{"id":23833,"date":"2022-12-24T09:31:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T16:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=23833"},"modified":"2022-12-24T20:27:54","modified_gmt":"2022-12-25T03:27:54","slug":"dec-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2022\/12\/24\/dec-24\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 24 Christmas Eve Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christmas is doing a little something extra for someone.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Charles M. Schulz<\/strong><\/p>\n

I did the things that needed doing this morning.<\/p>\n

I got up at 6 started a fire, and then up to watch a couple of episodes.<\/p>\n

Came back at 9:30 AM loaded the wrong kind of wood on non exsistent coals. Heavy wood not for reigniting.<\/p>\n

Went to get skinnier wood, broke all that into smaller pieces. Restarted the fire again.<\/p>\n

Cats got fed, but they needed water. I needed to make the last water bottle last longer so I went out for snow.<\/p>\n

I loaded as much as I could into the bowl and brought it down to the fire.<\/p>\n

I had ulterior motives for the fire, yes it was cold in the house, but my kettle wasn’t hot enough.<\/p>\n

Breathing was difficult today.yet I still needed more wood. I had used all that I brought up.<\/p>\n

After looking around I decided to sweep instead. It was a great plan, that gave me about ten pounds of burnable stuff, sawdust carboard, and other stuff that shalt not be named.<\/p>\n

I carefully fit all that in the fire, that would last a few hours.<\/p>\n

My kettle ready and the hot water poured into a thermos. It was time to have that coffee.<\/p>\n

There was really no choice, sweeping was the worst activity for my back. In pain, I would reluctantly leave my seat in front of the fire. As soon as cat water was ready.<\/p>\n

There always one more thing. I got to my coffee cup and it was full of cranberry juice from 6 AM. I had to drink that first.<\/p>\n

I just wanted a hot coffee. The house was slowly heating up. It was five in my room. Anything on the positive was good. I had lots of blankets.<\/p>\n

I am sure I am doing better than people in the Ukraine.<\/p>\n

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Hot coffee and hot cereal made. Jack Ryan on. I get to relax for a minute. But not for long all my batteries are low, powerbanks, cellphone and tablet all low.<\/p>\n

I have to run the gen, I am waiting till the last second hoping some warmth will happen outside.<\/p>\n

There are 5 days of heavy snowfall forecast.<\/p>\n

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Up to 50 CM of snow to fall. Suddely a dead battery in the van seems redundant.<\/p>\n

Oh BTW my last bag of catfood would have run out today. Yesterdays help bringing my parcels here saved my cats. The chicken would have give me another day.<\/p>\n

My day certainly not over. More mood brought into the fire room and cut by hand.<\/p>\n

9 I gathered more snow, got the gen serviced, gassed up and started.<\/p>\n

Snow on the woodstove all devices plugged in for charging except my phone which is down to 8%. That will be plugged in soon.<\/p>\n

Geralt is about to be sent into battle against alghouls.<\/p>\n

Good thing coz I am sore and add the eye injury I just got. We are done work. For now.<\/p>\n

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