More Snow, Dissuading A Bird, Suddenly Sick - Thursday

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Yesterday started like most this winter so far, waking up to MORE snow having fallen overnight. It was only an inch but that is atop the foot that had recently fallen. The temps are trending warmer but we are still getting white crap falling from the sky.

All this SNOW SNOW SNOW!!!!

Mid morning after a brief clearing of the sky another round came through but did not drop nearly as much as overnight. I am so looking forward to the rains coming and washing this all away.

The door to the attic of the studio has a hole in the corner that had been covered by a piece of sheet metal, but when I redid the roof I had opened the door and bent the metal piece back, not flattening it when I was done. Since then a bird had found the hole and had been expanding it, quite noisily. In order to dissuade it from any more damage I hauled the ladder down and then stapled a stack of metal window screen over the hole then flattened the metal piece out and spun it back into place.

The early afternoon I picked the boys up from school then once home kept working on determining greenhouse supplies. I have my one order almost ready for the bender and joints/couplers which can ship and not be delivered on a truck.

It was about 4pm and I had gotten started on dinner when it hit me. I got a rapidly rising round of core body chills that had me wrapped in the blanket trying to keep from shaking to pieces. As the evening wore on it rose in intensity and I felt worse and worse. @stryeyz took the boys to wrestling for me while I tried to keep the rising pain at bay. I ended up on the bed in as upright a position as I could and on my left side.

((An aside. Did you know that if you lean to your left side you are more likely to make yourself burp or fart as the gas is easier to escape due to the internal shapes of your organs. I learned that from my high school science teacher who publicly transitioned some years ago.))

Anyway that bit of knowledge helped me last night as I was able to get rid of the gas without constantly vomiting, which occurred later. I am rather happy I was aware enough as I w2was able to be in the bathroom for the double barreled expulsion from my body.

It was quite painful the times between expulsions and I was not a happy camper until it finally began to subside near midnight.

During our trip I had heard mention of the norovirus, towards the end of the trip, which is very likely what I got. No clue from where or whom but nonetheless it is here and hopefully nearly gone.

Today I am on the recovery path and am going to be extra gentle on my system. I booted everything I ate and drank yesterday so I have to reintroduce some probiotics and better flora for my gut, especially after my long course of antibiotics. The boys have their first wrestling tournament tomorrow morning up north a half hour and I will have grain to pickup in town before hand.

My body still is quite sore this morning.