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greenstormWell, I did the seed cleaning, had a day in bed, did the pottery class, then the next morning I went and got straw (my usual straw folks were almost out, and it was a no-rain weather window, so I wanted it done before they sold out and/or it settled in raining). I'm glad I got it done but my goodness am I not well enough to do that.
Not only did I have trouble thinking my way through stacking straw (only got 27 bales on the truck instead of the 32ish I could have) but the rest of that day and all yesterday (and maybe the next day? I'm kind of lost on time) was very serious pain as well as very wobbly, trouble standing up, every bone in my skull hurt, muscles just on all kinds of strike. I barely got the pigs fed, and the pharmacy messed up my pills and I haven't yet figured out how to call them and explain.
But things are a lot closer to comfy for winter.
I haven't had a chance to clean the chimney through a combination of doing other things/body stuff and "ripening tomatoes on every surface including the woodstove" so the house had been running on electric heat. That's also generally rough on my body since I can't get into the tiny fine fins on the baseboard heaters to clean them, and they have a mix of cat dander and dust from my time in the house and some sort of perfume from previous owners. Even with filters running it isn't great on the air quality.
All that said, it's absolutely gorgeous out right now. The dark conifers loom between bright yellow-orange aspens that basically glow. The ducklings from before my trip down south and the more recent hatch of chicks are running around being silly and cute (the chicks are starting to feather out) and alternating windy dark and sun keep blowing past.
The sauerkraut I put together is bubbling nicely, I finally managed to leave a couple inches of clear brine at the top and tuck the shredded cabbage in with a whole leaf, like you're supposed to, so it isn't molding.
I would really like to be spending time on the wheel but I definitely need to slow down other stuff before I do too much of that.
My headache is still firmly in place and looking at screens makes my eyes feel both bruised and like they've been peeled, so I'm going to stop for now.
Not only did I have trouble thinking my way through stacking straw (only got 27 bales on the truck instead of the 32ish I could have) but the rest of that day and all yesterday (and maybe the next day? I'm kind of lost on time) was very serious pain as well as very wobbly, trouble standing up, every bone in my skull hurt, muscles just on all kinds of strike. I barely got the pigs fed, and the pharmacy messed up my pills and I haven't yet figured out how to call them and explain.
But things are a lot closer to comfy for winter.
I haven't had a chance to clean the chimney through a combination of doing other things/body stuff and "ripening tomatoes on every surface including the woodstove" so the house had been running on electric heat. That's also generally rough on my body since I can't get into the tiny fine fins on the baseboard heaters to clean them, and they have a mix of cat dander and dust from my time in the house and some sort of perfume from previous owners. Even with filters running it isn't great on the air quality.
All that said, it's absolutely gorgeous out right now. The dark conifers loom between bright yellow-orange aspens that basically glow. The ducklings from before my trip down south and the more recent hatch of chicks are running around being silly and cute (the chicks are starting to feather out) and alternating windy dark and sun keep blowing past.
The sauerkraut I put together is bubbling nicely, I finally managed to leave a couple inches of clear brine at the top and tuck the shredded cabbage in with a whole leaf, like you're supposed to, so it isn't molding.
I would really like to be spending time on the wheel but I definitely need to slow down other stuff before I do too much of that.
My headache is still firmly in place and looking at screens makes my eyes feel both bruised and like they've been peeled, so I'm going to stop for now.
