Cold and wet.\u00a0 Rain on the plain, and the plane, and the horse’s rein for that matter……<\/p>\n
Monday was mostly cloudy, misty drizzle, and occasional patches of nice.\u00a0 Temps were in the 60s most of the day.<\/p>\n
Fairly early in the day heavy trash came and picked up the 11 bags of leaves and dead grass that I raked so the soreness from Saturday and Sunday’s exertions was worth it.\u00a0 But I am sore.<\/p>\n
I am really feeling every dumb thing I’ve ever done and every thing that ‘made me stronger’ over the years in weather like this.\u00a0\u00a0 Cold and damp when you have a ‘weather’ everything is no fun.\u00a0\u00a0 One of the reasons I live in a warm sunny place is that cold HURTS.\u00a0 Cold DAMP hurts too.<\/p>\n
Enough b!tching though, I’ve led a charmed life and wouldn’t be who I am today without the scar tissue and missing bits…\u00a0 I did learn a couple of months ago that if I want to be productive, I need to continue taking my maintenance meds though.\u00a0\u00a0 55 used to be OLD.\u00a0 Now it’s barely middle aged.\u00a0 Except on cold damp mornings.\u00a0 And when the NSAIDs run out.<\/p>\n
Grid down lots of things will run out.\u00a0\u00a0 Even in a long slow collapse, many things that are easily obtainable today will be hard to get.\u00a0 In my mom’s living memory, citrus fruit in winter was a luxury. \u00a0 Getting a single orange on Christmas was a very special treat when she was young. \u00a0 I remember as a kid getting a case of oranges or grapefruit from sales guys trying to bribe my dad at Christmas.\u00a0 A nice box of fruit was still an impressive gift for people of his generation well into the 1970s.\u00a0 That wasn’t that long ago.<\/p>\n
War adds another level of privation and suffering.<\/p>\n
The thing to keep in mind is that none of this worst case, or even ‘bad’ case is impossible.\u00a0\u00a0 And on a long enough timeline, it’s inevitable.\u00a0 Humans haven’t changed.\u00a0 Physical laws haven’t changed.\u00a0 Things tend to continue on, mostly the same, until they don’t.\u00a0 Then it all changes and usually very rapidly.<\/p>\n
When that happens it’s important to keep in mind that ‘nothing lasts forever’ and most people will get through it.\u00a0 That should be your goal, it’s mine- to get through it, whatever it<\/strong> might be.<\/p>\n Flexibility, preparation, strength, determination, knowledge, ‘tribe’, and stuff.\u00a0\u00a0 That will see you through.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stacking is the easy part.\u00a0\u00a0 Get to it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n nick<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Cold and wet.\u00a0 Rain on the plain, and the plane, and the horse’s rein for that matter……<\/p>\n Monday was mostly cloudy, misty drizzle, and occasional patches of nice.\u00a0 Temps were in the 60s most of the day.<\/p>\n Fairly early in the day heavy trash came and picked up the 11 bags of leaves and dead grass that I raked so the soreness from Saturday and Sunday’s exertions was worth it.\u00a0 But I am sore.<\/p>\n