Day 211: Sick day

Day 211:

Okay now this isn’t a day off because if it was a day off I’d be enjoying it.

Instead it appears I wrenched my back and shoulder hauling that anvil across the great wasteland underground yesterday, and now I can’t pick up anything heavier than this pen with my right hand. (Seriously. Not even the ink bottle.)

So it’s all about hot soaks and eating protein and sleeping for now. Wish me luck.

And alcohol. If somehow you could wish me a bottle of whiskey that would be amazing.

Day 210: another day off

Day 210:

Is it really a day off if you use it to forge a giant anvil in a sand cast and then drag that anvil many many meters back to where you usually work on things?

It still feels like a day off compared to working on that lava river, so I’m going with yes.

Plus, the ducken skins are tanning so I can start sewing another bed soon. Or maybe a new undershirt, since this one’s about worn through and singed in a couple of places.

But maybe a ducken skin shirt is too creepy. Can’t decide.

Day 209: A day off

Day 209:

Ran out of fish. Not particularly surprised because, like I said, they’re not very filling. They’re not very big either. I mean, I can eat three or four at a sitting. It’s like if you decided to try to eat sunfish or crappies (does anyone know what sunfish and crappies outside of my grandfather and me anymore) instead of a good-sized bass.

Anyway, as much as I hate to do it, I spent the day hunting ducken for meat.

I tried to leave my own flock alone and only hunt the ones that were outside of my pen, but there’s so many of them that I suspect the ones inside my pen are slowly escaping.

I never did figure out how my horses got out.

Back to the topic: ducken meat. Cooking it now, on a wood fire, which smells a lot better than coal.

Day 208: a new path found

Day 208:

The lava is glassed in and now sounds something like a massive swarm of bees bouncing against the inside of a glass beehive instead of like death incarnate bubbling.

So that’s an improvement.

The waterfall is also contained, although not to the same extreme because having the water loose is nice and cooling for the air, which we kind of need what with the giant glass lava river taking up most of the middle of the room.

Also, I appear to have found another chasm. I am sure you are shocked. This one looks like it heads east, toward the big mountain. I’m going to follow it.

Slowly, though. There’s still gold and emeralds just sticking out of the walls.

Day 207: still glassing up the lava river

Day 207:

Well more than half of the lava river is walled in and I should be able to get around it to reach the gold ore I can see sticking out of the wall behind it.

I should, but there’s a waterfall in the way.

See, I knocked a piece of rock out of the ceiling so that I could put down a piece of glass and lo and behold there was a waterfall behind it.

I couldn’t hear the waterfall over the loud popping sounds the lava makes when it spits (though I have to admit those are getting softer as I wall it in).

So now I have to finish walling in the lava *and then* wall in the waterfall so that I can get the gold.

Wish gold was useful or something here. I feel like an alternating-hot-sweaty-stinky-cold-shivering-wrinkly fool down in that pit.