{"id":5636,"date":"2020-01-03T15:12:24","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T22:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=5636"},"modified":"2020-01-05T21:11:40","modified_gmt":"2020-01-06T04:11:40","slug":"jan-3-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/01\/03\/jan-3-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan 3 2020 Moving the Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Even in winter an isolated patch of snow has a special quality.” <\/strong><\/p>\n

Andy Goldsworthy<\/strong><\/p>\n

It had to be done. The driveway had to be cleared of snow because my kitties were almost out of food. So was I but I had tons of pasta and pantry items I wouldn’t have starved. Looking back a few days later it was the right decision the cats food ran out on sunday.<\/p>\n

I have been ordering my food from Amazon, as much as possible. Why? I don’t spend much on fuel, I like the free shipping and I have time to research the products I am buying to see if they are really organic or if they are from one of the megacorps, who really don’t know what the word ethics means.<\/p>\n

So the day started with carrying down the generator, pulling the snowblower out, checking all its fluids. Starting the gen, that turns the electric starter on the snowblower until it fires.<\/p>\n

Next is making the long walk up and down the driveway 50 times so the snowblower can do its job. My hands hurt before I started, even worse now, and knees, back, neck, and all the rest.<\/p>\n

It was windy, the snow just blew all over me and the blower, I was covered in ice and snow, the whole time regretting not putting on a bandanna. But thankful I had my winter beard, it turned into a gray frozen mass, but my face was okay.<\/p>\n

A few hours later the driveway is done, a path is done, so I can do more wood. I roll the machine back into its home lock the door and take a rest.<\/p>\n

Now comes time to unscrew the boards holding my garage doors from moving and a few extra to keep blowing snow out. Pour a little gas down Gracie’s throat and soon her engine is roaring ready to go.<\/p>\n

Down my dirt road plowing through snowdrifts, I make it to the highway and to the village where my food is sitting at the post office, I pile all that into Gracie stop at the convenience store to pick up a few more items. I Had to, the box that didn’t arrive had all the coffee creamers.<\/p>\n

That wouldn’t arrive till Tuesday. Yup there is another snowstorm coming tonight, I will have to do this all over again in a few days.<\/p>\n

That’s it, for now, I need to rest my body is achin. The snowstorm is here early, immediately I had a mind panic that says go out get the last four logs before the snow is too deep. My body says “are you fuckin crazy?” I wonder who will win. Who do you think will win the body or mind?<\/p>\n

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