{"id":12201,"date":"2020-11-08T09:16:39","date_gmt":"2020-11-08T16:16:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=12201"},"modified":"2020-11-08T16:42:27","modified_gmt":"2020-11-08T23:42:27","slug":"nov-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/11\/08\/nov-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Nov 8 Stair Demons"},"content":{"rendered":"

Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.<\/strong>
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\nRudyard Kipling<\/strong><\/p>\n

MINUS 16 at 9:00 AM. I went out in a t-shirt to feed and water the outside kittens.<\/p>\n

Right now I am sitting in the fireroom with the boy cats as they eat waiting for my coffee water to boil.<\/p>\n

The girl cats have not been fed except the two new kittens. I will get to that after coffee.<\/p>\n

I am not motivated to feed them. Yesterday I cleaned their entire area swept every corner scraped up any poop that missed the litter box. I even changed their litter box at the top of the stairs. The stairs were swept with a hand brush one at a time.<\/p>\n

This morning I found the litter box was dumped all over the stairs and the clean floor. When did that happen before?<\/p>\n

The day after I had swept and cleaned their room and the stairs. Are they purposely malicious? I have no doubt. The girl cats are demons.<\/p>\n

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That was easy. HUh!!!<\/p>\n

I sharpened the chainsaw best I could my files were dull. I went out and couldn’t even cut through one skinny little log. Inside I went trying to remember the right direction to face the teeth of the chain while I changed it for another. I didn’t. I went out couldn’t cut the same skinny log. Inside I went and reversed the chain direction to the right way.<\/p>\n

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Once back to the woodpile I was cutting and cutting like crazy the wood chips being ejected were the right size and shape. I decided to cut some more monster logs. Which I did and stacked them. I kept cutting until I almost collapsed. I made the slow walk into the garage and took my saw in. I didn’t want to quit yet. So I retrieved the wheelbarrow and loaded up and slowly headed to the garage to get them inside. I was even going to unload the logs ready for splitting. My body just laughed. One slow step at a time I made my way back to the kitchen and peeled off soaking wet clothes. -9 my ass it must have been closer to -1.<\/p>\n

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I cut 11 of those monsters. Each one almost enough wood for one night at -10.<\/p>\n

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I still needed to go back and split my load of wood and bring it inside, But I needed to rest. I was hoping after splitting wood I could sit down and play on the box. I had just started to play an old game. I was just getting into it and yesterday they announced that the game was in the middle of a remaster with better graphics. This meant for me I would have to play something else. The remaster of the game would include all three versions plus all addons. They say it would be released in the spring.\u00a0 Sad and happy about that.<\/p>\n

I can’t even describe the fatigue, headache and pain I am feeling after the cutting and the dry cough is back. I would have to cancel the diagnostic test for tomorrow. It took Me three years to get that ordered.<\/p>\n

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Ya I can’t believe I did the whole thing either, Even getting that inside without spilling a small miracle.\u00a0 At current temps that is two nights worth. When the temperature drops that is one night’s worth.<\/p>\n

Now I could sleep for … about four hours that’s when the stove needs reloading. Every four.<\/p>\n

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