{"id":18581,"date":"2021-07-16T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T16:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=18581"},"modified":"2021-07-17T13:55:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T20:55:39","slug":"july-16-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2021\/07\/16\/july-16-2\/","title":{"rendered":"July 16 Dark Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.<\/strong>
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\nRobert Frost<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dark day. No solar, no video games, no computer, no generator, no outside work, almost.<\/p>\n

I can do some inside work but even that is limited due to the darkness. The rain has started to come down. There will not be a dump trip again tomorrow because of mud. At least it is ready to go. Maybe next weekend.<\/p>\n

As for inside work, I have more than I can really fathom. So much some days I really don’t know where to start. I have two general categories, stuff I want to do and stuff that needs doing. Sometimes it all seems the same to me.<\/p>\n

Litter boxes need doing today, in pouring rain. My office needs doing, I have five 2-month-old kittens that don’t use the box yet. I need to build doors around my battery shelves, the little kittens torment me by climbing on the batteries and chewing on wires. That is a 3-hour job complicated by using just cordless tools. Too rainy to use the gen on the unfinished deck.<\/p>\n

I still need to organize the office more before doing more carpentry. I need to clean up more workshop to build anything.\u00a0 I am charging my USB light right now, that needs doing before I start. My solar batteries are low already and not much chance of charging today. I am thankful I built my 16 cell power bank, that will keep me using my tablet tonight while the rains come down.<\/p>\n

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Well, that was fun, from one minor disaster to another. First, the drill battery was dead, no problem I had a spare in the charger, only that one was dead too. So I plugged in the charger it sucked down the power in the solar battery so low, I knew they would be permanently damaged if I continued. No problem, I had two smaller ones. I could picture them clearly in my mind, but not their location. So off I went to search for them in the usual locations.<\/p>\n

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How could you stay mad at that face? That’s Bam Bam. Yes, he has a sister named Pebbles.<\/p><\/div>\n

No luck, so I went back to clean up. The kittens had knocked laundry off the clean pile to the floor. No problem, except they also thought my socks made a good litter box. Off I went to grab gloves, the leather ones, I thought if I was careful. Well, you know how that went. The rubber gloves would have been a better choice.<\/p>\n

As I was cleaning up, I spotted the smaller batteries, great I just needed the drill, which I put somewhere. Back to searching. I found the drill, put in the battery. Then I tried to remember why I needed the drill in the first place.<\/p>\n

I really need to remember to get my memory-enhancing cacao nibs out of the van. Oh yea I had more stuff in the van that needed unloading and I needed to grab another 40 pound bag of wood pellets out of the van too. That would another problem to solve. The bags were at the side door. I had parked the van too close to the wall on that side.<\/p>\n

Back to the shitty leather gloves. I washed those in water and hung them up to dry. Back to clean up, I managed to sweep a 2 ft by 10 ft area. That only took two hours. It seems today wasn’t my day.<\/p>\n

After a quick break, I will try to accomplish more.<\/p>\n

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C2 Cali the sequel<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cute little poop machines.<\/p><\/div>\n

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I remember everything now<\/p><\/div>\n

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