Up and a bit.

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First, some digging.  I have to use a pickaxe while at it. so many rocks!  from pea sized, up to about my fist, mostly averaging between those sizes.  I can't shovel through new ground.  I have to pick it loose, then scoop out what is available.  I can only do so much before I have to go sit.  Not even doing something else will help, I completely drain what energy I have.

After my first break, I did chores.  Rabbits and ducks, plus fresh water for the cats.  I'll feed them before long, and clear their litter.  But... Not for a while.  After chores, and another break, I did a bit more digging.  I am taking out inches more, wide... deep... at the rate the young take out feet.  Almost not worth it.  For me, it is exercise, as much as I can do.

The sun rose high enough to be on me while I worked.  I was done anyway, but that would have finished it if not.  I suspect the medicines I take make the sun, and heat, very difficult to withstand.  Though, maybe just age?  Though, to be honest, I think the medicines they have put me on have made being in the sun a permanent grave task.  I just can't do it.  Even my arm, in the sun, while driving, is difficult.  Long sleeves help.

Still, a good morning so far.  Just about to close the last of the windows.  It was 60 an hour ago.  I'd bet it's close to 70 out there now.  Well, 66 to 67, just checked while closing the last of the windows.  I am still hoping to get rested a bit, then get the trailer moved out and get that unloaded.  I don't know if I will be able to fill it, or not today.  But... I'll... do what I can, bit by bit.

After a break, I will go on up and study Japanese again.  First finishing the study I didn't quite get done yesterday, then a review of all the letters.  Just... doing two lines, instead of four, of everything I have done.  Then, the next time I study, today or tomorrow, start on the next study lesson.  Every other study day will be split between a pure review and going over new material.

Oh, I purchased flashcard materials.  I may have some around, but haven't been able to find them.  If I do find more, all good.  I am going to guess I will need more flashcards than ordered, on hand, or even combined should I find them all, in time.  One piece of advice, regarding vocabulary anyway, is to write the word within a sentence.  Sure, color code it, so you know what you are studying.  Why?  Because words, and sentence structure, is different enough, as are... even what nouns are needed, no always is the subject necessary if it is plain, for example.  So, writing it in a sentence helps set some of those things in mind.

It would be like a foreigner knowing "I", "can", "go", "to the store", but formulating in their tongue, and having come out as "go I to the store can".  Sort of correct, just... so if studying "store", best have it written as "I can go to the store".  I immediately understood the good of that.  Even if I can't, immediately, understand the rest of the sentence, or grammar.  How much does a child understand, how much do they simply attempt to repeat?  Of course, that means having a dictionary, which does such.  So... yes, I have ordered two, the one in the books post, and this one.  If this one is too advanced, the other may be a stepping stone to the use of this one?  Yea, but you gotta start somewhere.

I may not be able to do much, or work long, before choking.  But I have enough work around that I may be able to do an half hour of effort a day.  And for quite some time.  More, through time, I can probably make much more work than I can do in a lifetime.  It isn't much, but it is what I can do.  Even learning Japanese is... something.  Latin as well.  Yes, what I ordered for that, as well as what I had, is in and available.  I won't start that until, perhaps, fall or winter... when I have little else I can practically do.

Well, I best get the cat litter cleared, get them fed, then go on up and begin study.  Trying to keep eating to one or two meals a day.  Hmm... chicken soup, perhaps.  It has been sitting, and stewing, in the fridge for a day.  Some out, in a pot, with a can of tomato?  A few more fresh veggies?  A little extra water too.  Sure.  Lunch.  It really isn't as tasty as I had hoped, but it's good enough.  Later.