{"id":15009,"date":"2021-02-04T10:11:04","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T17:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=15009"},"modified":"2021-02-04T17:25:06","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T00:25:06","slug":"15009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2021\/02\/04\/15009\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 4 Brass Balls"},"content":{"rendered":"

HBMDH<\/p>\n

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Lucy Larcom<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another day in my world. I slept through my alarm to load the fire. The house wasn’t cold yet and there were a handful of coals. Not enough to self ignite, so I gathered the empty cat food bags and placed them on top of the wood I put in there and gave them a little fire from a small propane torch I have nearby. The cats are fed, and I am upstairs. I just heard a crackle coming from the fire. That’s a good sign in another half hour I may have hot water for coffee.<\/p>\n

I am going to have a little cereal and oat milk before I get dressed for outside. I just watched the weather report another major snowstorm is about to hit, then comes the vortex giving us the coldest air on the planet. Wind chills may hit -50.\u00a0 With some luck the snowstorm will fall lower south than I am, that comes with a trade-off. If the snowstorm is further south it is because the polar vortex is pushing it there which means if I don’t get snow I will get the cold sooner.<\/p>\n

I was going to town today to top up my groceries, but my snowplow didn’t do the road to the highway. I may be stuck here until next week. I have lots of canned beans, cereals, oatmeal and pasta, most important I have lots of coffee and powdered whole milk for whitener.<\/p>\n

It looks like my day has been decided no trip to town, another snowstorm has started. Unless the plow arrives in the next hour I will be staying home for the next few days.<\/p>\n

It got sunny and clear for a while. The snowplow did come. I went to town did all the things I needed to do and got home. Unloaded the groceries, fed the fire made a coffee. My back is hurting. I still need to go out and chop wood.<\/p>\n

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Gracie is in her home snuggled in for the cold spell<\/p>\n

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Most I could do today, was move the blocks of wood ready for chopping tomorrow. A thousand pounds worth.<\/p>\n