{"id":29852,"date":"2024-01-04T10:38:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T17:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=29852"},"modified":"2024-01-05T01:42:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T08:42:52","slug":"jan-4-snow-cold-early","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2024\/01\/04\/jan-4-snow-cold-early\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 4 Snow & Cold Early"},"content":{"rendered":"

And soon, too soon, we part with pain, To sail o’er silent seas again.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thomas Moore<\/strong><\/p>\n

The cold arrived two days early. Snow arrived with it. I would have to travel through it. The cold and snow would only get worse over the next few days. Tuesday it will be -34, (forecast now upgraded to -37) another Polar Vortex is on it’s way.<\/p>\n

I have freight sitting at the post office. I needed some groceries too. Out of water, add that to the list.<\/p>\n

My back hurts so bad, I can hardly move, I don’t remember this much pain. I have\u00a0 broken my back and neck twice in car accidents. Now that is made worse by osteoarthitus.<\/p>\n

I made the drive to the village and town in a snowstorm. The roads were slippery. I had to travel today because of the cold. I am an old man that drives an old van. I call her Gracie. Both of us don’t travel well in extreme cold.<\/p>\n

Today I have been moving full gas cans 6, water bottles 40 pounds heavy 3, steel shelves, 2 one gallon water bottles, two large boxes of groceries. Two bags of catfood inside, plus the four I just picked up.<\/p>\n

Shit I have a box full of oatmilk in the van. I gotta get those in the next twenty minutes.<\/p>\n

I am laying down right now try to recuperate enough to bring the heavy water bottles in.<\/p>\n

It feels like there is a flathead screwdriver jammed in between vertabrae being twisted by some unseen denon.<\/p>\n

The groceries are still unpacked on the kitchen floor. There are still three big water bottles in the van. Those need to be brought inside today, plus the oatmilk.<\/p>\n

Oatmilk is up, that was painfull slow. It took me 45 minutes total including feed the cats.<\/p>\n

Groceries still not unpacked and whats worse is my coffee and tablet are just out of reach. I will have to get up again. Lazy, nope. Just in a lot of pain.<\/p>\n

I plan to get groceries unpacked soon. Maybe after an old man’s nap.<\/p>\n

Some groceries were unpacked, more to get done in tbe morning I have been laying down for 7 hours trying to recuperate.<\/p>\n

The large water bottles are still in the van and will probably frozen by morning I will have to thaw those out tommorrow.<\/p>\n

Then I need to figure out how to heat the house. I have a small propane heater but learned that the fumes from that and even natural gas stoves are toxic.<\/p>\n

I have a Chinese diesel heater but not finished the install. Still waiting for some parts for a custom install from China.<\/p>\n

\u00a0i do have a small amount odlf firewood but the chimney is still not repaired yet. That requires me ti go on a snow covered sheet metal roof.<\/div>\n
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Usually there is deep snow to land in if I fall off. Due to climate change there is almost no snow on the frozen ground.<\/div>\n
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