{"id":23864,"date":"2022-12-27T10:28:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T17:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=23864"},"modified":"2022-12-27T18:59:18","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T01:59:18","slug":"dec-27-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2022\/12\/27\/dec-27-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Dec 27 Totally Board"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Gabriel Garcia Marquez<\/strong><\/p>\n

Been a busy morning. As usual fed the cats made sure they had water.<\/p>\n

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The fire was out, wood was out. I made another trip to the board pile. This time with the saw.<\/p>\n

When that was my old woodwork shop I piled a bunch of boards on an old work bench. Later I built a shelf for woodwork clamps. When I did that I locked a lot of boards away.<\/p>\n

Today I cut three 10 foot 1×6 x3\/4 popular tongue and grove boards in half while they were on the shelf.<\/p>\n

First of all a shame to cut those, second it was not easy. After that was done. I caried the boards back to the fireroom.<\/p>\n

They needed cutting again into smaller pieces. BRB<\/p>\n

Back now I forgot to fill the kettle with the snow I just gathered. Big mistake. The kettle had been sitting on the wood stove empty. Now it was hot. Put a hot kettle into a big bowl of snow and end up with a giant snowball.<\/p>\n

That of course melts all over the wood stove making a big mess.<\/p>\n

I cut the boards into smaller pieces 16 inches long. My breath was gone. I had to rest.<\/p>\n

Next job was to shovel poop. Best time to burn that is when the fire is hot. I filled a bucket got it ready for the fire. And it wasn’t going in till my kettle was boiled.<\/p>\n

The problem with melting snow in a kettle is, no matter how you pack the kettle it is never enough snow.<\/p>\n

I have to keep adding snow using the lid. I have do that 9 or ten times during the making hot water for coffee.<\/p>\n

I am sitting in the fire room with the boy cats typing these words.<\/p>\n

Soon after getting my breath back, I needed to get gas and the gen and haul those upstairs.<\/p>\n

Today I needed to change the oil, it was time. If I wasn’t too winded I would start it get my hot water make coffee and relax.<\/p>\n

I have been at it for about two hours by then.<\/p>\n

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Almost dark. Vancouver snow is falling, big wet heavy flakes that pile deep quickly.<\/p>\n

I cut a few more boards in the old wood work shop, then brought them into the fireroom to cut into smaller boards.<\/p>\n

I cut through four boards and had to rest. My arm was tired and I out of breath again.<\/p>\n

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I am not fooling anyone, including me. I am going to saw all the boards cause that’s who I am. It will hurt but it will get done. Needs doing.<\/p>\n

Hard to cut in the dark and none too safe. It was a lot warmer today. You can tell by the fluffy snow. Sure as hell somewhere south of here was getting freezing rain on top of yesterdays snow. That will be a mess.<\/p>\n

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Solar panels buried at least 8 inches of fresh snow.<\/p><\/div>\n

I am all done work and play today. I am experiencing backageddon. Or is that 50 shades of pain.<\/p>\n