Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Been a busy morning. As usual fed the cats made sure they had water.
The fire was out, wood was out. I made another trip to the board pile. This time with the saw.
When that was my old woodwork shop I piled a bunch of boards on an old work bench. Later I built a shelf for woodwork clamps. When I did that I locked a lot of boards away.
Today I cut three 10 foot 1×6 x3/4 popular tongue and grove boards in half while they were on the shelf.
First of all a shame to cut those, second it was not easy. After that was done. I caried the boards back to the fireroom.
They needed cutting again into smaller pieces. BRB
Back now I forgot to fill the kettle with the snow I just gathered. Big mistake. The kettle had been sitting on the wood stove empty. Now it was hot. Put a hot kettle into a big bowl of snow and end up with a giant snowball.
That of course melts all over the wood stove making a big mess.
I cut the boards into smaller pieces 16 inches long. My breath was gone. I had to rest.
Next job was to shovel poop. Best time to burn that is when the fire is hot. I filled a bucket got it ready for the fire. And it wasn’t going in till my kettle was boiled.
The problem with melting snow in a kettle is, no matter how you pack the kettle it is never enough snow.
I have to keep adding snow using the lid. I have do that 9 or ten times during the making hot water for coffee.
I am sitting in the fire room with the boy cats typing these words.
Soon after getting my breath back, I needed to get gas and the gen and haul those upstairs.
Today I needed to change the oil, it was time. If I wasn’t too winded I would start it get my hot water make coffee and relax.
I have been at it for about two hours by then.
Almost dark. Vancouver snow is falling, big wet heavy flakes that pile deep quickly.
I cut a few more boards in the old wood work shop, then brought them into the fireroom to cut into smaller boards.
I cut through four boards and had to rest. My arm was tired and I out of breath again.
Got Done
I am not fooling anyone, including me. I am going to saw all the boards cause that’s who I am. It will hurt but it will get done. Needs doing.
Hard to cut in the dark and none too safe. It was a lot warmer today. You can tell by the fluffy snow. Sure as hell somewhere south of here was getting freezing rain on top of yesterdays snow. That will be a mess.
Solar panels buried at least 8 inches of fresh snow.
I am all done work and play today. I am experiencing backageddon. Or is that 50 shades of pain.
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