Back to the start.

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I have cooled off well enough.  Rested though, is another question.  I think so.  After sitting and stewing for a couple of weeks and change, I'm pretty much mush.  And I don't want to brutalize myself if tomorrow is going to be back to the heat mines.  Still, I am doing well enough to get going on some things.

I will get the trash collected and out.  Something in there has been in there too long.  I didn't get the trash out last week, doesn't help.  I have been doing dishes, slowly, in bits.  I am hoping, tonight, to finish all of them.  A bit of a push.  I want them done so I can really hit the kitchen today or tomorrow.  I want to do more dehydrating, and open up space to work with the vacuum sealer.  Nothing fancy, just a few meals, getting jerky going to be packed and to form into pemmican, and then to stay up on that and the kitchen.  I'd like to get a week's worth of food ready for the train, and get that done by the end of the week.  Then begin looking at what I could buy next month to enhance my collection.  Cooking my own stews, mixes, and such takes a bit more work.  But it is cheaper.  If I start from raw ingredients I know everything that is in there.  And if I do large batches, It works for both the trail and right here at home!  Summer ISN'T the best time to do this, but... I want it done, want to ensure the devices work, and want to be at least partially ready to go when the weather cools enough to get out.  I want to be out before weather turns, to get in shape before I have to try to do that with snowshoes instead just starting with hiking boots.  And, I think I can.  A little suffering here and now will save me down the road.  And it'll keep me off my butt, as much as possible.

So, dishes, the kitchen, a bit more in the bathroom, a load or two of laundry, and maybe the kayak shelter form.  We'll see.  It is possible.  Oh, and a shower.  The neighbor is sending the boys over to help rig my water lines tomorrow.  The little rain we got is not enough, and the grass is dying.  It's not that the work is extremely heavy, just on top of what else I will be doing I thought it might be a bit much.  With four extra hands, it should go quickly.  After that, probably bedtime.  Unless it is still cool.  I need to get to the grocery store pretty soon.  Milk, cream, butter, fruit.  Life is getting pretty good, regular, and fairly advanced compared to how I have known it.  This is as close to high level living as I have known since the Navy.  Regular food, regular medicine, at least some work, even just handling the heat is pretty good.

Toss in gearing up, food prep, learning to use these tools and techs solo, and pushing even when it hurts or is too environmentally stressful.  Not always successfully.  Sometimes it really is just in knowing and resisting.  Not in winning, or figuring it out, first or even tenth shot.  It's about know it isn't working, considering options, and living with failure... for now.  Hopefully there will be time, in time, to solve some of these little things, even big things, and find one's way to a more successful life.  I'm not just sitting there and cooking, at least without keeping some tabs on how much time I can take that, what my options are at overload, and maybe some longer term fixes.  It's good.

Yeah, I best get the dishes checked.  Most are ready to just rinse, but I will wash them again anyway.  Then put them in a hot rinse.  Then get some or all of the trash out, or what is easily ready to go.  Hmm, then gather laundry and put a load in.  I'm sure hoping tomorrow was like today.  I can definitely have the kayak ready and the kitchen done, and be ready for a hike Tuesday morning.  Rain or shine if it stays cool enough today.  Yeah, my pack is ready.  Later.