{"id":4076,"date":"2019-09-26T09:37:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-26T16:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=4076"},"modified":"2019-09-26T18:32:33","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T01:32:33","slug":"sep-26-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2019\/09\/26\/sep-26-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Sep 26 2019 Stormy Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Character is formed in the stormy billows of the world.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dark outside, my solar panels are talking but all they are saying is nuhh uhh. I won’t be generating solar power today, and tomorrow doesn’t look good either. An epic fall snowstorm is about to hit Alberta I will be spared the heavy snowfall but the cold is coming. Up to 61 cm of snow will drop in Southern Alberta.<\/p>\n

For me, it will rain heavy then freeze, not ideal conditions for travel. I do need to get some groceries, out of cream for coffee and the other thing too, food. I am down to pasta and OMG (keenwa) quinoa. I am sure that has been in the pantry since before Obama, I mean his birth.<\/p>\n

I will add more writing later.<\/p>\n

I am back had a quick wash, I don’t have the luxury of a hot bath every morning like I used to.\u00a0 I am ok with that, everything I do now is to see if I could survive off-grid, that means no running water. Now that is a blessing really since my surrounding farmers love to use toxic chemicals. Those run into my pond when the snow melts. I have had a lot of animals die here of mutations, cancers and a lot of worse. A couple of them died in my arms, heartbreaking what we do in the name of bigger profits.<\/p>\n

Since I have been making my own pure water none of that is happening. My pets drink what I drink.<\/p>\n

So I learned my bathing techniques while I served in the military, quite often the system that made fresh water from ocean water would break down. Then we would have water restrictions aboard our ship, that meant having a birdbath, or sometimes knows as a whore’s bath. Soap up then rinse off. Not much to that The great thing this can be done with less than a gallon of water. Not the 80 gallons that needed to be heated by electricity. In the winter I use snow water melted and heated on the woodstove. Usually happens in front of the woodstove and all the heat that comes with. I wonder what the “NORMAL PEOPLE” will do when the grid fails. It has a few times already and will again.<\/p>\n

I plan to lower the van of the jacks try to get it started and try to make it to town. Hopefully, there is some money in the bank and I can pick up a few groceries. Rush back home and chop wood. It’s that time of year again.<\/p>\n

Got the old girl started went to town got a few groceries. I will wait to see if I wake up to snow in the morning before going to the big city. Did not do wood chopping its pouring rain, but I will have to do some tomorrow, I will also have to fire up the chainsaw. I am not looking forward to any of that. Once I start doing that I will have to keep doing that till the end of May, every day.<\/p>\n

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AS GOOD AS IT GOT TODAY<\/p><\/div>\n

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