Author: Rod

Feb 18 Colder?

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man. Heraclitus How could it feel colder? The wind. I was doing my morning things I do everyday. I went out to gather snow, it was brutally cold. It felt like -40 but in real…


Feb 17 The Guardian Cont’d

    Another day. Pellets moved from the shop to the fireroo along with another bag of catfood. More cardboard fire starter boxes as well. Pellets, cardboard and pallet wood loaded in the fire box. The fire was stated. Five big bowls of snow gathered and brought inside. The fire was lit using my new…


Feb 16 The Guardian

Guardian of the melting snow bowls.


Feb 15 Hope

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness. Desmond Tutu It seems these days all I really possess is hope. Just finished my morning chores, brought in a 40 pound bag of wood pellets, brought in a wood pallet, collected carboard boxes, fed cats, watered cats, put the…


Feb 13 Melting more


Feb 4-6 Cold & Coughing

I haven’t written in here for awhile. Mostly health and the cold. Feb 6: Chores are mostly done. Out of catfood. Good news there are 8 bags at the post office and I have an offer to drive in to get them.


Jan 22 4 feet to go

In my weakest day so far. Cats got fed, snow was gathered twice and a forty pound bag of pellets carried then loade into the firebox. I decided again it was too warm to light the fire. That left me with a big bowl of snow to melt. Right now it was in an unheated…


Trump Day

This is the day it all went wrong.


Jan 19 Bloody Grizzly

Endurance is not just the ability to bear a hard thing, but to turn it into glory. William Barclay My chest sounds like a grizzly snoring. I am very weak, slightly disoriented. I carried a 40 pond bag of pellets in from the garage. I was out of breath the whole 100 footstep trip. I…


Jan 18 Severly Fooked

The extreme coughing fit I had a few days ago shredded the inside of my throat and voice box. I can not speak. As I got out of bed I discovered I can’t walk. I have no balance. I felt pain in my ears last night. My best guess it has spread to my inner…