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Tough times never last, but tough people do.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robert <\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yesterday.<\/p>\n

Cats got fed and watered. Two flat tires were filled, snow got shovelled, got out of the driveway. It was a little icy.<\/p>\n

I was thankful the snowplow guy didn’t do my driveway properly. When the snow melted on the warm days, it left my driveway with a rough texture.<\/p>\n

That actually made it better to get out.<\/p>\n

My side roads where the grader operator tried to do his job, were solid ice.<\/p>\n

No extra braking, or even the slightest acceleration tolerated.<\/p>\n

I made to the village picked up my freight. Went to town picked up groceries and made it back home and got Gracie back in the garage.<\/p>\n

I got the persishable freight inside, a little later got groceries unpacked. Parcels unpacked.<\/p>\n

There was collapsing after that. I even managed to start a fire for the night. I didn’t get back down to feed it again. I had overdone my day.<\/p>\n

Today<\/p>\n

Cats got fed and watered. Boards got cut. Kindling was made, fire got loaded and started. Shit I forgot the kettle gotta go.<\/p>\n

Dashed to the kettle and to the thermos, filled the thermos with water, used that to fill the kettle part way.<\/p>\n

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Kettle on the woodstove, me out of breath I type more. My Valentines Day was’t going to be glamorus. I needed more boards dragged in, more snow gathered, the gen filled and started, drill batteries collected and charged, coffee made, breakfast made.<\/p>\n

I got a new device in yesterday, it turns drill batteries into powerbanks. I can charge my DB (drill batteries) a few ways, direct from solar, the gen or from the solar batteries.<\/p>\n

This would add capacity incase of calamity.<\/p>\n

More watt hours of storage to keep my phone, internet and tablet running. I tried it last night. Awesome. Picture on yesterdays post. I have to go and do work.<\/p>\n

Gas can needs filling first. That done I needed to collect a few things. A DB, gloves, more catfood, and a usb cable I forgot in the van.<\/p>\n

The DB wasn’t where I thought it was. I had moved it to a safe place never to be seen again.<\/p>\n

I grabbed the catfood and gas and continued on. With the gas can, drill and snow bowl in hand, I headed to the back deck. I forgot the gen. The drill ran out of battery.<\/p>\n

I had an emergency measure for that. Using a screwdriver I removed all the screws I needed to, then retrieved the gen, filled it,\u00a0 got it started.<\/p>\n

Grabbed a big bowl of snow. Screwed down the gen shack cover, by hand. Took my bowl down to the woodstove.<\/p>\n

My kettle was already boiling by then. That led to a less than full thermos.<\/p>\n

With the DB in the charger. I went to make coffee. I was too tired. I was going to make breafast but too tired. Vitamins I could do those, ya you guesed it too tired..<\/p>\n

I needed to rest first. Typing words didn’t use much energy, just thinking and thumb movements.<\/p>\n

My xbox had a ton of downloads to do. So I had started those.<\/p>\n

Soon I would reach for suppliment bottles, i had gained two more yesterday, B12 made with the version a body could absorb\u00a0 and a vegan multi with added minerals.<\/p>\n

Did I think it would help? Ah couldn’t hoit.<\/p>\n

A lot of wrong things happened today. If I believed in luck at all, today would have been all bad.<\/p>\n

Just came in from gathering boards. I cut a few for the fire that was almost out. I saw flame come up again. I thought next I would look for the missing battery.<\/p>\n

I ordered two more generic DB at half the price of the ryobi ones. Probably only half as good.<\/p>\n

I also ordered new headphones. I broke mine today. I hooked up the old speaker system and remembered why I switched to headphones. All the voices sound muffled.<\/p>\n

The rewiring took me a painful two hours.<\/p>\n

I plan to feed the cats a little early today, since I am already here. I had to rearrange water bowls and refill them with snow.<\/p>\n

The fire got cold enough for the boy cats to knock the waterbowl off and dump the water.<\/p>\n

Like I said, tough day.<\/p>\n