{"id":21227,"date":"2022-02-03T14:02:05","date_gmt":"2022-02-03T21:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=21227"},"modified":"2022-02-13T12:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-02-13T19:44:50","slug":"feb-3-in-deep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2022\/02\/03\/feb-3-in-deep\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 3 In Deep"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Robert Frost<\/strong><\/p>\n

I knew a big snowstorm was on it’s way. Early, I got dressed, fed the cats and got Gracie ready for a trip to town.<\/p>\n

Cat food was in at the post office, I needed groceries, and needed to pay bills.<\/p>\n

I knew I would be staying home for a while due to snow. They say 40 cm was coming, but I will let you know.<\/p>\n

I made the trip, came home,\u00a0 I always back Gracie into the garage but because of the ice, I decided to nose her in.<\/p>\n

I didn’t want a repeat of last time, getting stuck right in front of the garage for two hours while I dug and coerced her out of the snow.<\/p>\n

This was different, a freeze-thaw cycle followed by a week of extreme cold had left my driveway a thick sheet of ice.<\/p>\n

I wasn’t even sure I was going to make it out.<\/p>\n

We made it there and back again. Got cat food, got human food, even a few fun things.<\/p>\n

Now I am laying in bed with a very sore back waiting for snow. I had enough wood for tonight. After that, I was sure I would be in trouble.<\/p>\n

The rest of the firewood outside, what little was left, was buried under 5 feet of ice and about to be buried even deeper.<\/p>\n

I do have a few dead trees, one of them kind of a monument. I witnessed the lightning strike that killed it.<\/p>\n

Cutting them, then transporting them in deep snow with an icy crust, would be difficult. None were close to the house.<\/p>\n

On another note:
\nI couldn’t figure out why my solar panels were not producing. Oh ya snow last night.<\/p>\n

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\nI chopped the wet and rotten wood and placed the remnants in the hoop hoping they would dry a little.<\/p>\n

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I restacked the rest of the wood so I would get an idea of how much I had left.<\/p>\n

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I still had 60 pounds of wet debris, and I had three litter boxes full of wood pellets flavored in cat pee and poop. They would burn over hot coals.<\/p>\n

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They was even a composting bucket of my poop, that would burn too.<\/p>\n

I also remember there is a bag and a box of wood chip debris in the garage. Both are very dry. I should be able to keep the heat on for a week.<\/p>\n

Let the snow come down.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It has started the snow is coming down, it is after 5 PM.<\/p>\n

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I checked the fire, I had loaded it with wet wood debris, rotten bark, dirt, roots, old sawdust and whatever was in the pile.<\/p>\n

When I checked it later, it was all aglow bright red. I was so encouraged, I filled the firebox with more. A lot more, maybe too much. I have put a fire out doing that in the past. I just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n

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Burning debris<\/p><\/div>\n