According to the practice of last year, I should have a good rest for a few days during the New Year, but I thought that the progress of various things did not meet expectations, and I wanted to make up for some of the arrears that had been delayed by a foot injury for a month, so I didn't take a break, and I started work on the first day of the new year.

I can only think about the bitter and then the sweet, and then I will be tired for a few more months and everything will get better when the Chinese New Year is this year, and then I must rest for a few more days and make up for this year!

The first thing that came to mind was to go into the woods and collect the bark of many fallen trees, cut them out and tie them into bundles and soak them in a puddle not far away.

The last few days have only been a transition with two books I got on the boat, and the leaves are really not something I want to touch.

This time I thought that anyway, I had to use the necessities of life every day, and it was more troublesome to do it every three or two months, and its production cycle was also long, and if I didn't pay attention, it would be interrupted for more than half a month, and it would be extended when the farm was busy!

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Taking advantage of the fact that there is more rain and abundant water in these days, the bricks and tiles that have been interrupted for a long time will be made again, and the bricks and tiles will be dried for a longer time in this season, and then they will stop working to plant various crops this year.

At this time, I fully realized the inconvenience of life without a toilet and kitchen, and it can even be said that I was very tormented, so even if I was not in a hurry to build a second room, I was very eager to build a kitchen and toilet.

If you can rush the number of a kiln before planting crops is the best result, and when the crops are planted, the kiln can almost be fired directly, and the time connection will not be too much!

I've been working hard for months in a row, and I'm thinking about building the kitchen and toilet as soon as possible, and making sure that I have a certain amount of food, so that I can live a more leisurely life.

The two biggest advantages of making bricks and tiles in spring are that the adjusted mud can not dry and harden for a few days, and the pleasant climate also indirectly affects the mood, and the speed of the mood is also slightly improved!

This time, 2,000 bricks and tiles were made each, enough to burn a kiln to build a toilet, and all the deficiencies in the floor of the house could be filled.

I wanted to do it again, but there was no room on the ground anymore, and since it had rained for two weeks, it was not too early, so I had to put it into the ground to get the chores done.

Things seem extremely complicated, always hovering between things, but life is like this, trivial!

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Now that the bark and other materials soaked in the puddle have been soaked, the first thing to do is to make paper, but this time the difference is that with the increase in the number of metal tools, the process of making materials has become extremely simple.

Last time, I could only use a wooden stick to break the bark little by little, but now I can directly chop it with a kitchen knife and then beat it with a wooden stick, and it only takes about ten minutes to beat a pile of scraps.

This time, the material was more than doubled, but the time to complete it was even less.

The importance of tools is evident at this moment, so I've been trying to improve the tools in a way that seems so right!

The paper that came out this time can be seen to be softer at a glance, because the pulp is finer, but I haven't thought of a way to make it white, which is a big regret at this stage.

Finally, the weight of the dried straw paper is close to ten catties, and the stacks are almost thirty or forty centimeters high, which seems to save enough to produce straw paper within a year!

The next day, I haven't been around the island for more than 20 days, and I don't know if there is anything new, so today I plan to go and have a look, and by the way, I will dig up some seafood to improve the taste.

I haven't been to the beach for a long time, and I have been busy for so long and I have a feeling of relaxation, and I feel comfortable blowing the sea breeze on the beach and even want to sit here all the time, because going back means working!

During this time, the climate was relatively calm, there was not much new garbage on the beach, and only two plastic bottles were picked up halfway through the trip, so I can imagine that there was little hope for the second half of the trip.

However, while walking along the beach, I heard the sound of lapping water and made me curious, and slowly approached the source of the sound, which is a beach of reefs and stones, with an average depth of only one or twenty centimeters, and half of the surface is still above the water.

This is also a blessed place for me, where the conch and a small number of oysters that I often pick are produced, and the sound is becoming more and more obvious, and I can also see the waves.

Wow......

What a big fish!

A big fish was in a semi-stranded state in the shallows, the water was not deep enough to hinder its movement, this was simply a gift from the sea, I didn't hesitate too much, put down the back basket on my body, and rushed up with a dagger in my hand.

As I got closer, it might have seen me, and it reacted more violently, but since its head was facing the shore, it was in a more dangerous situation, and it was almost indirectly helping me.

After getting closer, I found out what it looked like, this is a sea bass with a black back and a white belly, with a body length of almost one meter, and it is estimated that its weight is more than 20 catties, or even 30 catties!

Seeing such a big fish, to be honest, my heart beat faster before going ashore, it should be the largest fish I have seen since I came to the island except for the stranded shark, for a person who has liked to go down to the river to fish since childhood, my eyes seem to be shining at this time.

Without waiting, I rushed towards it in three steps and two steps, and it was not easy to move in the water where it was about ten centimeters, but in three or five minutes I was able to get rid of it and carry it back to shore.

At first, I thought about bringing it back alive, but I thought that the pond was now dry and I hadn't caught any more fish for a long time.

And such a large carnivorous fish, even if there are fish in the fish pond, it will be eaten by it, it is not a good kind, it is fierce by nature, and its food is fish and shrimp!

It's just that killing fish is cool for a while, so much meat can't be eaten for one or two meals, and most of it can only be made into jerky for preservation.

What a waste......

I'd love to have a refrigerator!!

If I can preserve all kinds of fresh meat, then my life is simply beautiful!

Although I didn't harvest anything on the beach today, I picked up a 30-pound big fish that was enough to make me happy for many days.

When I got home, of course, I couldn't miss a few fish dinners, and I had been out of fish for a long time, so I rarely had a hint of freshness.

And now the temperature is low, there should be no problem in storing it for two days without spoiling, so the part made into dried fish is not much, only about ten catties.

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The next day, I wanted to collect some flocculent in the winter, while most of the plants were still dry, such as catkins, reed flowers, and so on.

They work like cotton, and although they are far from effective, they are a good substitute, and it is not my whims to collect these things, but to make a pillow out of them.

For more than a year, I slept without pillows, and the quality of sleep was not very good.

Of course, there are reasons for sleeping on hay and cold, but there are also reasons for the lack of this thing, which often wakes up in the morning and affects my sleep, and it has not been a long time for me to start missing it.

In the past, I often grabbed a handful of hay and padd it directly under my head when I had no choice, but it was just to solve the problem, and even the hard hay made the sleep quality worse!

If only there was cotton on the island, then I could solve both the problem of clothing materials and quilts, but unfortunately I didn't find it, not even a wild cotton.

Reed flowers are a good choice for pillows, but there are no reeds on the island, so I have to find some similar plants to collect their tidbits, and I don't have high requirements, just like the top of the dog's tail grass can get into my eyes.

In fact, the season of collecting floc should be earlier, especially in the first month or two before the Chinese New Year will be more suitable, when a lot of tidbits have not fallen to the ground, and now many have fallen to the ground and become new seeds, and the difficulty of collecting will be much higher!

But who sprained me in the winter, if it weren't for a month of recuperation, maybe now that the kitchen and toilet have been built, there will be more time to take care of the day, at least not as busy as it is now!

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The collection of floc is a very patient thing, just like picking tea, little by little it into the bag of collection, the difference is that you have to keep moving the position to find new places.

The larger plants can be as big as a ping-pong ball, and the smaller ones are only the size of a finger, but if you are lucky, you can come across a group of similar plants, and you can collect a fist at a time, which is not too much trouble to collect.

It took a whole day to collect a mixture of various flocculent and plant flowers, although the amount is still lacking, but I don't plan to waste any more effort on it, such a large mass can basically meet my requirements, and the pillow is too high for the spine is not good!

After drying them, I put them up with a short-sleeved shirt I found on the boat, and tied up a few of the short-sleeved openings with thin threads, hoping that the pillow would live up to my expectations, after all, a piece of clothing is also important here.

At this time, it would be good to have a sewing needle, and the pillow area sewn out would be larger and more comfortable, and it seemed that the production of the needle should also be put on the agenda, and its role should not be underestimated.

Although it is suspected of making it like this now, after tearing apart the mixture stuck in a ball and making it smoother, it can be used as a qualified pillow, and I have to praise my whimsy!

I couldn't wait to sleep with a new pillow at night, and sure enough, life is like this, all kinds of items that I have long been used to are indispensable, and after having a pillow, sleeping began to become a pleasant thing, and I didn't even want to get up in the morning!

It's just that I'm worried about whether it will become a thinner layer after using it for a while, so I'll have to give up the material and find something else.