I am going to work on the 1969 mustang with my grandson today. I went out and turned on my propane heater at 7:00 am, and right now at 8:30 it is still pretty cold in my shop. I like working on cars, but I don’t like working on cars if I am cold. The older I get the more that is true. I have a wood stove in my shop but at some point in the past the wind blew my stove pipe over. I must have decided when I installed it that I could screw the stove pipe together later and forgot to do it. I need to get my ladder out and get up on the roof of my shop and reconnect the stove pipe and screw it together, but Patty will get very upset if I go up a ladder and get on the roof, she thinks that I am old and decrepit. I will have to do it without her knowing.

I had a diesel space heater that put out a lot of heat, but I couldn’t get it to start so I sprayed some starter fluid in the burn chamber and caught it on fire. By the time I got the fire put out the heater was toast, and my beard was all singed, oh well, it was kind of a smelly old heater anyway, and my beard needed trimming. I guess I will drive to coastal farm and buy another heater.

Living life is like that. There are problems and barriers and sometimes in the process of trying to fix them another bigger problem is created. The key thing I remind myself of constantly is don’t get uptight, enjoy the ride, never grumble, rejoice always, and keep the fire extinguisher close.