{"id":24702,"date":"2023-02-19T09:24:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T16:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=24702"},"modified":"2023-02-19T19:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T02:44:08","slug":"feb-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/02\/19\/feb-19-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 19 Voltage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Electricity can transform people’s lives, not just economically but also socially.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Piyush Goyal<\/strong><\/p>\n

Severely short of breath, cats fed, two twenty foot boards dragged inside through deep snow. I cut the boards in half in mid air so I could fit them inside.<\/p>\n

Cutting boards next, one board got cut up. Yes I had to take a quick rest halfway through.<\/p>\n

My way of resting, make kindling.
\nThat done, back to cutting. The last board was the hardest.<\/p>\n

Muscles cramped so bad, so much pain. Four inches to go on the last board of the day. I made it, but could hardly lift the saw back up to it’s resting place.<\/p>\n

Time for words while I take another rest. I wished I brought my new oxy pulse device. I was too fatigued to get it.<\/p>\n

While I sat I planned my next move knowing that I would probably forget it in a few minutes.<\/p>\n

I came up with a new plan. Fill the cat poop and sawdust bucket halfway add used oil from the gen, then add more cat sawdust.<\/p>\n

That might work. I layed down a layer of the oil soaked sawdust in the bottom of the wood stove, then cardboard then kindling. I just needed a flame now.<\/p>\n

One thing at a time. I needed paper to start the cardboard, that would start the kindling, then the oil soaked sawdust, that would heat my house and hot water.<\/p>\n

No paper except one piece of paper towel. The lighters all out of fuel, I had one tiny little flame.<\/p>\n

The paper towel burned out with out starting anything. I remebered my new hand vac was shipped in water tight plastic wrap.<\/p>\n

I cut and peeled away the plastic fast as I could trying to use the tiny flame from the paper towel.<\/p>\n

I didn’t make it. I prayed that the lighter had another flame left. It did I lit the plastic and it went out.<\/p>\n

I tried one more time, this time it lit, then some of the sawdust lit, then 10 minutes later I heard crackling.
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\nWarmth and hot coffee were on it’s way. Halliluah. How do do spell that?<\/p>\n

I know Thank G O D. It was plus 1 in the fire room when I started. Now it’s 3 and climbing.<\/p>\n

Sweeping my least favourite job, the one one that hurts my spine the most. I grabbed the broom, then noticed litter boxes needed doing.<\/p>\n

I have a new way to do that, during milder temps. I have a 120 liter storage box in the fire room. I empty the other smaller litter boxes into that one.<\/p>\n

Everyday I shovel 5 gallons worth of that stuff into a bucket, that goes in the woodstove. That only works in milder winter temps. It burns too low for the really cold weather but is great at keeping some heat all night.<\/p>\n

I swept, and swept and swept more. Stairs , floors from 3 different rooms. I swept it all into the fire room then into the fire.<\/p>\n

Of course I did it too soon, the kettle is not hot yet, all that stuff, sawdust, cat hair and worse almost puts the fire almost out.<\/p>\n

I guess that gives me time to go get gas for the gen, fill it and start it. The gen is failing again.\u00a0I ordered another one, a louder, bigger, gas guzzling one. The good thing is it should run my table saw without stuttering.<\/p>\n

Right now, my 2500 watt Chinese made gen dies if you run\u00a0 over 400 watts through it. Third one of those to fail in less than a year.<\/p>\n

I am trying to keep it running till Friday, when the new one arrives. I will have to build a bigger gen shack. Weather forecast says it is going to snow while I build that.<\/p>\n

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It is actually snowing thru blue skies<\/p><\/div>\n

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