Supper.

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Actually the last of the corned beef and cabbage.  There wasn't as much left as I had thought.  Basically about what I had yesterday and just enough for a solid meal.  And so it went.  No more cooking today, I just can't.  that did handle my hunger, it is just I was hoping to get food ready for tomorrow.  I just... can't.

I need to get to chores before long.  Sassy has been fed well enough.  She isn't around much.  I am beginning to worry about her.  Then again, she has never been all that active of a gal.  She rests more than not.  That has sort of always been the case.  I suppose, as I become more active, I just think she will be as active as myself, as she used to seem.  What I am not calculating is that I am becoming more active.  I don't realize it, but it is a fact.

I also want to get a shower, perhaps even before chores.  That and reset some of the waterers.  The little ones.  I think Sassy has been in the water with the bigger waterers.  I may dump that, and redo that set.  Which is fine.  As I have plenty of extra bigger waterers.  I am hoping, this coming month, to add even more smaller waterers.  I have five sets of larger ones, which means between five and fifteen days of reserve (not counting the ones put out).  I would like a similar grouping of small ones.  I currently have just two sets of extras.  

At six per set, with three more sets being wanted and ~$5 per waterer, that is $90?  I think so.  But, I won't be adding the whole group at once.  First, the store never seems to have more than three on hand, when it has them.  And, because I simply can't afford that much, for this, currently.  If I could get six, I'd do it.  Perhaps nine if they had them.  But probably no more, per time, if most likely three will be all that is available, if even that.  I may have to stop in several times through the month.

I'm in better shaped, to a degree.  I am getting an exhaustion headache.  I don't think it's because I am becoming more tired, it is because I am becoming more awake, more often.  And... that is a bit uncomfortable.  But, really, that is better than what has been the case frequently, even recently.  Ribs are improving, slowly.  Well, and I have started back on all meds, including insulin.  My last blood sugar read, several hours after supper, was 145.  I may have a fatted coffee, and a light dose of fast acting with it, yet this afternoon.  Maybe some painkillers, if the caffeine doesn't modify the headache.

It's all sort of going in the right direction.  And I am doing the righter things, over time.  Improvements, but still suffering from restarting medicine.  Better, in some ways.  But still pretty rough.  Really rough, from time to time.  Can't remember, think, do.  Trying, will keep at it.

I finally have guylines, stakes, and devices in... for setting up... anything I might wish to set up.  From tents, to bivvys, to tarps, or hammocks.  Some people believe in knots, as do I.  However, if you have thirty knots to arrange, in inclement weather, mechanisms are much, much, quicker and dryer to work.  Especially if they are all already on the tarp, and the stakes have their tether or guylines ready.  All that remains is to get the stakes in, connect the lines across, pull, twist, and go.  Especially if it is getting dark, is wet, windy, cold as well.  No... these are superiors.  Every tried to tie a knot when you can't feel you hands, let along fingers?  It's brutal.  Mind doesn't even want to work.  But these... much, much, easier.

Not knocking him, but my guess is this guy only goes in warmer weather, or lives in the south.  Fair enough.  Most people aren't into serious cold weather camping.  Most people can't even survive it, to be honest.  So... fair enough.  But... he still covers the material well, better than others, strangely.  Funny how things work.

I had hoped, since I was pretty sure they would arrive today, to be able to get the hammock and rain fly out and up today.  But I just don't have it.  I am hoping, maybe, to get the guylines set, for the rain tarp, yet today.  But I need to do chores, get a shower, and at least set up dishes.  Which I will push to do.  It's all... possible.  Not probable, but... maybe.

I am getting excited.  I am hoping to have it set up, and sleep in it, before long.  The gear I have should handle down to zero, easily.  So cold won't be an issue.  Heat might, if I take too much longer?  Or, maybe not.  A fifty night might not even be too terribly awful... just go with lighter gear, less of it, and such.  I am terribly excited to do just a minor camping trip, out back.  Maybe begin practicing cooking, setting up and taking down quickly, and whatelse.  And, two steps from home, should anything fail.

I still am hoping to do winter camping before I die.  This... might be the start.