YOU MAY BE WONDERING,,,

HAT AM I UP TO?

Not a lot today as I woke up to the sky crying...buckets of tears.  We need some rain so Im ok with it...hope it stops later and I can get out to bring in my wood for the night without getting soaked.   I have a fire burning now using what was left from overnight.  

I woke up and got up at 6:30 am.  Lately my new bedtime is 9 pm so by 6:30 am, Ive gotten a long sleep....not always the case as some nights I toss n turn.  Since I've been itching and taking Benadryl almost nightly I sleep better but I dream A LOT.  The latest was me completely taking apart my riding mower and hiding the parts in a 3 story movie theater.  I was riding up and down the elevator, and in the end I dumped all the nuts n bolts and screws an entire bucket full in the trash can!  So please tell me what that meant??

This morning as I type my sis is getting cataract surgery on one eye...It's a quick procedure but she had to get up at 5 am and travel about 68 miles west.  My other sis is driving her...I wish I was there to help in some way....especially with Jimmy the dog...he is a diabetic he has to have shots twice a day and eye drops too he had a lense replacement himself last year.  So I could have done that to help out.  I am just waiting on the she is fine and its all done text.  They plan to stop at McDonalds so she can get some breakfast probably a drive thru Im not sure she will feel up to walking inside.  I just wish I was there to show my support and love...I will be on pins n needles till that text comes in. Thought I heard it but it was one of the dogs snoring.  Then I realized she has an hour of wake up from the anesthesia to go thru before I hear anything. Jimmy the dog went with them so he is waiting in the car. Life is a three ring circus sometimes. 

Meanwhile I watched Slim Potatohead's video on his continued cabin restoration in New Brunswick Canada.  It was a smash if you want to see it click here..  I totally enjoyed it and the progress is amazing from his first video of the cabin...this is the 3rd in that series.  I wish he would concentrate on the cabin and forget the travel videos for now, cause this cabin is way  more interesting.  Since I did the renovation on this house mostly by myself I can relate to what he is doing.  I lost MOST of my reno photos when Flickr got too expensive for my blood, and I closed my account and then found out later the ext hard drive I had all those photos on would not work!! So I demo'd most of the sunroom framing and started over, new windows, and completely removed the floor in my bathroom and redid all the plumbing...he was replacing a rotten beam.  I had to repair rotten places in my floor and subfloor in the Dining room, the kitchen and the bath.  I had to put down floor in the rear entry move a wall, install window and doors, and put up sheetrock, put down wood flooring in the Bar, Bathroom and rear entry...I DID A LOT electrical, plumbing, framing, painting of course and trim work.  

Sometimes I wish I had another big project to do, I actually have one that needs attention... I need to roof my barn. but I can't afford it. And my house needs a new roof that is beyond my capability at this point in my life.  Im glad I built my tool/storage/work shed while I could still sling a hammer, and climb a ladder with a 2 x 4 on my shoulder...the same sister in surgery today helped me with most of that project in early 2017. 

Many of the folks on the west side of Canada in BC are having a tough time with flooding and mud slides, sink holes and just weather disasters.  They had a lot of wild fire this past summer, so mud slides go hand in hand with burned off hillsides...Many roads are closed and there is a rush on the stores for supplies since trucks are not making deliveries, one can see HOW fast the shelves will empty in that situation...I recall when we had a black out in NYC that lasted about 3 days the shelves were nearly bare and most stores were closed the entire time anyways...without electric you can't ring things  up, you can't see, and there is no heat or AC and so they just close down...the frozen foods were dumped...Im not sure if areas in BC lost electric but I did see the long lines on a Youtuber's video. 

Our society as we know it can come to a screeching halt in a matter of days it would take only a month for the entire system to fail completely.  

Yesterday I picked up my script and then stopped at Bramblewood to do a little birding and take my walk.  It was warm I guess this rain coming in was pushing some warm air along in front.  I did enjoy myself, saw 19 species of bird. Lots of song sparrow. 

So that's a catch up on what's happening in my personal life.