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Chicken parts?  I can find the feet.  And really?  Those, to me, are essential.  However, finding back or other bones is impossible.  It seems they don't bone the chickens, at least locally.  And if done at plants, they don't then sell bones.  Probably milled into feed, or... else.  Okay.  Worth a shot to seek out.  What can I do?  Well... I can, I just realized, cook a whole chicken first, let it cool enough to shred, then put the carcass right back in, with the feet... purchased separately.  I won't get much liquid in that first run.

However, in the second run, I will remove the carcass bones, if adding a few more feet.  No more hogs feet.  That is good, and all, just... I want pure chicken.  Anyway... I might, if adding more chicken feet, be able to make a third batch.  Yes, I want a lot of broth, especially since I drink a pint or two of it weekly, and perhaps make a stew or soup once or twice a month... a big batch which will last about a week as I split portions off.

So, there is the trick.  And it's not a bad one.  Cooking the whole chicken, then using the juices and carcass bones, plus feet, to make two or even three batches of bone broth... mixing all that to get an averaged blend between too rich at the first batch or two and too thin certainly in the last batch.  I'd only have to do that once or twice a year, to be honest.  Though I would still need to make chicken, for soup, but that would be a very quick thing.  Further, I can then save the carcasses for the future.

WAIT!  Hmm, with so much broth already on hand, I merely need to cook a chicken, strip the meat, and freeze the carcass and juices... all ready for next time.  As well, I might just freeze the meat if I am not ready for soup.  Life gets easier and easier when things start to make sense, and practical experience begins to happen.  Looking for the easy way is impossible until you... sort of... have done the harder ways a time or three or dozen.

Breakfast is getting ready.  The grill is not doing as it should.  Slowly heating today.  Though, oddly, the temp dropped between two and four degrees, instead of going up.  A cold front, or chill wind, or... something... is fighting to actually cool despite the sun.  Clouds moving in, but not completely darkening.  It's... spring... or acting like it.  Perhaps trying to be winter.  Never the mind, I will get the grill going, and pleasantly sizzle those small but delicious meats.

God gifts me greatly, so I'll send Him odors which He finds quite pleasing.  There isn't much there, but enough for His needs, and certainly mine.  After brunch... too late for breakfast... I'll begin searching for the "bailing wire".  Again, again.  I'll give it an half hour to hour, then give up if not found this time, in that time.  The considered taste of sour grapes on this is so bitter yet sweet!  I want some tasks done, but can't do big ones, get out, nor seem able to find the pieces and parts for little ones.  I might bring wood out, for the beginning of the creation of a stand for the low rabbit hutch.  And, I could begin digging out and bagging rabbit droppings.  Either, and, or?  We will see.  And whether I find the wire or not I should be able to get some of those other things going.

Later.