{"id":25009,"date":"2023-03-07T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T14:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=25009"},"modified":"2023-03-07T19:49:05","modified_gmt":"2023-03-08T02:49:05","slug":"mar-7-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2023\/03\/07\/mar-7-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar 7 Boots"},"content":{"rendered":"

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Henry Rollins<\/strong><\/p>\n

It all started yesterday. I got dressed to go to the village to pickup freight. I got dressed in the fireroom after a trip outside to gather wood.<\/p>\n

I knew I couldn’t leave my snowboots unattended. My boy cats love to pee on them.<\/p>\n

I put them in the next room and finished getting dressed.\u00a0 I noticed a puddle of water coming from under the door.<\/p>\n

A huge bowl of catwater was overturned right into my snowboots. That is a big disaster. You can’t hather firewood in wet boots.<\/p>\n

So I took out the liners and hung them carefully with boots above cat jumping height. I had hoped to come down to dry boots this morning.<\/p>\n

I had misjudged the tenacity of my boy cats. I found the liners on the floor freshly pissed on.<\/p>\n

I needed to go out now to get firewood. I was out. No boots no firewood. The pile was almost empty but there were a few boards left.<\/p>\n

It was still -25 out there, they say. I am wearing an old worn out pair of boot liners for slippers right now.<\/p>\n

I needed snow for water, so I snuck out just wearing the liners and quickly grabbed a bowl full of snow.
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\nI didn’t have wood but I did have mountain of cardboard. With a box cutter I rendered down the boxes to manageable chunks and fed them to the fire. They burned hot, which was great but only lasted for about a minute then needed another load.<\/p>\n

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Heat for coffee exclusivley furnished by Amazon.<\/p><\/div>\n

I thought more about my boot problem. If I wrapped my boot liners in garbage bags then put my boots on I might be able to grab a few boards to make it through the morning.<\/p>\n

It was worth a try. I just needed my gloves. They were missing. I found them also on the floor and wet. I put them right on the top of the woodstove.<\/p>\n

I left the gloves too long, they were toast. I went down to the van and grabbed my driving gloves.<\/p>\n

Garbage bag snowboots on I went out to the wood pile. At the bottom of the pile were rotten boards. Enough to keep me warm and get the kettle hot.<\/p>\n

I earned my coffee this morning.\u00a0 After coffee, vitamins and breakfast then assemble a chair.<\/p>\n

First line in the manual.
\n“It will take at least two to assemble this chair”<\/strong><\/p>\n

How about one broken old man and 4 cats. Will that do? It had to. It’s all I got. Kettle is throwing steam the fire is burning. I need to go.<\/p>\n

Breakfast and coffee are done. I am looking at the fire wondering why it wasn’t blazing.<\/p>\n

I added more wood, more cardboard, more paper. It didn’t seem to help. They were rotten boards mixed in with a few good ones.<\/p>\n

Chair assembly would have to wait. It was only 10 in the fireroom and 6 elsewhere.<\/p>\n

The chair is assembled. It was interesting. I am in the chair. I may not be able to leave.<\/p>\n

It isn’t as comfy as it looked on the website.<\/p>\n

The chair is assembled, the cats hardly helped.<\/p>\n