I think of myself as no more than 60. What I could do at 60, I can still do now.
Oscar Niemeyer
Yesterday’s heavy snowfall warning, last night’s extreme cold warning. Now today another heavy snowfall warning, an additional 30 cm and another 6 cm on Saturday and to add to my morning more cashews made a violent exit. Yup life is good. I am still alive and kickin although a lot slower.
I have been out there. Gathered snow for melting, cleaned the solar panels (to no avail), moved two loads of wood to the temporary chopping block. I brought the snow in before I moved the wood. The snowfall and wind picked up. I decided to chop later.
When I got back inside the water for coffee was boiling. When I went to the water filter room for the jug of filtered water it was frozen and worse inside the filter unit the water had started to freeze. I was sure those expensive filters would shatter if frozen. I needed to leave that door open or move the filter unit back to the kitchen where it was warmer.
Now I knew when now to keep the air in that room warmer during -30 temps. Even if I moved the filter, the water tank was in there, I didn’t want that to freeze either.
The snow is falling heavy now. I will have to go chop soon. I am out of battery on my tablet anyway. I will attempt to charge that from already depleted solar batteries. the new gen did not arrive today. Getting to town on Monday might be on foot. It’s only 8 miles I have snowshoes hahaha.
YUP the wood is chopped my fingers and face are frozen. I have not tried to push the way too fookin big load up the ramp. If I make it, I will be warm tonight. If I don’t I will be reloading the wheelbarrow a few times.
So I didn’t make it in one load. But I did make it in two.
The last big job is to move a bag of wood pellets from the van to the cat’s room.
Good thing I am exhausted to the extreme.
1000 pounds yup maybe more than I can handle.
This is how much was spilled.
Did I spend the rest of the day sitting on my ass doing nothing? I just couldn’t do that. I moved the water filter system into the kitchen. Took the frozen hoses off and hung them in the fireroom until thawed. Then there was the wood pellets that I used for cat litter. I needed to move a bag from the van. The solar panels also needed a sweep again.
I did that without putting on warm clothes that was a fast trip. On the way back I grabbed a 40 pound bag of pellets and threw those over my shoulder and carried them inside and distributed them amongst the litter boxes. I swear that bag was over a hundred pounds.
After all that I am tired, every muscle and every bone hurts. So why do I do this? The same answer as always needs doing.
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