Life's hardware from the carpark

My daughter is sleeping in the back of the car in the parking lot of a hardware warehouse. So, I have a little time to post.

I am here to look at getting a new cordless drill as it is one of those things that needs to be in the toolbox. I want a decent one as I figure I am going to be using it a fair bit and want it to last - probably a Dewalt I think.

While my kit has been pretty lacking for a very long time, now that we are in a house I am going to have to "man up" and flesh out a decent box.we have a lot of renovation work to do over the next year or five, but the house is going to require ongoing maintenance forever.

We also have a garden with apple, pear and cherry trees, as well as rhubarb, a few different berries and thanks to our neighbours, also strawberries they put into some planters yesterday. As I said to them when we were cutting some things out,

if I can eat it, keep it.

I like the idea of being able to eat food from the garden and once we are a bit more settled and the weather a little warmer, @smallsteps and I will plant some carrots - as she can't eat much of the other plants.

Eventually, we will put a small greenhouse in and perhaps we will do this when we can finally change the windows. That way, we can use the old 60s windows as the walls and roof, which would be pretty cool.

We made this move as a lifestyle change in various ways and growing a garden and becoming a lot more handy is definitely part of the shift.

My father was a very hard worker and skilled at many things, but handy around the house wasn't one of those. My grandfather on my mother's side however, was very skilled with his hands and was about as good at woodwork as a person could be.

He passed away when I was 12, but I remember spending time in his shed and listening to him talk about various things with small curls of wood carvings covering his arms. At that age, I never really got to know him well, but I always had the sense he was a good person.

The feeling of people is something I have relied on heavily in my life to make quick judgements and I think generally, it has been a pretty good tool. I think it is because I have spent a lot of time with so many different kinds of people in both positive and highly negative environments. Growing up in a hostile society has its benefits and it allows the observation of the worst of people. Identifying similar types later is quite easy.

I think that this is part of the problem with the Internet filter, as it takes away a lot of the physical indicators and warning signs, plus gives time for people to formulate their response - it is less raw, more engineered.

I have never been overly trusting in people's words, unless their body language leaks the same intention as what they say. Easy to pick in real life, much harder when there are just the words to go by. This also means that the intention behind the words is lost, and people have started to become punishing of what is written without the grace given if in person. This is largely because online, people are not people, they are just something on the other side of the screen.

I think that is for another post though, as my daughter is waking up.

Taraz