Ah, yes.

.
.
I've been awake for about an hour, maybe two.  It's been a slow go at it.  Just that bit of work removing sod sort of beat me up.  In part because the cold has been making me move less and work less.  Without using muscles, those muscles shrink, maybe atrophy to some degree.  So I was a bit stiff and sore through the night on into waking.

Even so, I am hoping to get things together and get back out today.  The sun has been out, off and on.  Two hours?  I think maybe three hours now.  Yeah.  Well.  As I was writing this, I ended up doing this and that, then the machine crashed, I had to go to the bathroom.  Focus?  Both of us?  Never mind.  I mean, humorously for my part, something or other.

How does one know one should participate in a particular field?  For me, for example, woodworking?  Ah.  By who else seems to be involved in the field.  Now, of course, there are always exceptions.  Even so, you can sort of tell.  Find out what is, generally, right with those folks... and what is wrong with them... in the both good and bad sort of ways, then take a personal inventory.  Do you fit?  I do, to a degree.  There is room for someone like me, if I am more of the milquetoast variety.  Examples?



Perhaps these guys are entertainers, as well as woodcrafters.  Though I think not, or not in the way that seems of the face of it.  It just happens that they are as they are, and do what they do, if there is some crossover between those things... not so much with the face value of the initial insinuation?  Probably.  Anyway, from what I gather from these, and others from them and even other crafters, I... suspect I could fit.  Oh, and... I don't have all the tools for the last video and project in it.  However, I am already considering how to use the tools I have.  Crafting isn't about having the tools, it's about having enough tools, time, and imagination to get the job done.  I wouldn't want to do these things with hand tools, but I think I could, assuming I had tools that would work and enough patience and time.  Actually, often when I buy power tools, I am still adding non-electrical tools to my list and buying them at the same time.  If you gain experience with power tools, but lose them for various reasons, hand tools will do.

Shoveling, stooping, kneeling, lifting, tossing, scraping, in the garden, has cost me.  And, yet, I am pretty sure I will get out and finish it today.  Most of it is done, should be a much easier day, with no more than a quarter of the total work remaining... at least on the dig... then there is the planting to do.  Quite a chore, but I'll... keep at it.  I am hoping to get it all done today.  I just... I keep learning that heavier physical labor, and that is to a degree what this is, just takes longer than I think.  And, as the body wears and dulls, that time ends up stretching more than even... it... just might not get done today.  It's a goal, not a promise... for what good promises are, in absolutes.

Later.