When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Marcus Aurelius

Morning again.

I saw something disturbing on a tv series last night. A woman was describing symptoms of ALS. I recognized way too many of those symptoms.  It doesn’t matter until I can’t breathe any more then I die. The symptoms could be MS, or it could be spinal injury at my neck causing the same symptoms. I hope for that one, so I can keep going.

Did my chores chopped wood, did litter boxes, fed the birds, fed the generator, pumped water in as many containers as I could before the cold gets here in three days. There is already ice in my water tank. While I was there I also drained the hoses, took out the water pump to protect it and moved all the water I transferred, into a warmer room. There are still about 80 gallons left in the tank.

Whatever is happening outside, polar vortex or not my life is getting harder. I had a hard time breathing out there while I was chopping wood.

Now onto video games while my solar batteries are being charged by the generator.