Done...

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Chores, cats, and breakfast, anyway.

It was brutal out there, for me.  And, when I walked out, I say Kay... my momma duck... all alone.  My face just crumpled.  But, then, from under the extra rabbit hutch, out popped the ducklings.  Four, still, for now.  Fed, watered, and otherwise left alone.

The rabbits look to be in good shape.  Food was gone in two of the pens, oddly.  Still, so be it.  Water wasn't even needed with all.  The walk out to the farther outbuilding was oppressive.  Just the heat.  It is bad enough in this room, at 82.  Out there is just plain nasty at 96.  At least I have the more interior of the house.  Well, and ac is doing fairly well, so far.  And that was just one unit.  Though, to be honest, I am not sure if two units do better, or somehow fight each other?  I just don't know.

Something smells heavily of ammonia.  I can't locate the smell.  If I had a tom cat, I would suspect him.  Do girl cats ever go territorial, indoors?  Perhaps I am hitting ketosis, and it is just my breath I am smelling... especially with the fans moving the air?  It is actually possible.  I tend to go back to ketosis pretty quickly.  Sometimes a carb load doesn't even throw me fully out of keto, if it does set me back to the initial stages... which does produce that bad breath, body odor, and such.  It's a strange diet.  Oh, and if going into ketosis, and it's warmer out?  That seems to exacerbate the more negative aspects.  Just... warning you.

I am playing a console game.  For now it's what I can do.  A kefir with it.  Should have taken a dose of insulin too.  Oh well, next time.  Though I am still hungry... if I can't quite tell if it is physical or mental... it's faint, but nagging.  I think I'll set a timer, for say two hours from now... which would be three hours after breakfast, then have something.

Ugh.  I need to pull meat to thaw.  Bratwursts, chicken, and a roast.  They don't need to that, fully.  Or at all.  But I prefer them thawed.  The instapot only produces so-so food when from frozen.  From thawed it seems to do a better job... to my way of thinking.  As well, I will begin a jar of cherry vinegar... starting with a pack of those dried cherries I sampled.  

One thing about that?  I needed a lot less fruit than I thought.  First, it swells... bigly.  Second, you just need about the bottom third, of the swelled fruit.  Which, means, about a quarter to half cup of dried fruit per quart?  Give or take... no more than the bottom eighth, or so, of raisins or similar.  I also add a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, with mother, which has been shaken to add some of the mother.  Just a starter.

So far, no mold.  Though, one thing I would recommend... or not depending on how you see things?  Don't drink right out of the jar!  Gah!  People freak me out.  I almost did it too, though.  Until I realized what a huge problem that is.  No, just get a small cup.  Pour your sample into that.  Then rinse it after use and keep it right there.  Easy.

It was started at the 25th.  In theory, it will be done the 24th.  If I start the cherry vinegar today, It will be done the 4th of July.  What a kick.  Oh, I have some other fruit... pear I think.  Might as well start both of those today.  Will they be any good?  Will I like them?  Will I even find a use for them?  One thing at a time.  If nothing else, in these small amounts, I could use them for occasional vinaigrettes and other dressings, being that they can last years.

Well... on to... back to... gaming?  Bleh.  I want to work.  Don't have it in me, at the moment.  Later.