Not too bad out there.

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I didn't check the thermostat, but it seemed... okay out there.  Probably in the 15 to 25 range?  The rabbits were happy to see fresh water.  They all still have food, or the ones I checked.  Probably won't eat, but... who knows.  Tonight or tomorrow I need to get fresh water from the hydrant.  Which means thawing it out.  I should look for a parts kit.  As the reason it may be freezing is because it has a gasket leak inside?  I suspect so.

I have an alarm set, to feed the girls in a bit.  I am having a fatted coffee as I wake.  Will have something else shortly... perhaps a taco salad?  Maybe sardines on those keto crackers?  Or without the crackers, to cut cabs.  I may try to crisp the skin on the chicken, that might help.  The soaking may make those soggy, and perhaps it is taking up the vinegar, making it taste off?

I don't know.  Next time, I'll try just a brine.  Maybe the vinegar doesn't work well.  Well, and dry them out a bit before cooking them.  Sure extends the cooking process though.  I don't know, I'll keep trying.  Especially since chicken can be a superior protein consumable... if I can cook it, processed as needed, so as to be able to eat enough of it.

I am hoping to do more than just sit today.  What?  Laundry, dishes, drilling holes in the pipe for installing i-bolts and then setting up the hammock.  As mentioned, something I ordered was an underquilt for a hammock.  It is supposed to be comfortable to zero degrees, f.  I'd like to check it.  It isn't even that cold, so...  Still, I'd like to begin seeing about winter camping, but starting in my back yard.

Perhaps I will need more.  Beside my various multi-layer sleeping bag sets, and the underquilt, I may need a high-r value (well insulated) sleeping pad.  And, just maybe, an overquilt.  There is only one way to know.  And, to be honest, I would like to try it on the coldest day, with high winds... as if I got stuck in it, out there.  Because, I have no doubt, if I go out there, I... will get stuck in it.  It is how my life is.  Now, I don't mind, I just want to come back.  I have, always, before.  If but for the grace and blessings of God, even though it has hurt.  Or... because it hurt?

No, I want to find out what I and my equipment can take, and in a place where if it isn't quite up to snuff, getting out isn't at the cost of fingers and toes, or life itself.  God gave me a responsibility.  I take it serious.  And, yet, He knows I must go out there.  Or... plan and configure so I may.  Later.