No nap.

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And sleep won't be early.  I am going to bake chicken, then fry a mix of ground meat.  The chicken will be put up, overnight, then left to warm tomorrow... so I can pull it off the bone.  A terrible task, if it's cold and slimy.  So, as said, left out to warm a bit through the morning.  The burger will make for supper tonight.  A taco salad.  I really don't get bored with those.  The rest will be bagged and used for various things through the week.

Actually, even as good as I have gotten at making baked chicken, I like it so much better in soup that I am not going to bother having even a single portion of the hindquarter.  It just isn't as good.  Fried?  Yeah, maybe.  But I can't have properly fried, and my keto versions just don't cut it.  Soup... stew hopefully actually, will do.

Tomorrow, if I do what is needed, I will have a rack of ribs.  Oh, not all at once.  I will bake it, just before being done, then finish it on the grill.  I'd love to have gotten to a keto ketchup, from which to derive a keto barbeque sauce, but that just hasn't happened yet.  Then again, I do have dirty keto ketchup on hand.  I could start from that, if I could find the gumption.  Still, if I call ssa and get the rejection letter sent, I will have the last ribs I will have for some time.  As with the steak, it was a leftover from summer food fun.

I have checked the waterers.  Then, after the second check, I checked the temp.  It was 38 F, quite nice.  No need to check, actually, at least for flow.  But the mini girls drank all of their water.  I replaced it.  Ugh, but they are piggies!  They eat and drink everything available to them in ten hours?  I also put Rusty in with Hazel.  Nada.  He was too interested in sniffing her... scents.  And she was getting... hostile.  She tried everything to get in his way.  He absolutely ignored her.  She was getting mad.  I pulled him before she ate him.  Bleh.  Yeah, do have to put her in with him, it turns out.

Why the opposite worked for the woman I bought them from, she showed me how that worked... and doesn't work for me?  Bleh.  And, they are next door neighbors, so the scent is right there.  Argh!  Maybe he just wasn't in the mood.  I am going to try to breed, but will hold off to get things better arranged.  Get all the bucks their own cages, and any breeders their own cages for after... so I can put the does in with the bucks and the does will have their own place to settle in after.  Bleh.  Tomorrow, I'll see what I can do.

Since I'll be up a while, I may try to get into dishes.  I have gotten trash and recycling out, but there isn't enough to pull to the curb.  If enough else is brought together, it might still go.  Just trash tonight, recycling is next week.  I think.  But it is out.  Now, to get to cleaning the counter, clearing the fridge a bit, and the food for the week.  Life is doing well, if I can just keep up... a bit... mostly.

What else, besides a letter from ssa?  No reason to contact the lawyer, until I have the rejection letter.  Hmm... I would like to find a source for chicken feet, chicken carcass bones, pork hocks, and beef bones.  Oh, and honeycomb tripe... at least for the next beef stock production.  I can use some of this in the chicken soup, but most is for the stock.  And I need 16 and 32 ounce containers for that.  So... not quite yet, but I want to be stocked up for it, when that comes through.  It's on the list.

Oh, someone brought up roasted onions.  Which... sounds worth a whirl.  But that made me think of roasted garlic.  Now, this guy uses a smoker/griller.  Not how I will do it.  But he offers the three ways which are on my mind.  Excellent for stews, or a variety of things.  Same with onions, pickled or baked.  Oh, yes, I think so.

Later.