{"id":20777,"date":"2022-01-11T13:46:10","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T20:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=20777"},"modified":"2023-07-13T22:16:09","modified_gmt":"2023-07-14T05:16:09","slug":"jan-11-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2022\/01\/11\/jan-11-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 11 Ain’t No Easy Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

The high road and positivity is never the easy way but always the best way.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nancy Wilson<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Tough night. Couldn’t get the fire to light. So I gave up on it.
\nOnly that was the time it lit. I slept through most of the early morning. I guess I needed to.<\/p>\n

I looked out at the driveway. I needed to move the snow. So I went through all the steps I needed to make that happen.<\/p>\n

Finally got to the part where the snowblower was running. Only it wasn’t blowing snow.<\/p>\n

I had this happen before, usually caused by a little ice build-up in the throw chamber.<\/p>\n

I checked there was none. I moved the first stage impeller. I heard a big clank. It was over.<\/p>\n

No snow removal, no groceries, no nothing. My snowplow driver had only done the first ten feet. He was usually doing most of my driveway. Not today.<\/p>\n

I made a few desperate phone calls. One the place I bought my chainsaw. To see if he could pick up my blower.<\/p>\n

I made another call to someone that owed me a favour to see if they could move the snow.<\/p>\n

Still waiting to hear from both.
\nIn the meantime I cut wood. I did a quick sharpen of the chain, went out and cut enough for a couple of days. More wet, heavy wood. The same wood that would light last night.<\/p>\n

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Yup, just wanted to swing at one piece of firewood. My back was already hurting from bringing the wood in.<\/p>\n

If any of you have read this blog before, you already know that I split the full load.<\/p>\n

If nothing else, I am consistent. One of the logs was filled with frozen centipedes. I hope they don’t wake up. I had a similar experience with, 10000 carpenter ants that came out of one log. I thought they were dead, they were not.<\/p>\n

One of my calls for help was answered. I am expecting a tractor to show up soon to move snow.<\/p>\n

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