water was getting warm enough to do the first pour through the cone filter. After three more pours my coffee cup was full enough to haul upstairs. I unscrewed the propane bottle, I found out recently there was a small leak somewhere and the bottles would empty in a few days. Just a fact of life.<\/p>\n

As I said soon I would be burning wood to heat the house during winter that’s where the hot water for coffee and where meals are heated. At least until I run out of wood. I calculated I may have enough to get me through till December If I ration. And that is what I am doing now, I wear a bathrobe and sweaters to compensate for the cooler temps inside.<\/p>\n

It is what it is. I just found out that my wood supplier is no longer in business. When the coldest weather arrives in January and continues till March I could be frozen, solid. The really sad thing no one will find out maybe for months.<\/p>\n

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My\u00a0 day went as expected I\u00a0 tried to get some inside work done. It was catlitter day. I also burned a few of the cardboard boxes that i left out for the boy cats. They love to break those apart for fun.<\/p>\n

Today the throat pain came back with a vengeance. Could be the virus, except it has been going for a long time.<\/p>\n