What a boring image today!
But it was one of the few I took, as my day was filled with getting materials ready and starting to build the "bin garage" for our wheelie bins. This should stop them from freezing shut in the winter so that my wife and daughter are able to take the bins out, since I seem to be the only one with enough strength to Fonz it open, by hitting it like a jukebox.
It will look something like this.
I am using left over wood from the terrace, though I don't have as much as I had planned, because we changed the terrace design on the fly. This means I had to get some more framing wood, but I have plenty of finishing wood for the outside. It should look pretty good, because the style and materials will match the terrace and both will be seen from the road and on entry. It also means that the bins won't be seen when we are sitting on the terrace.
Practical and good looking.
I am neither of those things.
But I am getting handier around the house and sometimes I think back to the home I grew up in and how much work it needed to maintain and improve it - but very little of it was done. As a kid, I often wished I could have done the work, if my parents had bought me the tools and materials. But of course, who is going to let a kid do that.
And I don't know if I could have done it either.
Still, I am learning to do more and more work by myself, even though I muddle my way through it, finding my own ways to do what is likely not the right way to do it, but it works well enough. It is a problem solving ability, which I used to have a lot of previously, but now I don't have the same mental imagery skill available to turn physical concepts over in my mind. What would have been simple spatial mental manipulation to work out an issue, seems like a mountain.
Thinking hard makes me sweat more.
I guess that is a good thing, as long as I keep my fluids up. I have lost a few kilos in the last couple weeks from all the work, even though I haven't got to the gym often enough, and have eaten too much ice cream. Since the stroke, I seem like I am more capable of pushing through physical stress for longer, whether it be heat or pain, or just lethargy. I can switch my "complaining brain" off and just focus on the task at hand.
To the point I near throwing up.
Is that a benefit?
Don't know about that, but it is a benefit to be able to fit a lot of activity into a single day, without having to get stressed by it. At least in my conscious awareness. My Oura Ring picks up physiological signs of stress, even when I don't feel stressed. In my head though, stress is a good thing, unless we make it a bad thing in our head.
Do you fear stress?
Perhaps I will have a heart attack next.
Maybe while relaxing on the terrace.
Taraz
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