{"id":23820,"date":"2022-12-23T15:09:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-23T22:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=23820"},"modified":"2022-12-23T22:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T05:23:50","slug":"dec-23-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2022\/12\/23\/dec-23-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 23 Miracles"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Albert Einstein<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am not even sure where to start this post. It has been an interesting day.<\/p>\n

If I didn’t get my parcels from the post office cats would get hungry. If I didn’t find wood, we would all freeze.<\/p>\n

I went out and shoveled 35 feet of my driveway. It was supposed to be 20 as per agreement with my snowplow guy.<\/p>\n

I unlocked the garage doors so I could get Gracie started. I poured a little gas down Gracie’s throat and thats when I heard the click click click of a dead battery.<\/p>\n

It was expected after the week long deep freeze. -55 ru kidding?<\/p>\n

I went upstairs carried the gen down, found the battery charger and hooked everything up. I started the gen and the charger wasn’t charging the battery.<\/p>\n

I grabbed another charger it says battery full. Neither of them would charge the battery.<\/p>\n

I called the Post Office I found out they would closed till next Wednesday. My last bag of catfood would never last that long.<\/p>\n

I called the Hutterite Colony, the last friendly people in the area. I asked if they were going to the village. The answer was: they had already been.<\/p>\n

I was starting to get worried. I told my friend Rosa what was happening. She said she would call back if she found a way.<\/p>\n

I was getting worried that I may have to walk the 8 miles pulling my sled, load it up and walk back another 8 miles in 30 below and blowing snow. I can hardly make it to the end of the driveway, but I would have attempted the trip or die trying.<\/p>\n

I gave up on the generator and charging the battery. I put it away. I locked the garage doors and sealed them best I could.<\/p>\n

30 CM of snow was going to fall over the next two days. White Christmas no problem. Hungry cats big problem.<\/p>\n

My friend at the Colony called back said she would find someone. She told me to call the post office and tell them they were coming.<\/p>\n

I did that.<\/p>\n

I looked over at my shop and there was a bunch of boards different sizes and species left over from woodwork projects from years ago.<\/p>\n

I had forgotten about them. I moved my woodwork shop to a different part of my house. I had already burned all my project wood from the new shop.<\/p>\n

There was enough there to keep me going a couple of weeks maybe more.<\/p>\n

Christmas Miracle? I choose to think so. Not as fun as the Santa radiator shop complete with deer christmas eve story, but I will take it. Just then I heard a car pull up outside.<\/p>\n

It was a man bringing me a goodie bag from a secret Santa. A roasted chicken some veg, and a few other things.<\/p>\n

It wasn’t enough to feed cats for 4 days but would have helped.<\/p>\n

I had been out in the cold for about 2 hours by then. I decided to move some wood while I waited. I cut up a few with a handsaw for the fire.<\/p>\n

Right after that I got a call. My parcels had arrived. My friend had gone in her self and picked up my catfood order, plus I had tuna, beans and a few cans of salmon, along with 12 packs of Ramen.<\/p>\n

She also had a couple of bags of baked goods.<\/p>\n

In summary I wouldn’t freeze or starve, and my cats wouldn’t starve.<\/p>\n

Poor old Gracie still wouldn’t start but that was a problem for another day.<\/p>\n

Second miracle was I was able to get all that done with my spine hurting like it was.<\/p>\n

Third miracle at 4:03 PM I was able to make my morning coffee.<\/p>\n

I exhausted and in pain but grateful that I got help today and happy to have hot coffee right now.<\/p>\n

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