{"id":13411,"date":"2020-12-12T04:56:27","date_gmt":"2020-12-12T11:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=13411"},"modified":"2020-12-12T15:52:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-12T22:52:39","slug":"dec-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/12\/12\/dec-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 12 Cold…..IT’S BACK"},"content":{"rendered":"

Physically, you never get used to the cold. It’s cold! If it’s cold, it’s cold! And you go out there, and your body feels it, but I think mentally, living in it, it’s not such a shock to you<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Clay Matthews III<\/strong><\/p>\n

442 am awake again.<\/code><\/p>\n

Something weird about that time of morning.<\/p>\n

It’s almost 11 am now. Cats are fed and watered. I took the pictures below while i was feeding the birds. I did notice that the cold sheduled for tonight was already here. My thermometer read -22c. The weather forecast say it feels like -30. It means that there is a cold wind. Chainsaw and chop was going to be cold.<\/p>\n

To see what I had already inside I\u00a0 filled the log hoop with all the wood I had left in the fire room. It wasn’t going to be enough to get me through a cold night.<\/p>\n

I needed to get out and chainsaw and chop. I also needed to cut extra, 4 days of snow were coming. I knew I needed to cut the ones on the ground. The chain dulling kind. If I didn’t cut them today I wouldn’t see those again till spring. Deep snow would cover the logs this week.<\/p>\n

I would need every piece of wood I could find to get me through the winter, I may even have to chop up the lumber I had on my porch and any lumber I had in the shops.<\/p>\n

The weather stations were forecasting a week of very cold and snow, happening almost everyday. They have also forecasting a brutal cold winter with extra deep snow on top.<\/p>\n

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\nI understand why my solar panels didnt give me any charge. During the night we had a small frosting of snow. My already limited solar day was rendered useless. I was concerned. My batteries have been very low for three days. Not good for the batteries.<\/p>\n

It was too cold to run the big gen especially since it has not run for a few years.<\/p>\n

I turned my attention to my saw. The chain was dull. I picked up new files at the hardware store. They did not fit in my special sharpener. So I had to sharpen by hand. I suck at\u00a0 that job. My eyesight is just not good enough to do that well.<\/p>\n

I was also worried about my hands outside. I knew my gloves were not good enough to handle the cold. Thank God the gloves were too big. I was able to fit some thinsulate gloves inside of them. Would I be able to handle the chainsaw. I will let you know.<\/p>\n

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I just got in from chainsawing. The chain didn’t last ten minutes. I would have to put on the new one and pray it was the right one.<\/p>\n

I cut enough for tonight. I still needed to go back out and split and transport. The only choice I had was to split by hand again.<\/p>\n

A very painful option for me. Oh and BTW the gloves inside gloves kept my hands warm, but made it very difficult to work.<\/p>\n

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I am back from chopping. When I got the load to the back door. I did a quasimodo shuffle back inside. I managed to get the load inside without spilling it. But did have three stallouts on the ramp that I had to power through. No choice.<\/p>\n

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