Cool and damp again. Hopefully clear, as that will make all my driving nicer… It was 50F when I went to bed. National forecast is for more of yesterday, so I should be ok.
Didn’t get much done. It’s mostly mental, but I’m still not 100%. I feel better, but tired, and weary.
Plan for today is pick up rental trailer, use it to pick up two pallets of stone, and some geotextile, then pick up my pallet jack, and whatever else I can get on the trailer and head to the BOL.
If everything goes well, and I’m lucky, maybe I’ll get there in enough time to meet the gas guy and maybe we can work out some temporary reprieve so we can at least have hot water while I get the line replaced.
Which is sub-optimal but may be unavoidable.
Family will join me later today if there is hot water and heat….
I’ll be bringing up a few bins of stuff including about half of my OTC meds. I went through and divided up the stuff I stocked up on 2 years ago, and I might end up with it all at the BOL, because I have normal stuff here already, but for now, I’ll just send half. I need to split up the first aid and wound care stuff too. To be an actual BOL, it needs to be stocked as if we weren’t coming back to Houston. Yet, I need enough stuff stacked here to stay if we can’t or won’t leave…. It’s an interesting balancing act. One consideration is that we won’t USE the stuff up there at anywhere near the rate we use it here, and so turnover will be a lot slower. More spoilage, more waste. Oh well, we’ll figure it out as we go. Or we’ll get caught short. But I hope to get it at least 80% right.
One solution would just be stacking all the same stuff in the same quantities, starting from scratch so it’s not already aging out… and I’m trying to take the newer stuff up there, not the oldest, but I can’t afford to simply double everything at this point. As I said, interesting balance…
One thing for sure, keep stacking.
nick