{"id":30068,"date":"2024-01-13T11:04:06","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T18:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=30068"},"modified":"2024-01-13T15:53:51","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T22:53:51","slug":"jan-13-pizza-day-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2024\/01\/13\/jan-13-pizza-day-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 13 Pizza Day Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lucy Larcom<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is friggin cold a–gain. I checked the forecast. It will not warm till 5 pm on Monday. I don’t believe them.<\/p>\n

Polar vortex is like an unwanted guest. It always stays longer than we were told, but is a huge relief when gone.<\/p>\n

Cats are fed, snow gathered and melting on the fire. I managed to scavenge a few more pieces of wood and got those cut into smaller pieces. I also did a terrible job that needed doing.<\/p>\n

Under the biggest litter box I had a large cardboard box as a liner. It caught the extra poop and pee from cats that missed the mark.<\/p>\n

It lives by a glass single pane door, that opens to my cold shop. It is missing a pane that covered best I could with carboard and plastic.<\/p>\n

The urine soaked box with a thousands of frozen poops, okay maybe 20. I lifted that and moved it into the fireroom before starting the fire. It would take patience, strength and cunning to get the over sized frozen box into the woodstove. Wish I had all those virtues.<\/p>\n

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I am now covered in blankets, pizza and coffee beside me. It was ten in the fireroom, 3 in mine. I slowed the fire so It would melt the rest of the snow water. I put in all the wood scavenged this morning. I would need to find more, later.<\/p>\n

Right now pizza and coffee. I watched a few episodes, slept a little. When I woke it was colder not warmer. The fire was out, the snow not melted.<\/p>\n

I scavenged for more wood. Only found a little. I added that to the fire.<\/p>\n

At least two more cold nights and mornings. After that I can run the gen.<\/p>\n