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Lonestar belt buckles and old faded Levi’s and each night begins a new day

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Podrick, while being good, and letting me sleep, was an asshole as well. Crystal got out of bed to see what the hell he was doing, and he was eating the dried pasta that was to be for dinner last night. We changed our mind, and had something different. We were gonna have it tonight. I’ll stop at the tiny grocery store today, and pick up another bag.

He’s a terror when we first get up.

I’m pretty sure he’s unhinged, without supervision.

I went over to Shady Acres to finish the assembly of the cleaned stove. It too about an hour or so to get it all put back together. I wouldn’t be me, unless I made a mess, and lost a piece. I was just so clumsy in a window of about 5 minutes. I got everything cleaned up, and with the help of my dad, we got it turned on, and we watched the pellets fall into the trough.

Finally, the spark. It fired up, and we watched to make sure everything was working properly. I was worried, I had done 90% of the work. I’m not mechanically inclined. But the stove kept doing what it was designed to do. I got out to the truck, and sent Crystal a text message.

I came home, and we had some lunch, and we didn’t do anything for the balance of the day. And that’s ok, because it’s cold out, and we are warm blooded people. We did have a laugh at the iguanas falling out of trees in Florida. They actually have “iguana watch”, and warn people of falling lizards.

Let’s see what today brings.

A couple of pretty flowers is what I brought to you

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Good morning my southern friends. It’s me, Shawshank. You know, north of the wall. How’s the weather down there? It looks pretty calm right now. But later? Who knows!

Podrick was nice enough to let me sleep until about 7:20ish. That seems to be about the time he wants us up nowadays. That pretty much works for me. Would it be nice to sleep until 8? Yes ma’am it would. But I’ll take what I can get. And if the means 7:20, I’m totes ok with that.

I’m on a couple of days off. Today( I’ll be heading to Shady Acres to finish up the pellet stove. I just have to put a pipe thing back on and an upside down lid thing, and with my skill, should be ready to introduce fire to the stove. Shouldn’t take more than maybe an hour? We’ll see how quick my dad will be moving this morning.

I still have to finish Raw from last night.

It’s also Remembrance Day here. So I’ll talk to my grampa a little later.

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The larks, still bravely singing, fly

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

 Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

 In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

 In Flanders fields.

My father yells, “What you gonna do with your life?”

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Back to work this afternoon. But just tomorrow, then I’ll have the next two days off. Schedules are weird.

It’s been a pretty nice weekend. We didn’t do a whole lot of anything. My father and I worked on getting the pellet stove. Now, all we have to do is put it all back together, which we’ll do on Tuesday morning, when I’m off again. Then, it should be ready to be loaded with pellets, and be turned on.

Other than that, we watched Yellowstone. I’ve seen I think up to season 4, and Crystal has watch up to like episode 4 or 6 of season one. We just hit season two last night. Then after, as a brain cleaner, we watched some Vine compilations.

Podrick was pretty good this morning. After I kicked him off the night table, I closed the door and pressed a weight against the door, so it wouldn’t rattle, and I slept for another half hour or so. Now we’re on the couch, and Podrick is working out some excess energy. He has so much energy!

More coffee, pls.

And the beer I had for breakfast wasn’t bad

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Here we are. Podrick was mostly good this morning. A somewhat loud noise pulled me out of sleep, and I come out to the living room. Stuff is pulled out of the bookcase, so I picked up the stuff, and threw some kibble into a bowl and went back to bed, closing the door. I dozed for another hour, and then got out of bed.

Yesterday was so nice and relaxing. I got up and filled up the bird feeder, and suctioned it to the front window. Hopefully, some birds, and maybe even some deer will come and feed from it, so the kitties are entertained.

We did do a whole lot of anything yesterday. I watched the first couple of episodes of 1883 – since when Crystal watched, I came in half way through episode 5. I think we finished watching either episode 5 or 6. It’s such a good show. We watched other shows after. Nothing special, just relaxing. I did the laundry, and I’ll do the rest of the chores this morning, before we head over to Shady Acres. I’ll have chores to do there too.

I slept ok last night. It’s still anxiety inducing because my mind tries to figure out what he’s getting into. Same in the morning, because I can hear him getting into things. I have a blue tooth headset like Crystal’s that I’m going to try. Hopefully any noise I have coming through the speakers, will drown out his noise, and not cause my anxiety to spike.

It’s still cold out there. I’m pretty sure it’s gonna be cold for the next 8 months, so I better started getting used to it. It’s no longer sunny. It just looks crisp out there, and not in a beautiful spring day. Think; frozen wasteland. But soon once actual snow falls, it’ll be pretty outside for a while.

On a warm summer’s evening on a train bound for nowhere

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Here I am. Tired and groggy. Podrick was awake a little early this morning, and wanted to get into trouble. For the first time in at least a couple of days, I had to lock him out of the bedroom. I tried to not do that, but after the second time fucking rounding the nightstand. I close the door.

From 5-7:20 when I got out of bed, slept came but at a cost. It was a light sleep where any noise work me up. I couldn’t breathe at all through my nose. So I had to sleep a certain way. Then I couldn’t get comfortable. Then it was too hot. The first part of my sleep – 11 to maybe 4:30ish was dead, then my face plugged up and yep, that’s when slowly moved into either being mostly awake or a light ass sleep.

I am not leaving the house today.

It’s cold out, first cold snap of the winter.

15°. Feels like 6°.

Double champs! Oh, Canada!