28 November 2023

I’ve probably slept more in the last couple days than I have in months, it astonishes me that the body can work in such a way that there is some sort of reserve energy which isn’t calorie based that I can pull from. Hopefully things go well today with daycare and I can continue catching up on sleep though I’m prepared for them to recommend in the first couple days to only leave a child for a couple hours. One is more than zero, I’m grateful for whatever I can get. After that my work focus will be fencing though that’s a project that will be stretched out over Winter and even then I’m hoping to finish before Spring. We went out together with my Army buddies to get a Christmas tree and now it’s time to decorate, my long term storage for things like annual decorations is in a barn down the hill. In the back of my mind I’m planning how to get the decorations into the house, whether I need the wheel barrow or I’ll carry boxes individually over time. Some day it will be good to have a utility vehicle like a John Deere Gator, a weak link in my chain is the ability to carry weight over distances and it’s compensated with my sweat. About a month ago I made a video picking up rocks, there was a pile of rocks on my land I wanted to clean up and was repurposing the rocks to build a dam for the pond. With the rocks I hit a ceiling for what I can do with my wheel barrow, there were more rocks than it can hold in a single trip and when full I struggled to move it. There was a lot I learned from that experience as I do from all the work I take on. “I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.”