The stock has started.

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Not much else.  There is yet hope to hit dishes, and perhaps work on the cages.  I should check the temp outside.  It really needs to be forty or better to work outside for long.  At least in my current state.  Not that I get ill, but the cold slows me down.  As with great heat, too much cold just puts me to sleep.  Some veggies chopped, then cooked a bit, then port hocks in for a bit, then chicken legs and water.

I am letting that stew for a bit, to then skim off any scum.  It's... a bone thing, doesn't matter if "grass fed" or otherwise, with or without hormones, or anything else.  Especially when you know labeling is more often a lie than a truth.  Let them pay vastly too much for their food.  It's a part of killing the middle class, allowing them to use their own sword to do it... upon which they gut themselves.  So be it.

I am using r.o. (reverse osmosis) water, as I do believe in various better forms of water.  I know we need chlorine, to the tap, for instance.  I also know that chlorine at that level isn't the best for consumption or cooking.  Natural filtering?  Letting the gas escape overnight?  I don't have overnight, and not sure I trust that.  It... gets tricky, what one deals with, and doesn't.  This is what I can do, according to my understandings, with what I have, at the moment.

To be honest, I don't know if r.o. takes out chlorine.  I only know it is supposed to do so.  Same with fluoride.  Well, and anything else.  I don't know, I only believe, it takes out the impurities it is rated to removed.  Since I have a sceptic tank, and we have a shallow water base, all "wasted" water goes right back, pretty much, from whence it came.

Anyway... I have that going.  I hope to do one more washing, then a rinsing and air drying of a few groups of dishes, and maybe put the metal hay mangers on the cages, and filled.  Their water is good, I am sure of that.  And their food is a once a day thing.  Still, mangers would be good.  As well, if I have bailing wire out there anyway, I would like to get a few other things fixed, attached more securely, and else.  If... I can find it.  Bleh.

Setting up another load of waterers, getting whiskers trimmed, taking a shower, and maybe shaving?  It's all... possible.  I will if I am able.  I won't if it all falls down.  I may need a nap.  Though, if I could do the wiring stuff, then the inside work could be done when I wake, at my leisure.  Trying to figure out the best way to... fail into success... if necessary.  Ah, the alarm... to check the stewing stuff and that an half gallon jug of water is filled.  Timers, love them... when I can remember what they are for.  :p  Later.