Yes, it's going.

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I had been sitting, pretty much like a lump, then it hit me.  I didn't want to be a lump!

It started off at a slow roll.  Checking the jerked burger.  It felt dry enough and all, so I started to bag it.  About a quarter pound, give or take, per baggy.  Enough, to my mind, to fill out a reasonably entree.  Added to mixed vegetables, or with rice or pasta, and that would be a tolerable meal.  Want more?  Use two bags.  It is already salted and spiced, nearly up to my general preferences regarding heat.  As good as I could do on a first run.  Though how well that translates when rehydrated and spread over other ingredients is a whole other matter.  As well, while I started out with leaner burger than recommended, I didn't render through cooking or wash out the fat.  So this isn't long term.  Freezing might help.  Not sure I will really care for this, or the other rendered washed burger, but it isn't all about liking or not.  It's about protein that will last for a while on the trail, in a compact form.  Still, that is about five or six meals, if a single bag will do.

Then I put the dehydrator plates, and some of the other big items, to a soapy soak using my old tub in a tub washing system.  They are simply too big for any of my kitchen or other sinks, even singly.  The wire racks and cookie sheets, a large bowl, and some other things also needed to soak.  It works.  Then I went to check on laundry.  I don't have enough for a cotton load, but there was enough for both a synthetic and wool/silk load.  I separated and started with wool.  I now have a hand washer, which I will normally be using for wools and synthetics.  But the tub system is busy.  And I wanted to get these things going.  So... in they go.  Nothing going in hasn't been maltreated by the system already, so...  Hmm... I have several liner socks, but bought more.  I may put those in as well.  I suppose you can wear socks and other clothes right out of the package.  If I have the option, I don't.  They are white, most else is dark, but oh well.  Socks, mind you.  And liner socks on top.  Don't care about color, just getting the manufacturing variable tended.

And, finally, I washed up the dishes that had been setting in soaks.  Wow does wash water go bad fast.  Never mind.  They had been out of the way while messing with jerky, and for a couple of days for other purposes... forgotten out of the way.  Out of sight, and nose, out of mind.  Washed, then set to a new fresh soak.  Yeah.  Feeling better already.  But I am done for a while.  I'll just pile the clothes into one basket, not trying to keep up on it all, then hit that later.  Dishes I am hoping to push through in a couple of hours, either washing and soaking if they don't pass the sniff test, or rinsing then drying pretty closely after.  I'll hit the tub system last, as to dishes.  What they get next will depend on how well the marinade soaks out on the first run.  Pristine, no odor, required.  I just don't want jerky flavored... anything... anything but meat that is.

So, yeah.  I'm getting back in the saddle fairly well.  This post, then reading, then...  I don't know, probably check on the dishes and laundry.  After those, some more reading during a rest, I may do some sorting in my pack.  I don't mind yanking or adding a few pounds.  If I can lose a solid ten, and be satisfied, all good.  If I end up five or ten up, after all is said and done... sad by doable.  Not sure five or ten will really make much of a difference either way... ten is only a thirtieth of my weight.  *shrug*  If I dig through it all?  Then I'll do some sweeping, preparing to mop tomorrow... and tend the cat litter while I am at it.  Cooking will just have to wait until tomorrow.  I need to buy eggs anyway, so a trip to town... not a today thing.  Later.