{"id":13634,"date":"2020-12-18T08:07:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T15:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=13634"},"modified":"2020-12-20T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T18:46:48","slug":"dec-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/12\/18\/dec-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 18 63"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Oscar Niemeyer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday’s heavy snowfall warning, last night’s extreme cold warning. Now today another heavy snowfall warning, an additional 30 cm and another 6 cm on Saturday and to add to my morning more cashews made a violent exit. Yup life is good. I am still alive and kickin although a lot slower.<\/p>\n

I have been out there. Gathered snow for melting, cleaned the solar panels (to no avail), moved two loads of wood to the temporary chopping block. I brought the snow in before I moved the wood. The snowfall and wind picked up. I decided to chop later.<\/p>\n

When I got back inside the water for coffee was boiling. When I went to the water filter room for the jug of filtered water it was frozen and worse inside the filter unit the water had started to freeze. I was sure those expensive filters would shatter if frozen. I needed to leave that door open or move the filter unit back to the kitchen where it was warmer.<\/p>\n

Now I knew when now to keep the air in that room warmer during -30 temps. Even if I moved the filter,\u00a0 the water tank was in there, I didn’t want that to freeze either.<\/p>\n

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The snow is falling heavy now. I will have to go chop soon. I am out of battery on my tablet anyway. I will attempt to charge that from already depleted solar batteries. the new gen did not arrive today. Getting to town on Monday might be on foot. It’s only 8 miles I have snowshoes hahaha.<\/p>\n

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YUP the wood is chopped my fingers and face are frozen. I have not tried to push the way too fookin big load up the ramp. If I make it, I will be warm tonight. If I don’t I will be reloading the wheelbarrow a few times.<\/p>\n

So I didn’t make it in one load. But I did make it in two.<\/p>\n

The last big job is to move a bag of wood pellets from the van to the cat’s room.<\/p>\n

Good thing I am exhausted to the extreme.
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\n1000 pounds yup maybe more than I can handle.
\n\"\"T<\/a>his is how much was spilled.<\/p>\n

Did I spend the rest of the day sitting on my ass doing nothing? I just couldn’t do that. I moved the water filter system into the kitchen. Took the frozen hoses off and hung them in the fireroom until thawed. Then there was the wood pellets that I used for cat litter. I needed to move a bag from the van. The solar panels also needed a sweep again.<\/p>\n

I did that without putting on warm clothes that was a fast trip. On the way back I grabbed a 40 pound bag of pellets and threw those over my shoulder and carried them inside and distributed them amongst the litter boxes. I swear that bag was over a hundred pounds.<\/p>\n

After all that I am tired, every muscle and every bone hurts. So why do I do this? The same answer as always needs doing.<\/p>\n