I am pretty tired tonight. I would go in and drive but for that. I barely got two hours of sleep last night, and those were broken up. I drove today and earned a bit, but nothing to be proud of. But by the time I was on my way home, I was near falling asleep then, and I don’t want to combat the feeling I have now, whihc is much worse. So, I will sit and think on a screen.
I turned in the parts for the Cobalt today and got the gaskets I need for the Honda. I still had money leftover after to return to my account. How nice. I forgot how much I spent trying to get that car to run again. Having the exchange done, I feel a lot better. I don’t know. It is just such a relief. I hope they are the correct gaskets, but I don’t get to know for sure till our oldest gets here to help work on the Honda.
Honestly, I would love to go work in the shop or go to bed, but neither one of those would be a good idea right now where I am proned to silly thinking and accidents, and where I am thinking it is too early to try to get some sleep as I will end up awake all over again tonight.
I aksed Missus about some gloves this evening. She said she has what I need, which is white ones I can put over my hands when I load them up with Bag Balm to sleep in. I have such dry skin and want to do something about it, but am not comfortable to do that without covering before bed. I don’t want to mess everything in the bed up, and I don’t want to try to sleep with my hands hanging over the edge, as that just means light sleep trying not to pull them in and mess things up.
I feel so tired!
It has been raining quite a lot today. I thought of it because I looked at the front window, and it is raining right down it right now. Looks like it would make a high detailed blurry image.
I could rest and record. I would be tempted to record that video I have the script done for, and get it up to YouTube. It is my “bridge” video. It is to bring the channel up to date and get me ready to record new videos with some regularity. I don’t know. I watched a guy this morning who makes some entertaining homestead vids, and he says he has been messing about with it for years, only to recently be monetized. Made it sound like it is not worth the effort. But I do wnat to try it out. I would rather be recording videos than relying just on DoorDashing for an income. I would even more so like to be photographing families and such than that. But a guy has to do what he can do. He can advertize his business on his channel, me thinks.
The woodshop is no danger to be in as far as using the hand tools goes. What I am most afraid of is going out there and making a huge mistake. I mean, it is hard to make huge ones with hand tools, but I am so tired, I think I still could, and I am not up to tring to round up the wood to replace a piece or fix it.
Another thing I could be doing out there, but won’t: Sharpening the shears. I have some lovely Lister shears I bout to do the llamas with. But not long after I got them, someone found out I had them, and wanted to try them out on their sheep. The sheep had massive amounts of lanolin and sand and dirt in the wool, and the shears got ruined. I think kiddie scissors would be sharper. I have stones for the handplanes and chisels these days, so I think I have an idea of how to use them to bring a keen edge back to the blades. I used the retractable extension cord yesterday and know how far it will reach across the yard. I have another cord that would make up the difference to get the shears working in the shearing pen without having to send it through the door or a window of the house and having to fight with the cats. Oh, the little problems that have cleared themselves up over the years!
Last night when I was lay awake and unable to get back to sleep, I tried an audiobook. The one I picked was the first of the Laura Engles books, about their cabin in the woods of Wisconsin. Well now, that was fascinating! First off because og how the environment of the cabin and the surrounding woods and the animal life was described. Secondly because of how much she described of putting food up in 1871. They had a lot of work to do! They even used a standing hollow log to smoke their meat in. It was really fascinating how they put food in the panrty, but then in various placesa round the house, too. Trying to imagine how they would keep the food without intrusion from rodents and insects was solved of course by the cold weather they put it all up in. I guess if everything goes dormant first, then you don’t have to worry quite so much. But then, face it, if the winter drew on and the food did not, then eating things with bugs in it might become a better alternative to starving.
I am sure there was some sort of story line in there, but I was honestly captivated by the methods and what they did to survive. I probably could not sleep for that time just because of that.
Wilder is a sort of interesting author to go back to, because I think she influneced this blog from the very beginning of our farm journey. Of course, at that time I only had the TV series to go off of. But there is a story to tell about our contemporary lives. Laura must have recorded a lot later for posterity as it felt like a lot of it was written to prreserve it through a sudden change, as though she saw it coming. And that’s what suggests she did it after. Of course, thinking on it, she does tell that at the time of the winter of 1871, she was nine years old, so that would be a kind of a give-away.
I wil record thaty video in a day or two, I think. I am not coherent enough to do it now. Even reading it, I think I would botch it all up. Missus is going to get up at 7PM. I’ll get the gloves from her, then go up to bed. That’s a little less than an hour from now.
Except Missus has not gone to sleep yet, and she is getting them now, and I am going to go to bed! Goodnight!
