It is difficult to keep pushing.

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Even just doing the dishes, hoping to finish in time to get a shower so as to take a nap in order to be able to help with the raking?  Cat meet tail.  Or so it seems.  I keep cheating, by adding more to the dishes though.  And yet, what is being washed has been in the queue for a while.  Quart jars from a pack that had been opened, a few used, and from an unopened pack... a manual puree twist device that has been on my shelf for months.  I didn't even do everything.  There are still a few items I would like to wash.  I finally put my foot down though.

I have washed most of the dishes.  Actually all of those I had in soak and some of the easier adds.  I didn't want to put really nasty pots and pans in, but "clean" new wouldn't mess up the water.  All of the jars, lids, and popper tops (they are canning jars) are washed, dried, and set to add several salts and sugar.  I'll put a label on each, masking tape with a date, anyway.  These are supposed to last well.  Time will tell.  I want them to be more than hand dry though, I want them air dry to boot.  Water is the one thing that could mess up these grains.  Hmm... might see about a desiccant, for dry foods.  I am sure I have small packs of those, air sealed, around somewhere.  Might not work, might be just what was needed.

The last part of the dishes are simply soaking.  I am resting.  I did get the compost veggies bagged and out.  For now they are just in with the weeds, in the wheelbarrow, from the other day.  I set up the small bin for going forward.  Oh, and I have decided, if at all possible, to dice any veggies I put compost.  Some will go into compost, some will be bagged and frozen, to later be processed down then frozen as worm food.  Well... it's all a theory.

My herb seeds arrived.  Much to my lament, almost all of the seeds suggest they grow better in full sun.  Hmm... that isn't easily doable for me.  I have several planting options.  A few rather small but self watering and easy to check planters is one easy way, but it would take a lot of space, somewhere, and might be a temptation for the girls (cats).  The other option is a wall hanging, multi-compartment rig.  It's smaller than it looked online... always seems to be one way or the other... even when I measure according to their stats.  Still, it would work for quite a number of plants, smaller ones.  Might be a starter method, for transplanting?

I finally found horseradish tubers.  I also found 'Jerusalem artichokes'.  I ordered both.  I also ordered inexpensive five gallon planters.  I won't put either into the ground... just too aggressive, invasive.  I won't build another monster, or group of them.  I think I can at least keep these alive, and they would be quite appreciated in a longer term grid down.  Well, much as manna, there are limits.  And, yet?  Shut up.

Yeah, I'm getting there.  While I rest I often do more research.  I have a lower portion of drywall in a room that is damaged.  It's a long bottom strip.  I have been trying to figure out how to cut it out.  I know how to fix drywall now.  But getting it off is another thing.  Some of it is in a narrow confine, so will be trickier yet.  An oscillating tool seems to be the trick.  I tried a dremel kit, but that didn't work well at all.  This tool would not only work well for that piece, but, in time, if I ever get to the bathroom, it would allow me to cut out a place for an inset medicine cabinet.  Yeah... I'm still going to go there.  Hmm, might also make for some other interesting projects on my blackbag list.

I am pushing.  Just by continuing to do.  And, yet, I will continue.  At least until the raking is done.  If I miss it, so be it.  If I do it, better yet.  Then another day down.  Maybe two days off.  And probably no work.  I mean none... if I can keep my hands idle.  When I'm in this mode, feeling it or not, some aspect of my body just want to work.  Later.  Or good night.