Back at the ‘Stead

And I found a use for the new heater that wasn’t planned.  

It’s installed right alongside the wood burner, and there is a drip line over that.   Whelp, all of the shit I was wearing this morn is soaking wet, and is now hanging there and that little heater is cranking out the goods, drying my kit out.   running abouut 75% humidity in the house (which is actually lower than outside) and the temps are cozy and definitely warmer than out.  Kids are SPRAWLED everywhere, fully enjoying the ‘summery house’.  Even Voo,,, though after a few minutes, had to get up and wander to his usual digs under my bed: I guess it was too warm for dawgum,,,,

Still ‘blech-y’ outside, and those temps DID plummet into the mid-sixties.   Forewarning of a rough winter approaching me thinks.   Good deal I have back up heat to my woodburner if thats the case.  Certainly is nice to be able to ‘pull heat up’ on demand and not need to build a fire and warm a stove up before being able to enjoy the warm.   

And I am really running this thing through it’s paces today.  Did not close up the house, just shut a couple windows, but let the door stand wide open.   I didn’t want the heat to slack off until things were dried out.   Even so, after 20 minutes, the flames tapered down as the T-stat warmed up and throttled back the flow.   And the areas I was most concerned about, Galley, Bedroom, are almost uncomfortably warm right now.  That ceiling fan is really moving the heat around to the outskirts of the house.  That’s not new, but since the locations of the are ‘offset’ from the stove, I was wondering how it would do.   Good to go!!! The one thing that this heater won’t do that the woodburner does excellently: this’un doesn’t keep my coffee pot at the ready. May have to come up with a rack over it for that purpose,,,,

I’m loading the wetsuits up in Buffalo.  I wasn’t expecting that chill today and even my shorty suit would have made my time out there comfortable.   Hypothermia can kill, and CAN hit you when you least expect it.  I wasn’t hypothermic, but I wasn’t all that far from it either.  That I had so many typos (mostly reversed letters) tells me I was closer than I realized, then.   And to think I was sweating bullets just this past Saturday while paddling: taking dips to cool off, not warm up like today,,,  wow.

I guess ‘the dog days of august’ are over an we are quickly heading into fall.   Seems a might early, but then, we did have an early spring. 

And as I get older, it seems the clock speeds up; years go by so much faster than I recall as a punk teenager, or the dragging of months when even younger. I remember thinking 24 days to Christmas was a LIFETIME, and now, 24 days slip by me before I can catch my breath,,,, So those feelz I have been having,,,, The ‘routine’,,, I think this all ties together: the speeding up of time, the routiine, the feeling like I am not moving, just existing,,,, Hard to describe it properly since there are conflicting aspects to it, (like being angry, and happy about it,,,)

Or maybe I am just frillin’ krazzeees and none of this is actually happening but the hallucinations I am having while in my padded cell.

And somedays that feels just as likely,,,, The only thing that keeps me from falling deep into that theory: there is NO WAY I would hallucinate certain people in power,,, I could see me hallucinating Willie Nelson in the Oval office, but not slo-jo,,,,

or they are manipulating my drip and have a recording playing in the background with suggestions,,,,

Maybe I just need a Vakay,,,, LOL My kittehs HATEZ it when I take vakay,,,, Unk doesn’t play the ‘feed me this’ game: its just kibble in bowl, you’ll eat or starve. That drives Mamakat batty.

HOPEFULLY, it’s back at it tomorrow, Won’t affect this paycheck (that I deposited on way to lake) but get me a good start to next week: fingers crossed. But for now, its back to the writing gig, trying to get these two books straightened out, cleaned up, and ready for someone to go through and rip me a new one with all the ‘these typos are attrocious’ and ‘you need to re-write pages XX through YYZ, and leave out the silly-bugger games,,,,”

more tomorrow,,, work to do now, (that may pay, maybe,,,)