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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Ice Cream is always my summer weakness too. If I have a heart attack, you can definitely blame all the extra ice cream cones over the summer.
Glad you have all the construction activity to melt that weight back off. If it wasn't for thr dance clubs and festivals this summer, I would barely have any steps at all.
Do you ever track your dances?
No different than steps on my FitBit. It is the only way for me to sync up with the @actifit fitness app where I typically do my daily journal posts through their interface. There is a setting on the watch that I mostly remember to flip to dancing when I begin my activity. Not sure how great I am at switching it off, and the fitbit isn't smart enough to just shut it off when I'm done dancing. Whatever.
All those days over the weekend at the festival I was easily over 20K/day and just hung out floating the river to get out of the heat. It was so crisp, I'm sure like Finnish waters.
The funniest thing to me is that actifit tracks by day, so when I go to the club/fest past midnight, those steps count toward the next day. There will be days when I will go to sleep already having 15K+ steps on the night from festivites! The struggle is finding time to get more in while the sun is still up.
I do my best fruit shopping at the store 4am walking back from the club. Those are my favorite steps of the week! I got fresh lychee nuts in my random bodega in Brooklyn for less than $6/kilo. YUM!!
That's great! My father, unfortunately, is just the opposite. No resistance to physical stress anymore, though he constantly works on that.
And no, it's not a benefit. Not being able to feel the signals your body sends you is quite dangerous. But at least you might throw up before something happens... And since you're doing it for a while now, maybe you're body will just get used to it, and become stronger. Hopefully.
I have zero motivation to do anything at all, which is my biggest hurdle. Once going, I just keep going until done.
Yeah, it is a strange feeling to know that I could keep going until sick. But I still "feel" the sickness, so I know to stop.
I don't know about stress being good, all the studies say that stress is bad. One of the things I like about my job is that is a very low stress job most of the time. Though I do know that having no stress ever is also not good, because stress is what makes you appreciate not having stress and it also sometimes helps me push through the barriers I wouldn't be able to overcome otherwise.
In terms of doing stuff yourself, there is a lot of how to videos on YouTube that show you how to do something. I use them mostly to fix stuff on my old Mercedes, but also watched them for all kind of other things like setting a clock on our new microwave that turned out to be super counter intuitive :)
I think you have to see stress in a different way. The same easy task for one is stressful for another. The stressed person can see it as a problem, or a challenge to overcome. Challenge is healthy. It is the same task, abd the same stress though. I think the way we loon at it affects out brain, and the cortisol levels.
It is probably totally intuitive, for younger people ;P
True, I am just probably an old IT fart :)
I don't have a strong relationship with stress. I don't get stressed, and I take the necessary precautions to avoid it. Sometimes people would tell me that their stomach aches when they get stressed, and I was very surprised. But one time, I got stressed and my stomach ached. I had a problem I couldn't handle, that's why.
The stomach is the "second brain" of the body and affects all parts of our thinking too. It is highly sensitive.
I do imagine how you manage to do all the physical tasks you do, considering your health status. It actually makes me feel like you are just different as a lot of people will just capitalise on that and do little or nothing at all. I must say that I like how you’re turning leftover materials into something useful. It’s both practical and creative. Even though the picture isn’t flashy, the story behind it makes it interesting. And I really felt that part about pushing through stress and just getting things done. But I will recommend you don't go to physical all the time.
Nope. As plain and average as most. The difference is that I push through my feelings.
It was too late for me to go to the gym after! :D
Stress is good for that type of activity (garage construction) because it generates focus, creativity for you, and it is scientifically proven that whoever dominates the mind, accompanied by thoughts with actions will take you where you intend for good and for bad.
I have heard that stress only kills those who think that stress is bad. I have never thought it a negative, even though I still feel stressed at times. I see it as not being good enough, skilled enough, ready enough to deal with what I am facing.
The stress is not going away. It's always going to be there. It is essential to learn to walk with that emotion next to us, so as not to stay paralyzed and move forward, just as it happens to you and also to me.
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Building with leftover wood and quiet determination, your journey from muddling through to mastery is anything but boring!
I had a chuckle about wheelie bins freezing stuck and it is a problem I have never encountered or even thought about. I guess you have to always be one step ahead preparing for winters wonderland.
This is awesome! Not the stress--but the project!
⚙️ That machine looks like a monster, it's a good thing you have a large space to work in, so you have space to move around it and stay out of harms way.
💡 Also your post gave me such a great idea for my next post - I have a similar design to your "bin garage", but its a cover for water cistern and filtration system. And I do so much work in Sketchup that I'm baffled how I didn't think about sharing my designs and plans here.
🐌 One thing to consider, is making sure the wood doesn't touch the ground - to avoid rot.
🌧 Also, I don't know your weather situation, but where I live, I'd consider extending the roof sides just a little bit, to prevent sideways rains from falling in.
Looking forward to seeing updates on the build!
Did you draw up the design yourself for the bin garage, or is it a common design? There's not a whole lot creativity you can do with such a function / form problem, but I've seen similar designs around the place!
Funny enough, its bin day here today. The truck is due in the afternoon.
Sometimes I wonder if I’ll be able to do the same someday—like actually fix or build something useful. I can’t even imagine working with wood right now.
You did a great job. Weldon. After all family comes first.
The experiences we had as kids influence what we can do and what we want now. It seems like you're taking some of that old frustration and turning it into something productive :)
Losing weight by working on your land is better than in a gym. In my opinion, it is more enjoyable and also beneficial financially.
I didn't find that image particularly boring but I tend to view both snapshots and photography very differently from the stuff that I do and closer to the stuff that I do.
I think your wife would disagree.
Don't go to the point of throwing up that's generally bad.
I am myself doing some primitive job of concrete and masonry placement the way a caveman would do it. It strengthens some stuff and increases the surface where i can put yet another pot.But I am far away from that stage where actual life can take advantage of it.