{"id":6525,"date":"2020-02-08T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/?p=6525"},"modified":"2020-02-26T13:38:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T20:38:16","slug":"feb-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rodbinder.com\/journal\/2020\/02\/08\/feb-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Feb 8 Sunny day"},"content":{"rendered":"

“A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Benjamin Franklin<\/strong><\/p>\n

Woke up with night sweats. Eventually, I got back to sleep. When I\u00a0 woke it was daylight. I crawled out of bed, something that takes half a minute these days. I did my tour cat dishes were all empty, water and food. I was short on snow water, I didn’t go out for that yesterday.\u00a0 So grabbed all the stainless bowls I used for melting, loaded them in the wheelbarrow and added a couple of pails for good measure, then hauled them outside.<\/p>\n

I know pretty boring stuff, but my blog title is ramble on and that is what I\u00a0 plan to do.<\/p>\n

Next put on the outdoor clothes and boots, decide how I want to boil my water for coffee and for my dehydrated breakfast. So handy, open remove the little oxygen absorber packet, add hot water into the bag, wait a few minutes and eat. No dishes to wash, no pots to scrub, and they taste better than my cooking, what’s not to love. Today is scrambled eggs and bacon.<\/p>\n

I decided to use my camp stove to heat the water, bad choice a yellow puddle on top. They were angry with me for letting their water bowls get empty. So fill the kettle put it on the woodstove.<\/p>\n

Now outdoors I am filling bowls and buckets and pots with snow. I stop long enough to take a few pics with my tablet. I need to find a way to carry it better. My cellphone is dying, it spent the night in a full cats bowl of water, even though waterproof it didn’t do well. I managed one call. Now the battery won’t take a charge.<\/p>\n

So I will find a way to continue pictures with the tablet. It kind of like using a monitor to take pictures.not all like the days I was a professional photographer using 35 MMS and bigger cameras back in the day.<\/p>\n

I managed to get the snow inside on the woodstove, fed all the cats watered most of them, boiled water for coffee and breakfast, I am ready to eat now. I even retrieved the rest of the cut wood from the log pile and brought that in.<\/p>\n

All that is left is split and I will continue to close every gap the cats are using to gain access to the kitchen. I already pulled a couple of sheets of Osb. One day I\u00a0 will win that battle.<\/p>\n

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To add to my fun I am typing this on my tab. All going good so far but I know what pain it is going to be to grab an embed from youtube. I already know that I will end up using my laptop for that.<\/p>\n

As for the cats, the battle goes on.<\/p>\n

Just finished wood for the day had a look at the toe from yesterday,\u00a0 the whole thing is purple. I don’t think it’s broken, but I will keep an eye on it.<\/p>\n

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