{"id":12503,"date":"2026-02-01T03:21:48","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T08:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=12503"},"modified":"2026-02-01T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T05:31:16","slug":"sun-feb-1-2026-second-month-already","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/02\/01\/sun-feb-1-2026-second-month-already\/","title":{"rendered":"Sun. Feb. 1, 2026 &#8211; second month already"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cold and cold.  Hopefully clear so that it gets a little warmer later.   Yesterday didn&#8217;t get much warmer.  It was 40s and 50sF all day and the breeze was bone chilling.<\/p>\n<p>I did get a couple of things done.   Got up at a reasonable time, for me, for a weekend.  Did some cleanup.  I cleaned a felt hat for me that I picked up a while ago.  It&#8217;s been in my storage unit since then.  Now I&#8217;m wearing it.  It&#8217;s a soft felt packable fedora, with a wider brim than my other ones.  Took some work to get the spots off of it but it looks good now.   And I cleaned a pair of shoes for resale.  Nice Prada driving moccasins.  They&#8217;re too small for me but look nice after cleaning, reshaping, and conditioning.   <\/p>\n<p>Did some other home stuff then did my pickup.  It was just down the road so it wasn&#8217;t a big commitment.  I got three new galvanized steel buckets.   Buckets are an important but undervalued prep, and plastic ones will break or degrade and then break.  Long term prepping says &#8220;you better have some buckets that will last.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Took a load from storage to the shop too.  I&#8217;ve still got a lot of stuff in the unit.  I made some more room in the shop with some more sorting and condensing, so maybe today I&#8217;ll get another load or two taken over.   I should do some work on the patio or the driveway here too, but the cold makes it very painful to work outdoors.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what else I do, I&#8217;ll find something on the list to chip away at.  <\/p>\n<p>Stack something.  Learn something.  Stay busy.<br \/>\nnick<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold and cold.  Hopefully clear so that it gets a little warmer later.   Yesterday didn&#8217;t get much warmer.  It was 40s and 50sF all day and the breeze was bone chilling.<\/p>\n<p>I did get a couple of things done.   Got up at a reasonable time, for me, for a weekend.  Did some cleanup.  I cleaned a felt hat for me that I picked up a while ago.  It&#8217;s been in my storage unit since then.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2026\/02\/01\/sun-feb-1-2026-second-month-already\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Sun. Feb. 1, 2026 &#8211; second month already &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,83,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-decline-and-fall","category-march-to-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12504,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12503\/revisions\/12504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}