{"id":21163,"date":"2022-02-01T09:56:14","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T16:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=21163"},"modified":"2022-02-13T12:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T19:38:11","slug":"feb-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2022\/02\/01\/feb-1-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 1 The First Step"},"content":{"rendered":"

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lao Tzu<\/strong><\/p>\n

Too cold to run the gen today. No video games. I will be going out to cut wood later. I missed a log out there yesterday when my chain broke.<\/p>\n

There is a ton of things I should be doing inside. Cleanup, cleanup, cleanup. I know it will sound like blaming, my cats destroy every room they touch.<\/p>\n

My kitchen is a great example. They can still get in there. When I divided the room to keep them out, I used 1×6 boards. Thinking I was so smart by leaving a gap between the boards to allow warm air to circulate into the kitchen. As the boards dried, the gaps got bigger. Big enough for small cats to wiggle through.<\/p>\n

Their favourite thing to do besides knocking everything on every horizontal surface to the floor is pooping. Everywhere.<\/p>\n

If I leave any bags of garbage or tin cans anywhere, they empty them.<\/p>\n

If I hang laundry to dry in there, they make it their mission to hang from them till they are on the floor, where the poop is.<\/p>\n

I could redo the walls to keep them out if I had any more 1×6 boards.<\/p>\n

I need to rethink the whole kitchen thing. Redesign and rebuild make it cat-proof. I also need to repair some water damage in the walls and the floor.<\/p>\n

Now a small project becomes a giant one. One of many that needed doing. Too many.<\/p>\n

Before I start, I needed to add a 12v port by my bed, so I could do the design on my laptop.<\/p>\n

While I am there, I might as well add the two voltmeters, so I can monitor my battery banks. Oh, yea, I will need to build a stand for the laptop, so I can use it on the bed.<\/p>\n

And so it goes, a million smaller projects to get to the bigger ones. Design the room, do cleanup, move the stuff, start deconstructing and then reconstruct.<\/p>\n

ETA 12 th of I don’t think so.<\/p>\n

Where should it start? The planning then comes the action. That’s the part that thwarts me. My disabilities can get in the way. It is 13:15 I am already tuckered out just doing the maintaining chores.<\/p>\n

And so it goes.<\/p>\n

I need to empty that room out. Takedown the walls and start the rebuild.<\/p>\n

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\nAfter putting on a new chain, I gathered the things I needed to cut more wood. The old sled, the chainsaw, machete, the steel bowls for snow. Then I went out, cut every piece of wood I could find, loaded them on the sled, and dragged them inside.<\/p>\n

Time for snow, using the machete I cut more blocks of igloo ice and filled the bowls.<\/p>\n

On top of the woodstove, they made the usual sizzling sounds as the snow on the bottom melted onto the hot metal.<\/p>\n

I was inside, warm and had extra wood as I received an email saying there was a major snowstorm alert.<\/p>\n

I will check that out and see what is what.<\/p>\n

Snow Thursday. Extreme cold warning for tonight. -45 in a few hours. I would be loading the fire every two hours all night.<\/p>\n

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Sugar frosted firewood<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tablet pic phone charging<\/p><\/div>\n