Been trying to get ahead of this winter storm. I pulled siding off a while back to work on the plumbing. I got a bit left to replace and fix today. It's been slow going. I can do about a good hours work a day, an hours worth of what I used to do. Now it takes all day to get it done. Spurts of 15 minutes or 10 minutes then rest up. I don't get cold much anymore, I'm constantly steaming about the limitations!
I've got a couple hours left to do what I can before the wind kicks up. You would hope, after having raised a family and helped out however and where ever you could, someone would help you out... hmmmm..... I guess not.
Off to the time crunch salt mines....
Take care out there.
I hear you. I cut a load of firewood yesterday ( nice dry maple tops ) for the next bout of global warming and not only couldn't I sleep because every muscle was cramping and screaming but today I move through the world in slo motion. Then again, most days are barely above slo motion anyway.
ReplyDeleteYou must be a fur piece off. Maple wood is expensive down here. Maybe I can run some mesquite and oak up there and trade sometime. Keep warm, and keep moving. Don't stove up and lose muscle tone. That's been the hardest part to deal with after my lungs went out. I used to work10 rest 1, now I rest 10:1 or 20:1.
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North east. Lots of maple, lots of oak, no mesquite. My favorite Calvin and Hobbs line - Calvin expounds, "Teddy Roosevelt said do what you can with what you have with where you are." Hobbs dose of reality, "but he wasn't in the bath tub when he said it." Or as an Englishman I worked for used to say, "keep your pecker up."
ReplyDeleteYes sir, maple down here is almost exclusively used for furniture. Probably get horse whipped if you burned it. Burr oak, pin oak, blackjack, live oak is all over for the asking. Furniture grade mesquite goes for a pretty penny normally. Big burls are worth major money. Folks still use it to bbq, too.
DeleteThose two quotes remind me of a story about woodpeckers.
I hope it goes well STxAR, and you are able to get the last bit of work done. I am done with what we can do here and we are shopped up; front blew in late this morning.
ReplyDeleteI still need to run get some eggs. I figure I'll make cookies in a bit. Got to us around 1500, and it's down to 37, wind chill is about 20. Bitter cold. I'm way out of practice for this type weather.
DeleteVery normal up in Lubbock county. I've done sweaty rides to scruel in the bus in shirt sleeves, front moves in, thunderstorm, hail, freezing rain and snow in a single day. The ride home was cold.... Miserable cold. I don't remember all the weather talk being so available back then.
My either - While it did not get down to the cold we are experiencing but seldom, we were regularly in the low to mid thirties growing up. I do not remember it being a "thing", other than bundling up.
DeleteEverything seems to be a "bomb", "cyclone", "atmospheric river" or other apocalyptic name now (has to fit the narrative). We used terms like "blue norther", "cold front", "rain is setting in for a bit" when I was a kid. We'd bundle up and get after the chores any which way. Getting out of the wind was paramount, then and now. I filled up the truck last night. I stood out of the wind by the little kiosk building. The lady looked all worried as I walked up. I yelled I was just getting out of the wind. She looked very relieved after I said that. Learned behavior for me, way out of the ordinary for her. She grew up here most likely.
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