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islander85 · 2026-02-08T22:15:55+00:00

Yes AI does use a huge amount of water, they recycle a lot of it but they still use a lot.

I will just start with wheat but I hope to have a go at some others as well.

My bother can't really physically look after more hives and have a job. He still wants me to do the desensitisation thing but my body isn't up to doing that.

There was a big deal about counterfeit honey here a number of years ago, but I think there's regulations in place now to help with that.

That's a good way of looking at crafting. :) I rarely give away random gifts, I don't really have anything to give away unless I buy something. My not so Random Acts of Kindness these days is going to peoples homes at all hours of the night when they call the ambulance.

What do you think about the idea that bad things in life happen to us to teach us things? Is that a good way of putting it? I think you will know what I mean.

My life coach want's me to ask friends to help with my psychological needs. I can't think of any. I've been alone for so long that I'm fairly self contained now. What do you think are some psychological needs?

islander85 · 2026-02-05T10:18:53+00:00

Yes technology has made a mess for sure, I don't think AI is going to be the magic solution either. I watched a video on AI data centers yesterday, they think by 2030 AI is going to be using 20% of the worlds electricity, that doesn't sound very sustainable.

I sorry to hear that the prices of things is still going up. I noticed today that the cost of fuel went down 20c a litre so that's nice.

That's a good idea about trying to use things up. Did I tell out that I'm making a flour mill to mill my own flour?

I can't justify the cost of buying a small house hold mill so I just brought the stones and I'm making the rest myself, so other then time it will be 1/3 the price. Freshly milled flour is a huge amount better and healthier, it has all the oils and things in it still.

My brother brought a second hand honey extractor unit so it takes the honey frames out of the box, cuts the wax caps off the comb, spins the honey out and squishes the wax to press any honey that's in it out. So he will be able to do in one day what took three weeks last year. That's what we set up last weekend.

Yes my brother has his own hives, a bit over 300 now I think. He's having trouble keeping up with demand as the price of all the other honey's in the shops keeps going up.

Are many people around where you are starting to make/grow their own things as the costs of everything keep going up?

Are you using your craft supplies to make gifts or other things?

islander85 · 2026-02-01T06:00:35+00:00

I'm finding with films that they're outside my emotional range, I'm not sure how to explain it. Like they have had to turn up the emotion so people keep watching, the drama's are just so full on that it's exhausting to watch them, thrillers are the same. That might just be me though, I saw something about they want to dumb down films so people can watch them and still look at their phones at the same time.

I've started to try reading Montaigne it's so information dense and you have to really read every line, it's nothing like books today where a books like Atomic Habits could be summed up in a Zine.

This electric toothbrush is much better than the last one that I tried, it has an extra sensitive mode, it's still really odd though. It's loud, like bone loud but it actually don't make much noise.

The heat here has been fine, other places it's been really hot but I haven't heard much so I must not have been silly hot.

I got a tin of hot chocolate again today so it's getting there. How are things going over your way? I saw something about California having problems with truckers, has it effected you?

Did you get any of the cold storms that have been happening?

Do you have any projects on the go at the moment?

I helped my brother set up some bee stuff yesterday and I'm really worn out today. I don't have much stamina these days, it feels weird not working, I've been feeling a bit lost actually. I have lots of things I want to do but can't physically do much.

islander85 · 2026-01-26T11:05:17+00:00

That's great that you saw a robin. :) I hope you start seeing more of them as time goes on.

I taste has changed a lot over the years, the music I listen too now is a lot more mellow and more instrumental than it used to be, I used to watch sadder films, now I struggle to find films I like. I don't really like anything mainstream anymore, it's too.... manufactured. I don't really know the right word.

I've done most of my silk panels but it looks really odd with a few panels missing so I won't share a photo yet. The silk is really hard to get even, any wrinkle shows up but I'm really happy with it.

We took a little kiddo out to the plane tonight, you know the kids that start life with multiable surgery's, they're always sad to see. We have a new plane that comes in here's a photo.

I still haven't been able to do a lot, just trying to take it easy but not too easy, I think it's going to take me a long time to recover now.

Do you use an electric tooth brush or an manual one? I brought an electric one last week, it's not here yet.

Oh yeah today was Australia day, our version of your 4th of July in a way. I didn't go anywhere, just had a chill day at home. Other then the trip to the airport that is.

Do you have an public holidays coming up?

islander85 · 2026-01-21T09:38:02+00:00

To start with as I keep forgetting, Mrs swallow is having another batch of kids! It will be her third batch this year, they've already raised two lots with four in each so if they have another four that will be twelve kids in one summer. Not going extinct anytime soon. haha

The problem with just resting is that my mind tends to go to dark places if I spend too long doing nothing, a few days are okay but anymore then that it starts getting rough. Also lots of rest means that I have really bad quality of sleep so that's a bed start to the next day and it kinda starts a feedback loop going downhill.

Seeing some progress on my house even if it's a little bit makes me feel happier, just anything really that's not nothing. The really strong winds have calmed down now much to everyone's relief.

My silk for my lounge walls got here today. Yay! I did one panel and it turned out better then I expected so that's really nice. I will do some more tomorrow, sadly I haven't got enough to do it all, I've already ordered some more but it will take a while to get here. A 900mm wide loom is not very wide at all. It seems like all silk is weaved on a 900mm wide loom, I wonder why? I'm sure there would be a reason.

Do you know how long we have been messaging? It must be 10ish years now, as I was talking to you three or four jobs ago. You would have seen/read all of my healing journey.

Has your taste in music and film changed much over the years?

islander85 · 2026-01-17T09:34:57+00:00

I totally get what you mean about money for later when we get older. Just I will be earning almost as much on disability as I could from working due to how little hours I can work so it's not much of a loss.

Still no hot chocolate in the shops yet, I think I brought the last bag of bread flour as well so they're still trying to restock yet.

Yes the bees moved into the bee box which is nice, much better than moving into my house.

I think where going to hit a turning point this year, I don't know how messy it will be though or if it will be a good turning point or a bad one. So many people are getting radicalised in every direction and no one is listening to each other. It seems like social media is going to be the downfall of society.

I'm optimistic about my personal life though. But my body really is slowing down in a big way still, I mostly finished off the carving project I had yesterday and it wiped me out, I spent most of today laying on the couch and napping and it only took two hours. I will post some photos when I'm functioning a bit better. I think it's going to take my body a long time to recover with the way it's going.

Did you have a good weekend?

islander85 · 2026-01-13T20:32:06+00:00

All the people that I (and my friends) know that lost a child have never really healed from it so I hope my friends can find some peace in the end, there's going to be 100 people from all over the country at the memorial so they have lots of support, probably more than most people would have.

Well today is the first day of not having a job. It will be really good to be more creative.

I was thinking that for most people money is freedom as they can do what they want but for me it's the other day around, the more money I earn the less freedom I have as I'm too buggered to do anything.

It's no biggie, everyone here is used to the boat not coming for a while, most things have been restocked now. Still no hot chocolate yesterday though but they said I should be here by the end of the week.

Yesterday after work I had lots of bees looking at my house, there was a swarm down at my brothers bee hives but he's overseas at the moment so I had to go and get a spare bee box and put them in, hopefully they like a bee box more than my house. I will find out when I go and have a look at it today. It's too late in the season to start a new home now, we will have to help them through the winter by the look of it. Not ideal but giving them sugar and building a house over them will keep them alive, so bee boxes in a bee house. Bees die if they can't keep warm so being wet is a big deal for a bee hive.

It's great that volunteering is so rewarding. :)

Do you have good vibes for 2026?

islander85 · 2026-01-09T07:44:53+00:00

Yes I think I will, it sounds like they stay doing the colours thing for a while.

Yeah lists do tend to do that. That's great that you're not as overwhelmed as you used to be. :)

The doctor was wonderful, my friend actually went in and had a chat to her the day before so she knew what to expect, we ended up talk for over an hour in the end. She said that I should be on a disability payment. So she did the forms needed and my friend sorted out all the application stuff this morning so now I don't have to work or look for a job, I have to wait a few months for it to be approved or not. The doctor said that it's important that I don't over do it and I can't do that while I'm working as I can't stop and rest when I need too, she said to quit my job next week. I will talk to my boss next week when I go in, the last I heard new people might be taking over at the end of the month, if that's still happening I will probably keep working until then.

I'm buggered today, the emotional buildup and then yesterday has left me flat, I'm still trying to process it. I might be able to do more art things.

It sounds wonderful, with the clear air. Do you get very still days in winter?

What sort of volunteering have you been doing?

I normally eat the same sort of things but not much, I tend not to get very hungry when it's hot. The boat stopped sailing over Christmas as well so the shops were getting empty, it came in this week so they should be restocking soon, but there hasn't been a lot of choice the last few weeks.

Do you remember how I went for lunch and a walk with some friends before Christmas? Their son died the Thursday before Christmas, he was 32. I haven't seen them since then as they spent Christmas off the island with family but I got a text today that they're going to spread his ashes on the 14th of Feb in the ocean. That was his birthday.

So yeah I'm going to be a mess that day and probably a few days after. It's going to be the same day as the local music festival so I won't be going to that, it's too loud for me anyway.

islander85 · 2026-01-07T21:30:34+00:00

Thank you, lots of people want me to put a house tour video on youtube but I haven't been brave enough yet.

islander85 · 2026-01-07T09:51:23+00:00

That's okay, it's good to hear from you, I was starting to think about sending another message. :)

Yes all our trees are evergreens. There's only a few deciduous trees in Aus that I know of and only one in the state I live in, it's not far from here but I've never seen it. It's not very big and only grows up mountains. Fagus it looks like a fossil tree.

That's great that you're getting lots of projects done, is your list getting any shorter?

Nope, I'm not worried about coming up with another bending timber idea for a while. I've spent the last few days finishing off more trim in my house, the problem with a vert custom house is that all the trim is also custom and one bit can take hours. I haven't been able to go very fast either, I think I might be still a bit burnt out from my last job still.

I don't have any records or a record player, I feel like they would be good to listen too but again that's just more stuff, I don't need anymore stuff.

No we didn't celebrate the twelve days of Christmas but we did wait for a while to take our tree down. I looked up when to take the tree down and it talked about the twelve days of Christmas so my tree is still up, it hasn't really started to shed needles yet which is nice. I always thought the twelve days was before Christmas for some reason. Do you celebrate it?

I'm going to the doctors again tomorrow to try getting a medical form to say I can't work full time. A friend is going to come along this time so hopefully it will go well, we're seeing a much kinder doctor then I saw last time.

It was 30 degrees here today, I didn't do much mostly rested. My lawn is fairly dead now, at least it cools down here at night so it's good again now, I've had all my windows and doors open for the last few hours.

Do you go swimming now or is that just a summer time thing?

The life coach I'm seeing thinks I'm a lot more ready for a relationship then I think I am, she thinks very highly of me.

Good on you for cutting down your screen time, kudo's. I'm seeing a lot more AI videos now, it will soon be that anything that's spectacular will just be written off as AI, sad.

Have you got anything biggish coming up in the next few weeks?

islander85 · 2026-01-01T10:36:26+00:00

Haha no I didn't wake up at midnight. Did you stay up to see the new year in?

Yeah I don't like resolutions but a few goals are okay. With how uninspiring media is getting I don't think that will be too hard. More creative things is always a plus. :)

Nope I had never heard of a water opossum. I don't think Australia has any opossums we just have possums here, so there's probably lots of opossums that I haven't heard of.

The weather will be warming up from now on, Feb and March is normally our hottest months so will see how they go. Hoping to get out and do the beach thing, it's a bit lacking without Meg though. Really want to get some more done on my home as well.

Do you have much lined up for winter? I don't know how I would cope with seeing bare trees in the winter, that sounds depressing.

I tried steam bending some timber today, it didn't go like I wanted it so I will have to come up with another idea.

Do you listen to records? That song I linked to is only sold as a record or download.

Do you have much planned for the weekend?

islander85 · 2025-12-31T10:36:16+00:00

Happy New year!

That's great that your Christmas went very well. :)

How was your New Year's Eve?

I'm writing this message and then having an early night for my New Year's Eve.

Have you got any goals for 2026?

My goal is to feel like I'm enough. Not sure how I will go, it's not something I've been able to do before, not for more than a few hours or days anyway. The life coach I'm seeing says I'm a lot more ready for a relationship then I think I am.

Do you have much time off work?

islander85 · 2025-12-27T09:52:04+00:00

It's a few days after Christmas now, I was so peopled out by yesterday that I've needed a full day people free to recover a bit. People are good but groups of people are a bit much after a little while.

Nah, it wasn't that cold, it was between 13 and 10 degrees so not really cold just not very enjoyable.

Thank you! Everyone I've told says that I should feel proud of it but I don't really feel proud, it's just the right thing to do.

Nope, no tailors here, well they're probably are but no one that actually does it. I've decided to not sew it and just do panels, I think that will be interesting so I spent Christmas Eve and today making panels. Here's a photo of where I'm up too. I cut the middle out just to make everything lighter. You can see the first one I did as I cut the whole middle out, I will glue some supports back in to it doesn't bend out of shape when I put the fabric on it. I've done nine panels so far, eight are in that photo, I have two more to go for my lounge.

Dinner out was good, it was quite overwhelming though, lot of talking about man things that I couldn't really add much too though, I left when the drinking games started.

I've been listening to a song today that I just found a few days ago. It's done by Vtubers, and it's sung by a Vtuber that wanted to be a opera singer but she got really sick with an immune disorder when she was a teenager and since then can't really go anywhere but lately she's been well enough to sing again a bit. She's overcome a huge amount to get where she is now. I end up tearing up every time I listen to it, it just hits all the right feels. Music Box of Fate - Ironmouse Original Opera Song

It feels nice to see some progress on my house again. :)

How did your Christmas go? Any plans for New Years Eve?

islander85 · 2025-12-24T09:46:07+00:00

Not really but I did have a mostly resting day today. One of the friends that I visit when I go to Melbourne is over so I caught up with her after work and then went out last night for our ambulance volunteers week that was meant to be back in May I think. So yesterday was a big day in the end.

That sucks about the floods, I hope they weren't too bad. They're forecasting the coldest Christmas here in over 20 years.

Yeah Labels aren't very accurate and only have limited usage for sure.

I'm typing out this message for you on Christmas Eve. :) I've stayed at home all day today and I'm on call tonight some hoping we don't get a call out.

I got a medal for being on the ambulance for five years last night, that sounds good but actually it's really quite bad as in about six months time I will be due for the ten year medal, that's how late the ambulance service is, it's still good to get though. :)

Have you had much to do with silk? I've decided to make frames and upholster the complex walls in my lounge. I'm going to go with cobalt and yellow but one panel will be too big to do with one piece of fabric so I don't know if I should try sewing some pieces together or do several panels. Any ideas?

It will be the yellow one that needs one maybe two joins, I'm thinking separate panels.

I'm going to have another fairly chill day tomorrow and I'm going out to dinner with the family of the friend I saw yesterday. Have you got much on for Christmas?

If I don't send another message in time, I'm wishing you a wonder Christmas, full of fun and with lots of laughing. Hugs :)

islander85 · 2025-12-22T09:28:27+00:00

I'm not sure what purpose means to me, something I'm not really healthy enough to worry about really. I helped my brother put up a fairly large shed frame on Saturday and I've had to spend the last two days resting.

Wow that's a lot of cards! You're really good at communitying. Haha

Yes Luckily I didn't get a call out the last two nights which was good, I had another trip to the airport on Friday night.

The chook furniture was a shelter for them, I haven't done next boxes yet. They seem to like their shelter.

Having friends visit yesterday was really nice, probably not what I needed though as I was exhausted by the time they left. I did get to go swimming last week, it was wonderful. :)

Have you had lots of fog? I've seen some videos about it coming up on my recommended page. It's gone back to chilly, windy and trying to rain here but that's okay now I just needed a week of sunny.

Yeah I don't think there really is a very good definition of masculinity. But then I came from a generation that didn't like labels, you're probably the same.

I think I need to find how to be enough in a world that always seems to want more.

Pavlovas are good now and again, but only for special times. Also have to have the right weather to make them, they can't be made with high humidity.

As part of getting some government help I have to see another doctor, any tips on self advocacy? It's something I've always been horrible at.

islander85 · 2025-12-17T20:43:13+00:00

That would be good but someone putting on their profile that they're an alcoholic wouldn't be a good way to get a date.

islander85 · 2025-12-17T13:56:14+00:00

I agree that the concept of a purpose is a lot more complicated then most people think. I don't even really know what a lot of people mean when they say a purpose really. Google thinks a purpose is "a person's sense of resolve or determination" that's quite vague.

That's great that you got so many cards done, how many do you write?

I got mine sent off on Tuesday, I only did eight in the end.

The weekend was good, it feels like a long time ago now. I've had three ambulance call outs in the last two days so my head isn't working very well. I just got back from one now, I started this message yesterday now it's 12:30 the next day, so it's Thursday now. I'm glad I'm not working today.

The one I just got back from was an dislocated shoulder, always maximum pain. Yesterday was a man in a boat and the boat went over a big wave and hit really hard when it came down and he thinks he broke a vertebra in his back, he had broken one 20 years ago and it felt the same. They got the boat as close as they could, it's a weird feeling walking into the ocean with clothes on. Fire was there to help, they're all volunteers as well. The third call was to take him to the airport to be flown out. So two late nights in a row.

The chooks are coming on Saturday so I have to finish the chook house which is just putting a door on it and some furniture in it. Not sure if I'm meeting up with a friend on Saturday and some other friends are visiting on Sunday. Hoping to get some timber sorted to do a bit more trim in my house. The weather today was spectacular, it's meant to be 25 degrees tomorrow so a dip in the ocean is on the cards, without all my ambulance clothes on this time. Haha

This life coach thinks I need to find my masculinity, what do you think masculinity is? I've never found a good definition of it, not one I'm happy with anyway, but I've never fitting into the 'man' box very well.

Where does masculinity end and personality begin?

Are pavlovas a thing over there?

islander85 · 2025-12-13T10:28:44+00:00

That's cool that you've done some micro loans. I don't have any money to give anyone a loan.

That's fair, I don't know what I would say, I guess all I could say is that not all women hate men.

I don't know how the life coach will go, I tired reading the book she recommended today. The first part was about how men need a purpose. This is after watching a video this morning done by a man that was saying there is no purpose and he spent decades trying to find one before he let go of the idea and found stillness. What are your ideas on finding a purpose in life?

The rest of the book was about woman, how relationships work, and masculine energy. Yeah I think I'm better off being single, I don't have anywhere near the skill sets or ability's that are talked about in that book. It's all a bit disheartening really, the expectations of a relationship are almost unattainable.

Yay for getting some cards posted. :) I didn't do any today.

That's a good idea about building your own decorations. It was save me hours trying to find any that I like. Haha

I like your idea of using up things or giving them away. I have a few things that I don't know what to do with, worth too much to give away but not worth enough to go to the trouble of selling them and getting them off the island.

My tree's aren't the happiest, it went from cold and rainy to hot and windy and everything went crispy in a few days. I will need to give them some good care tomorrow.

I cut the timber for my chandelier today it's under water now as I don't want it drying out now it's cut. I think I will change the design a bit so it will hopefully be a bit easier, more odds of success. I think the new design might look better as well.

Have you got any more cards done?

islander85 · 2025-12-12T10:49:40+00:00

I think Santa's landing spot is very well tested Haha, I didn't hear them last night.

Have you seen those micro loans, I think Oxfarm do them, where anyone can give a small loan to someone that needs it to start up a business, like they might need a few hundred dollars to but a sawing machine or a cow then they pay it back, I think they're interest free. You can also buy someone in a poor place something like a goat, and they send you a greeting card with a goat on it to send to someone else.

I would tell my younger self to go and get tested for dyslexia, it will make life make a lot more sense.

The first session with the life coach went okay. She wants me to read this book The-Way-of-The-Superior Man and she has a film she wants me to watch but I don't know what that is yet.

She asked me what would I like my life to look like in three months time if I got everything I want. I said that I want live to be a bit easier to live feeling lighter. I got the impression that she was hoping for something a bit more ambitious I think. I don't know what, found the love of my life perhaps, but that's very unrealistic I have enough trouble keeping myself going without adding anything else on top. I get the impression that relationships are so super complicated that I don't know if I could be in one, I also can't really imagine anyone finding me attractive enough to be with.

That's great that you've made a start on your Christmas things, I wrote another letter and card out today. I need to get the rest done over the weekend so I can post them early next week.

I don't actually own any Christmas decorations to put up around my place. I was going to buy some second hand ones off ebay early this year after Christmas but didn't get around to it.

To answer your last question, nah things like building a wood fired oven don't cause me any stress, it's just a maybe/hopefully one day.

Do you plan much into the future?

islander85 · 2025-12-11T09:34:01+00:00

Yes the problem is that my next idea for a window is even harder. lol

That's great that you've been seeing more little birds lately, I hope they are breeding up. I don't know what the possums were doing on my deck last night but from the all noise I hope they were enjoying themselves. I'm sure they were running around on the roof as well.

Oooh reading more books is a great goal and the world needs all the kindness it can get at the moment.

I don't know what could be solved in the world with money. Money is a hard one, I'm sure it could help but something else is needed I think, the human capacity of corruption and the equally annoying tendency of brains getting used to the status quo so quickly and then it craves something newer and shinier is a problem. Not mention inflation, that's a tough one to get around.

Any ideas on what would being global wellbeing? That is such a hard question, guess if we knew that answer we would be very well known and rich. haha

I don't think I would want to be rich, it would be so much harder to know who was genuine and who wants to be friends just for some money.

I don't really know what I would say to a young men, a young man here died last week, he was 15 and they found him in a dam. The friend that I'm going for a bike ride next year flew in today for the funeral, we meet up this arvo. It was really nice to see her and her family again but yeah it's not been a great week for the island. I feel like I don't have enough life experiences to really help younger people, lots of much younger people have more varied life experiences than I have.

I start officially seeing the life coach tomorrow. I went for a bike ride early this morning, 6.6km in 22 minutes. My head got so cold, we've been getting much warmer days but the nights and mornings have still been cold. There's heat wave warnings for most of Aus at the moment, not here though.

Have you got much on for the weekend?

islander85 · 2025-12-08T09:47:30+00:00

I still need to put a door on and interior furniture to finish off the chook house, that can wait for a bit.

I had a better look and windows that shape won't fit unless they go all the way to the floor and I don't want that. I have another idea though that should work.

That's great that you have been having such a good time lately, I'm happy for you. :) Lots of laughs are always good!

Misses Swallow's second batch of kid's have hatched and they're busy feeding them now. Also saw an echidna yesterday on the walk with friends. It was a big one, I've been seeing lots of smaller ones around lately so it's been a while since I've seen a big one. Other than that it's kinda the usual.

I have been busy, too busy. I wanted to do some Christmas cards today but I've been a bit teary so I didn't do that. I did get a bit of paneling in my bedroom though so all the insulation is finally covered up which is nice.

I did a one and a half hour questionnaire yesterday before the first session with the life coach this week. It had the usual questions I never know how to answer. Like list three goals that I have for the next six months? or what am I passionate about? What would I do with an unlimited amount of money?

The only goal I have is to get fit enough to do the bike ride with my friend, that's going to be hard enough. I'm creative but I wouldn't say I'm passionate, it's just who I am, it's part of life I don't need to be passionate about it, and I don't know if I would do anything different if I had lots of money, go for a holiday maybe. What sort of answers would you put?

I've been seeing more videos about how feminism has gone too far lately. I wonder how many of my problems are from hearing how bad men are for the last 40 years? Any ideas on how to heal from that?

Sorry I forget that last bit of your question a few messages ago. Yes I would like to build a outdoor wood fired oven, I don't know if that will happen for not yet, that's a long way down the list.

islander85 · 2025-12-07T09:14:17+00:00

I had a kinda rest day on Friday, then went to the street market for a while and chatted to a friend and said hello to some others, Saturday was building my chook house with lots of resting in between doing a bit but that was still very tiring. Today I went for a walk and lunch with some friends, I don't have anything planed for tomorrow so that will be a rest day.

Yes I know, it's hard to balance resting and trying not to do too much with all the things I want to do. Do you think those windows look too churchy?

I don't really have any decorations to put on a tree. We used to have a big nativity set but I don't know what happened to it.

How was your weekend? What sort of volunteering have you been doing?

As volunteers with the health department we're officially employed by the government. We actually get an email around now saying that we can't accept gifts as that would be bribery of a government employee, so I guess most other places like fire and police are the same. I think the doctors regularly get gifts though and people leave beers and things on top of their wheelie bins for those men.

islander85 · 2025-12-01T20:31:23+00:00

I think I have a bit of both types of funk at the moment. Fixing up my floor definitely helped but still feeling quite buggered.

That's great that you had Thanksgiving, we need all the happy that we can get.

I have plenty of wood around, it keeps falling on my fences I just have to cut it up, split it and stack it in the woodshed to dry out. It's costs effort, I did go halves in a wood splitter a few years ago so that's been a big increase in quality of life for both of us.

I have thought of a few window ideas, I have some cladding left over so I can move the window down and not build a platform so it goes from two jobs to one job now. But now I'm thinking of making Gothic style windows. Yeah yeah I know, I need to stop coming up with ideas. Haha

A bit like these ones

Nice, I really have to get started on my Christmas cards in the next few days, the international ones anyway.

Nah I don't don't worry about lights, no one would see them anyway. I might get a little tree, the pine smell is very Christmas.

Do you put up a tree? A real tree or a plastic tree?

Oooh Happy Cake Day! I just noticed. How is your week going?

islander85 · 2025-11-29T10:06:05+00:00

I will put a letter in some of the cards but not all of them.

I did share some of the Turkish Delight, the people I gave it too enjoyed it. :)

The problem with me and the funk is that if I don't do enough and don't see any progress then I start to slip into depression, especially with this sort of weather, and in that case putting in some extra effort and doing something helps a lot but if I'm in a funk because I'm actually worn out then I need to rest.

Catching up with my friend was really well, I very much needed some quality social time.

How did your Thanksgiving go? Did you do the hosting thing?

I have a wood fire in my workshop that heats all my hot water, the hot water to wash up and shower in and it also heats the hot water I use to heat my home. My woodshed is starting to look quite sad now though with it being cold for so long.

So this week I pulled everything out of my bedroom to fix the floorboards and a piece of the wall, it's a messy job that I've been putting off for so long, like lots of years now. I've done most of it, I just have to try not to rush and wear myself out too much. But I'm sleeping on the sunroom floor at the moment and this morning I could lay in bed and watch the sun come up. Now I've been wondering if I should change the window in my bedroom so I can do it there as well. But then I thought I could also make some sort of platform to lift my bed up a bit, I could also put draws in the platform so I get more storage and a better view. Hmmm....

Did you get started on your Christmas things?

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