Author: Rod

Jan 17 Back Breakin’

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it! Charlie Chaplin After the last two days of extreme coughing I had work to do. So I moved 3 heavy bags of wood pellets inside. Then moved one of those into the fire box and spread them. Next up cat…


Jan 16 Health Days

My sore throats are always worse than anyone’s. Jane Austen I took a few days off for health. I had bad coughing fits, sore throat and chest pains. My eyesight is also off. I did howevever do a little work. My gen is outside running, p bottle emptied. Don’t ask and I won’t tell. My…


Jan 14 Real Coffee

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. Colin Powell I am minutes away from a real cup of coffee, with powdered whole milk. Yesterday a neighbor took me in to pickup freight. After shuffling up the driveway with all the boxes and a lone gas can and getting…


Jan 11 Short Days, no Sun

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain’t goin’ away. Elvis Presley I got excited for a sec. My solar panels were making 12 Amps of power. Then came the clouds now I am making less a lot less. Still no gasoline. I just sent power to…


Jan 10 Gasoline

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second. Edward Abbey I am out of power, no sun, no gasoline. I tried evrything. I tried to siphon from my van, I tried tipping an old generator over a funnel. I tried using my hand powered gas pump on a 5…


Jan 9 For the Grader Good

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Martin Luther King, Jr. Normal morning, cats fed and watered, fire box stuffed with pellets, some wood, and paper. It didn’t look like it was going to light. The door could not be…


Jan 8 Pain

If you feel the pain you are alive. If you can feel other people’s pain, you are a human being. Leo Tolstoy My sunny day is here. Solar panels are producing. My batteries were at 23 percent I seem to remember that at 20 percent there is no power. The pain and fatigue is worse….


Jan 6 Power

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. Napoleon Hill Out of water again, i went out for a big a bowl of snow. I looked at a pair of solar panels that were covered im snow. I trudged through the 2 feet…


Jan 3 Fookin’ Crazy

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? Albert Einstein   Yup snother fire, gathered more snow. It is -28 with a breeze. That makes the windschill really f,in cold. Really crazy to go out wearing just sweat pants, bathrobe, summer gloves, and snow boots. As you will see…


Jan 2 Right Snowboot

Coincidence is God’s way of staying anonymous. Albert Einstein It is the way that things work that intrigues me. When I remove my snowboots, I have to take the right one off first. If I don’t, the inner insulated liner comes out. No big deal right. Wrong,  it takes me ten painful minutes to get…