I woke up to the sound of a tractor going back and forth and back and forth near my van.
So I poked my head out from underneath my blanket and saw Jim busily getting the tractor ready to load onto my trailer for a job that he needed to do.
I popped into the driver seat expecting to start the van, only to realize that I had accidentally left multiple devices charging overnight, which had completely drained the battery down, so there wasn’t even a hint of an attempt to start.
Fortunately, I had charged up all of my devices by that point, so I had the choice between using my lithium ion jump box or my old lead acid. Given the choice, I’ll use my lead acid any day, as all I have to do to charge it back up is leave it attached to my battery for maybe 30 to 60 seconds, and I’m good to go again, whereas the lithium ion, you have to plug into a different energy source because it can’t get its power directly from the charging system.
Anyway, I got the van started, and then I came out to see if there was anything I could do to help jim. He was already mostly done getting everything loaded up, but I was able to help him at least a tiny bit.
With all the junk I’ve been eating, I had to find a toilet, and I hadn’t put wood shavings or a fresh bag in Little John since emptying it probably 2 or 3 weeks ago, so I ended up hovering my big butt over yesterday’s coals, and then building A fire around the lovely droppings to burn them away.
Quite effective. 🙃
Starting the morning by refreshing yesterday’s fire (which I had spent trying to get an old hay bale going that had been dumped in the woods for whatever reason and had been very very slowly decomposing). Led to me spending a very large chunk of the day once again doing one of the things I do best–woods clean up.
So I turned on starlink and fired up JustAnswer and spent a large chunk of the morning through almost to evening gathering dead wood and throwing it in my poo burn pile.
Poo burn pile.
🙃
So I answered questions, and gathered wood, and cut up vine, and contaminated myself far too much with poison ivy I think 😬, and made a fairly good-sized dent in clearing a portion of the woods near the western spring that’s just adjacent to the rock shelf on the creek.
I only stopped because the rain started falling, and it was already a cold day, and I had been running around in shorts and a t-shirt, periodically stopping next to the fire to get warm.
But the rain would mean pretty much instant super-mild hypothermia, as well as soft muddy Fields if I didn’t drive out of them quickly, so….I drove out of them quickly. 🙃
One of my sisters suggested that I buy a blender, and I think I’m actually going to do that. I spent a good long time in the neighborhood market last night staring at all the frozen vegetables and fruits and noting down on a Google sheet the nutrition information and whatnot so I could make informed choices at a glance of what I wanted to make.
I’m going to be doing a smoothie fast as soon as I finish eating down the food that I already have.
So I’m going to be doing lots of raw fruits and vegetables, whizzed up in a blender. So as soon as my replacement power station, or whatever you call it, generator thingy, comes, I should be able to blend up some super great smoothies.
I messaged somebody on Facebook Marketplace about Ninja blender they are selling, and I might have low balled them a little too much, they didn’t reply after seeing my offer. 😅
Hopefully they’ll reply tomorrow. Maybe it was just too late. 🤞
I headed over to the Rogers Neighborhood Market, use the bathroom, and then ended up just going right back out to the parking lot instead of buying anything. Stayed in Rover doing work for JA for a while, while chatting with family in different parts of the country at the same time.
Had one customer today who was super stressed out working on either his mom or Grandma’s Toyota sienna. All of the sudden, the only window that worked was the driver’s window, and the other three just boom, stopped working.
He was about ready to start tearing the doors apart when I asked him if by chance someone might have accidentally pushed the window lock button.
🥳
Dude was super grateful when he pressed the button on the master switch, and found that all the windows started working again. 🎉
He was super grateful and super happy, albeit a little embarrassed.
I love being able to make a difference like that for people when they’re stressed out and worried they’re in the middle of a black hole, and they find out that it’s just super simple.
Headed off to the gym a little bit before midnight for bicep/back day, completing all four exercises, and moving up 10 lb on my lat pull down (chin-up grip).
So that was a win. 🥳
I didn’t do the cardio, so that was… not a win. 😅
But it was after 12:30, and I just wanted to be done for the day, so here I am back between the gas station and the Chinese restaurant.
I could really go for it all you can eat Chinese buffet right now. 🙃
Smoothie fast, Stephen, smoothie fast.
Don’t know what I weigh right now, probably somewhere around 185 or 190 lb, but I’d like to drop probably 7-10 lbs of fat? That’s just a guess.
I’ve also heard juice fasts can help with mental clarity, so that’s part of the motivation. I’ve had fog brain since my twenties.
It’s funny, and hard, and discouraging to see how poorly my brain functions compared to what it used to be able to do. 😅
Love and hugs.
Lift the world.
~ stephen
Lift the World 