Ah, I am awake.

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Woke very late, nearly 20:00.  Dark, so very dark out there.  I kept trying to wake.  I simply couldn't rouse from sleep fully enough to rise.  Oh, I tried.  It was like being encapsulated in a web of sleep.  Pleasant, mostly, just... inescapable.  It was 70 up there, so it isn't cold holding me down.  It just is what it is.

Chores pretty quickly.  As well, a load of laundry had been forgotten in the washer yesterday.  Still smelled fresh, so I simply added it to the dryer.  Litter got hit, first thing.  As well, the girls were fed.  Not a lot, but a good start.  It ended there, though.  I am hoping to get to more, but dragging like an anchor, loosed and on the bottom.

The long sleeve t-shirts I ordered arrived.  I'm afraid how much they will shrink.  While I don't wash things on hot, usually tap/cold, there is always that possibility.  They have larger sizes, but the prices go up by a third for the next size.  I am hoping these will work.  These, plus long underwear, then pants or pj bottoms, and socks and shoes, should have me warm enough.

It took decades for me to be able to focus on the cold.  Though, with diabetes, it seemed warm enough.  I don't think it was, it just... wasn't noticed.  The cold takes it out of everyone.  Then again, who knows.  Maybe I really was handling the cold well, it was just the untreated heart which kept me down.  Actually, I suspect that was the truth.

The ducks still had food.  And their water was clean.  So, when I did the rabbits, I just shut and locked the door.  All good.  I didn't call about having someone take them, but will.  The rabbits were okay.  But, caught a mouse in their feed out there again.  Reminds me, I need to get some mouse traps going.

However, I am not just hitting one type.  I will be using three types.  The water traps, standard mouse traps, as well as a formula trap... actually using two 'recipes'.  The first recipe will be adding plaster of paris to flour.  The other recipe adds baking soda (or powder?  I think soda) to the flour.  The first hardens up inside them, they can't pass it, and it kills them.  The second?  They can't burp or fart.  Bon appetit.  I figure, with so many variations, they will mostly get taken out.  Who knows though.  

Traps of all sorts will be set outside.  Only the water bath and regular traps will be set inside.  I'm not sure what might happen if the girls ate a mouse with either of the ingredients.  The girls don't seem to be eating mice anymore, someone might be spreading poison, and they just won't eat them after a few bad experiences.  Or they just like their food better.  Though they really have slowed their consumption of that food.  I am wondering if it is bad?  I don't know what else to do, though.  What else to feed them.  I really can't afford better, and different?  It's all from China.  If China has fallen and is just shoveling trash out?  Yeah, I don't know.

On to a few cheese sandwiches and a fatted coffee.  Should be good enough.  While it isn't, technically, cold yet.  It is actually feeling a bit chill.  Even 72, in this front room near the computer, with lower humidity, seems rather chill, almost cold, if I am wearing sports shorts, even with the long sleeve t-shirt.  I'll put something warmer on, perhaps after a shower.

Hoping to do a bit of work tonight.  Getting a few small loads of dishes going, seeing about more laundry, and breaking down boxes?  That's sort of the goal.  Plus food.  Cheese sandwiches to start off, but something baked or grilled later... chicken, cornish game hen, burger crumble for more taco salad, or a roast if that was thawed... something warm.  Later.