Author: Rod

January 1 2025

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Friedrich Nietzsche First day. I decided to wait to light a fire. All rooms here still reporting plus temperature. Tonight it will be -32c. Tommorrow day time temps not much better. I still plan to gather snow today. Tomorrow will…


New Years Eve 2024

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. Oprah Winfrey What a day. Somehow food was delivered, with more catfood and more wood pellets. It really hurt to carry everything inside. It all started yesterday with a few phone calls. One to UFA and another to the manager of…


Dec 29 Yesterday

My lungs are worse again today. I just did a snow gathering. I was out of breath before just carrying the empty bowl and sauce pan. The cold air didn’t help. I filled the giant bowl and a saucepan with packed heavy snow. I saw little black bits in the snow. Filter? YES YES AND…


Dec 28 Breathing Again

The breathing is worse than it is ever been. Just getting the gen running left me so breathless I could only manage a shuffle back to my office. Cats were fed and watered anyways cause it needed doing. As long as I draw breath they will be fed. I just retrieved the gen from outside….


Dec 28 Keep On

Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going. Sam Levenson Another day still breathing. If you call it that. Cats are fed. I am hesitant to light a fire. Low on wood, low on food, low on fuel for my camp stove and generator It is plus 5 in the coldest room in…


Dec 26 The Big Melt

We build statues out of snow, and weep to see them melt. Walter Scott Today I need to make many trips up to my shop. Yesterday I filled the giant bowl with snow and left it up there where it was safe from potty toed cats. I am melting snow in a saucepan. First for…


Dec 25 2024

My breakfast started at 11:30 PM Christmas eve. I opened a jar of baby pickles. That made me think of the song below. I miss my bikes. It is 11:00 AM. The cats are fed some of them got water, some got snow. I barely have enough for the last cup of coffee or contemplate…


Christmas Eve Day

The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried. G.K. Chesterton I do not belive that Jesus was born today. Do I believe he lived? Absolutlety. Everybody has differing opinions on this. I repect most of them. Do your own research, find your truth. I feel…


Dec 23 Such an Ash hole

I think the song itself, ‘Smoke and Fire,’ is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship. Sabrina Carpenter Yup today it was Ash Day. The bottom of my woodstove had 14 inches of ash. That all had to be shoveled out. It was a nasty terrible, lung clogging job, even…


Dec 22 Fogged

My trumpeting sounds like a goose farting in the fog. Alex O’Loughlin It is foggy again. I can see bluesky. All my solar panels see is more thick fog. They are not making enough to power a flashlight. I could run the gen but I am running out fuel that is already old. Same with…