I lay there in my bed just a few minutes ago and found myself slowly arriving at consciousness, thinking that perhaps I had made it, and it was close to six in the morning. I even started to congratulate myself for it. Surely, I was not waking up slowly unless I made it to the finish line for a night’s sleep. I would not be so stupid. Would I? Usually when I wake up at three, I sort of just pop out of sleep and then try to lay there and go back to sleep, till nature calls too loudly, and I have to go downstairs to the loo. Nature was calling. Dammit! Three Anno Domini!
Now I have been down, done my business, moved laundry from the washer to the dryer, and put a log into the stove, and now I am typing, typing, typing.
I got down to the firewood supply in Logan yesterday and picked up another trailer full of wood. It was not so hard to get it filled up on my own. I think that putting that spare boat winch I have lying about would help to get the heavy ones up the ramp. That is the hard part. Once I get the logs up the ramp, there is stacking them more than a layer up. But even getting a layer on the trailer is a good start towards a warm winter.
I got a ton of wood, and as all the logs I gathered were dry, that is a pretty good total volume. Just need to get it cut and split now, but that is a lot better done here on the pile at home than having the wood down at the dump waiting to freeze to the ground and get impossible to pick up and bring home. I will get the wood sorted. I need to prioritize the gathering for now. I did not unload the trailer because I was tired. I’ll have to get that done before next Tuesday.
I put the new part on the chainsaw, and it drives the chain like new. It made a big difference, and I was sawing like crazy out at the dump. I didn’t do a lot, but what I did do went really well. I actually look forward to getting at the rest of the wood here.
I took Missus down to teacher her 4H class and took our youngest with me to go visit the kids in town. They had stopped by yesterday morning to visit, but I was on the way out to get the wood, so I could not stick around. I wanted to make up for it. It turns out they are good for our grandson to go Trick or Treating with us, so he will spend the night this weekend, and I can take him with when I take my youngest out to the city. That ought to be a fun couple of hours out.
It has been about an hour since I began waking. I need to get the last couple of hours of sleep.