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The rabbits needed water, badly.  However, this time most of them were half finished.  So fresh is very good, but not quite as desperately needed as yesterday.  They hadn't eaten most of their food, so I didn't add any.  I will check tonight, adding to those who need.  Their food consumption is definitely tied to their liquid intake.  I'll do my best for them... twice a day is about as good as I can do.

I tried the hydrant again.  Nope.  It's frozen.  I'll just have to use indoor water for them and the cats, so I refreshed the girls' water and got a bucket ready for refilling waterers.  When they thaw, that is.  I'm not sure the ones from last night are thawed.  Hard, solid, frozen in weird ways, some of them.

The strange thing is that it is only 19 F out there.  It isn't all that terribly cold.  I just don't quite get it.  It hit fast, went to more normal temps for this part of the year.  But not even as bad as it has gotten before, or usually?  Both, mostly.  I did find a pair of gloves crossed with mittens, and use those when I go out.  I put them under my jacket, which I wear around the house even when I keep it up to 75!  I put them in my arm pits, so whenever I need or want to go out, I have warm gloves.  Woolen, mostly, if you can believe adverts these days.  If so, thin, though lined with something.  Not the warmest things, but good if to mittenize, or open up and have fingers available without taking off the whole glove.

Blood sugar is 108.  Just... fine.  BP is actually a bit high, at 132/82 with a pulse of 67 though?  Strange.  I have been wearing a belly band.  I wonder if that is interfering?  I released it, got a bit lower reading but not much.  Hmm...  Oh well.  The pulse is better than I ever had it.  In my best condition, it ran ~80.  BP used to be rather normal.  And, yes, I took medicine an hour or two ago.  From now on I will loosen my belly band an hour or two before testing.

Hmm... something to eat?  I still need to fry the burger.  Though, really, that is for later.  A cheese sandwich, a portion of pork rinds with a touch of hot sauce, and perrier.  Sounds good to me.  I am going to try to eat all within an eight hour window.  So, after this lunch, I'll want to eight in a few hours.  Just, say, two hours.  That way I can test after eating.  But I best get to eating.  This will be the beginning of intermittent fasting.

In time, I will squeeze that down to six hours, then maybe four... or go to one meal a day?  We'll see how it works out.  Then, every two weeks, fasting.  Have to be careful with insulin.  Might have to cease taking it while fasting?  I think so.  Might mess up blood sugar in the short run, but worth it in the long run.  Perhaps stopping all insulin the day before I begin fasting, then fast for two days.  Yeah, probably... if I get to that point.  Then again, a plan is what you take into failure, in order to sort out what really needs to happen, isn't it?  Yes.  Just shake your head yes.  Or be quiet, meaning you haven't done these things before, without someone telling you what to do.  You are welcome!

Yes, on to a lunch.  Some more gaming.  And, then... actually cooking the burger first, then to gaming, on a timer, so I eat shortly enough.  Ugh.  Later.