Not bad.

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Pretty much all of the dishes are done.  A load of laundry is going, a big one so it won't be done for a while.  I've hit the bathroom a bit more.  I'll take a shower when I move the laundry to the dryer, then finish the bathroom after my shower.  I'll see how things are then.  It's a nice cool morning.  I can't really tell how the day is going to start.  And that won't really say how the day will go either.  One more cool day and I'll do what it takes to go hiking tomorrow morning.  Further, I should be able to get the kayak ready for a Wednesday christening, rain or shine.  Both sorts of tarps are ready, once the frame is built and attached.  I may even, when I have the thing sort of set up, mark the parts.  I wish I had the tools or skills to make the parts exactly equal.  And maybe I do.  I may check on that.  In any case, marking the various parts, some of which have to be different, and making a directions page, might not be a bad idea.  I figure I can use the waterproof canopy as the carrying bag as well.  The sun tarp allows air flow, so just wouldn't do well.

After this post I do believe I am going to boil eggs for the week and make several batches of grain mash.  Then dehydrate  two of the batches.  I need to figure out just how much dehydrated will end up giving me a cup and an half of goop when rehydrated.  Then I'll do some of the veggies I bought.  Then the fruit rollups I've been curious to do, and finally the last half of the jerky.  This time I'll be drying it all very dry.  I'll put some of that in with some of the dehydrated mash, but I'll also be making pemmican.  I could wait for cheap cranberries, or cherries and dry those, but I have enough frozen fruit to dry that alone and add that to the jerky and tallow.  Yeah, that's sort of my food stuff for the next few weeks. 

I am hoping, as I perhaps regain some footing from this mini-cool spell, that I might begin hitting the cave again.  Kitchen, living room, and bathroom, back up to snuff, and being kept up while I mess with food.  Then finish the living room shelving and get the electronics back together.  And, maybe before the month is out, begin tearing into my bedroom.  It'll be a slower go.  The heat really is tough.  I am getting a bit better with it though.  Still, slower. 

Further, I am hoping to get out once or twice a week.  Hiking, kayaking, or even just out to the bench.  It looks like I am going to have to start over with the bench.  Oh well.  This might be pushing things, but it might just open up again.  If it is cool enough in the mountains, perhaps I can figure out how to do even more, here and there.  Well, that's the plan. 

It's in the lower 60's, but the cave won't drop below 73~75.  I'm wondering if soil temp is at about the limit of the cave, so that's just as low as it will go.  I did a little research, which suggested that soil temps are around 65~70.  I don't know much about soil temps, or where exactly that reading was taken.  Might do a little research.  That might be a, or part of the, limiting factor?  Hmm...  Never can be exactly sure.  Though, perhaps, I can test my own soil temp if that isn't taken too deep.  Still, 73ish isn't bad.  Best get to the eggs and gruel.  Later.