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Bits and pieces of this and that, if nothing big, are going forward.  A meal was had, a good one.  Meats were brought out to thaw.  Some that is thawed will be cooked later.  Food is more than just important, it is vital for work.  And, yet, it is work itself.  It gets deep, quickly.  I can go without food.  I simply cannot go without food and work, or well.  Too many details for singles, to be honest.  It takes two just to get one to work well.  Something lost in and to modernism.

Beans are cooking.  On cool to cold days, especially in dry areas, cooking beans is a wonderful thing.  Are beans keto?  No, not really.  But perfection is for another time.  If I am doing more work, I need to tiptoe out past keto a bit, from time to time.  The thing is moderation as well as the right stretch.  Avoid true sugars, go with natural starches and carbohydrates.  Beans, rice (whole), potatoes, and the like.  These are, like or not, real foods.  Mixed with a gooder portion of proteins (I don't count even rice and beans as a true protein... just a partial) and solid real animal fats, and these foods will do you well.  As is, I plan to use most of the beans with ham.  Some of them, however, will be cut out and mixed in after frying up hamburger.  The smell of cooking beans is a good thing.

Then again, I am a bit unique.  Beans, as a general rule with exceptions just to prove I am not wholly inhuman, do not give me gas.  Nor do most things which disturb most people's gastrointestinal workings.  Cabbage, from time to time, will.  Radishes, beans, hot food, almost nothing else does.  Overeating, actually, is the greatest risk.  It makes enjoying beans, and the cooking thereof, quite a bit more pleasurable.

I have the furnace at 74 F and it still seems a bit chill.  Even with the beans going, and the oven earlier, at 350 F, and... a persistent chill remains.  I am hoping that all these things, plus a shower, and I might warm up.  If that doesn't do it, perhaps working might help.

I do hope to get everything planted that I have today.  Which will require removing sod and digging down.  I spoke with my neighbor about the bird house that was blown over.  He thinks just burying it is the way to go.  Well, and rewiring with "bailing wire", or what passes for that these days, onto the heavy duty t-post.  The thing is I would like to scrape it, sand it, then paint it before putting it back together and then back up.  Perhaps a waterproof sort of paint.  I may trim some of the bottom off as well.  See if I can get to good wood quickly.  So, that won't happen today.  Though I might move it over to where it can be worked on more easily... and perhaps get it out of the rain.

A shower first.  Then on to work?  That is the hope.