This morning it appeared as though the sun was going to shine. There was an inch of snow on the ground. An hour later it was snowing again. I thought, a good day for getting indoor work done, particularly since it was the first day of daylight savings time, spring ahead fall behind and all that.

I did work on Shelf Life, revising and going with Christopher’s most recent comments. He’s on target with his suggestions – I was just being lazy about expanding upon two events, the communal lunch hour at VCRS and our all getting together at a local bar for after work drinks. Now that I think of this, I need to do even more revision.

Working on anything lengthy should be like working on a poem. Every, word, sentence, line is significant. There are a lot of ho hum writers around and I don’t want to be one.

Okay. So I moved on to working on BLBP stuff – lists upon lists upon lists. Tomorrow is going to be a different sort of day. Josh the farrier is scheduled to come at 10:00 a.m. and trim and reshoe the horses. Pete did plow the driveway so he will have access.

It takes time, plowing the driveway and various paths.

I split wood, using the splitter. The splitter is one of the best inventions of humankind. Now if we had to do this with a maul and by hand, we would not be able to be wood sufficient. Someone else would have to do this, in which case we’d have to pay them big bucks. Or we would have to come up with an alternative heat source.

I was efficient – I set aside split wood, and I put it in muck buckets and brought it directly into the house. So we have enough spruce wood on hand now to last us the week.

One thing about no longer working at home – we burn less wood. Our heat is provided by someone else. The former banquet room of the historic Eagle Hotel is often quite hot. We use a lot of electricity, what with lights and now an air purifier. But this is covered in our monthly bill. We also use their bathroom facilities.

It does take time, getting wood.

I also began cleaning the goat pen. I will not say how long ago it was that I last cleaned the pen. I’m ashamed to say that I set a record. There was a layer of hay on top of the soiled bedding, and this was keeping the goats warm. I removed it as well as the older bedding – maybe a mistake because I think that they’ll be colder. I am hoping (there is that word again) that it will get warmer – we are still experiencing sub O˚ F temperatures at night.

Pete is now making dinner. Living healthy sure takes time.

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