Back up.

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I hit the dishes first thing.  I'll put some in the dishwasher, though there aren't enough to do a load.  Brushed my teeth.  Thought about feeding Sassy, but it's too early.  Or is it?  She has lost some weight, more active I think.  So, I don't mind feeding her.  Just... don't want to start overfeeding her.

What else today, tonight?  Not a lot.  I must admit, I need a bit of a down time.  But if I can continue to work, I will.  Clearing the kitchen table would be good.  Cleaning the countertops and kitchen sinks would be good.  Gathering all the empty boxes, wherever.  Mostly just upstairs, some in the living room?  No, those are full... need to set up storage areas though.  For the extra tp, mattresses, and such.  Tearing down boxes.  And, maybe, just maybe, beginning in on ironing some of my dress short and long sleeve more casual, or dress casual, shirts.  The good ones are dry cleaned.  The standards, tshirts and daily drivers, don't get, or need, that attention.  Sheets and pillow cases?  I... don't think so.  I'd love that, but won't put in the time on that.

Up, for a bit?

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I didn't get to another thing?  Hmm, well, maybe I put the laundry in the dryer away?  Or had I finished that earlier.  I just can't remember.  I didn't, however, put the laundry from the wash into the dryer.  But it's still fresh enough that a redo isn't necessary.  So, first thing, after giving Sassy food, that was put in.  I won't start more laundry though.  Other things to do, and things coming up.

I also unloaded the dishwasher.  Wow, the kitchen is slowly smoothing out.  After, I started coffee.  I won't reset the dishes from earlier to their final soapy soak.  I need to shower later.  I'm not sure I could work through more dishes before showering.  So... I'll just leave that open.

Getting there.

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The laundry, first load still, has just been set to a final spin.  Thirty minutes?  Will find out.  So, obviously, the second load is going nowhere until then.

The dishes were finished.  So, I pulled them and put them all away.  And started loading for a next load.  Don't have enough quite yet.  Still, two loads through, and up.  Not bad.

Still going.

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I reset the dishes I want to hand wash, and some others that if I can improve enough I'll put into the dishwasher as a final load sometime yet tonight.  I put another load of laundry in to wash, while the first load dries.  As well, I am working on another pot, that I burned food in.  Beans, I think, a long time ago.  I've been softening it up every once in a while.  I did another pan I burned beans in, though just earlier tonight, with the brat.  Some of the beans were good, anyway.

As well, I had a few jackets, which have been washed and were airdrying (for... a while).  I nose checked those.  Good.  Can go stale, especially in my home.  Working on that.  But good, so I hung them on the better covered rack.  Bits and pieces of other things.  Dishes are... taking their time.  The ice machine ran out of water, so I filled it and it's still going?  I should check.  Two loads of ice into the first ice bucket.  Could take another load, load and a half?  Will see.

I thought I was just about done.

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Wasn't seen room to do more.  I hadn't become exhausted.  I just felt like I had finished, gotten hung where I was.  Still, I hoped to put the things back together on the freezertop.

I did that.  Added a hotplate while at it.  I have it around for odds and ends, just never did put it up, to use.  I had to clean it off first, but now I have a nice little burner, off to the side.  Electric.  Glass flattop type.  It's... good to have something extra, I think.  For... reasons.

Attempting change.

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I was able to be awake until noon.  Then woke around 17:30?  Give or take a quarter of an hour.  Had to push, but got it, or nearly.  Sleep was good.  It hasn't been the best, lately.  Trying to stay up later, push through to day again, and even though I was failing, the effort was causing a strain on me.

I put the dishes in the machine last night, the last, second, load.  I was sure I turned it on.  But, this morning, the machine was open and the thing hadn't run.  Very strange.  I set it to go as soon as I noticed.

Well, there is that.

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I woke up around midnight, a bit before?  Took a shower.  Set up dishes.  Reset laundry, and now will go change that around.  Brush my teeth a final time then on back to bed.

I made a run to the post.  Was something in?  It was.  So, I got that, and the rest of my mail.  Then, being out, went to town for a bit of food.  Wasn't sure.  There were two places open, I got food.

Sleep was generous, gorgeous.

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Yes, the wool blanket back on did the trick.  Why so hot that one night?  I think it is because it was a hot day, I did a lot of work, hadn't properly cooled off, pushed my body and it was still running on all twelve cylinders, and I tried to sleep.  To be fair, some days my body gets stuck in high gear, and I can't do much about it.  That was partly it that day, the other part was that my mind was so weary, it couldn't think through to solutions.

All good.  Oh, and I am sleeping, mostly, in the buff.  That is such a comfortable way to sleep... if you are clean.  Just so nice.  No place gets too hot.  Every place gets some breath.  No binding or pulling or hot spots, or else.  Very nice.  As well, the way this bedding setup works, it is SO easy to make the bed in the morning.  I love getting into a freshly made bed.  The other blankets and such were so heavy!  It amazes me that I slept so cold with the old way, and so nice and toasty with these light items.  The loft in the duet, but the space in the woven cotton, and even the nicely textured wool blanket.  The blankets, while dense, are also airy.  And the duvet is pure puffery.  Beautiful.

Exceptional sleep.

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Mostly.  The one problem, so far, is that their isn't as much support in these mattresses.  Okay... so how to ameliorate that?  Perhaps a plywood panel und the mattresses?  Okay.  But not 3/4", perhaps 1/4"?  At most 1/2" plywood, I think.  Though even that might be a bit stout, fierce, to sleep on?  Not exactly sure. Will find out.

For warmth?  I... was expecting to be a bit chilly, needing another blanket, or two.  I normally sleep with... five blankets?  Plus a top sheet.  Sometimes using the electric blanket as just a blanket, sometimes getting heat from there.  I had two blankets, the duvet, and a top sheet.  And I was fine.  I had to kick my legs out, for cool air, fairly often.  I am thinking of pulling the wool blanket, seeing if just the cotton blanket, duvet, and top sheet will be enough.  But I did sleep... splendidly.  I'll admit that.  Even being too warm was an easy fix, given how easy it was to cool off.  No struggling, because I wasn't buried in the blankets and else.  They were just a covering, not a wrap.

Not as planned.

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But, it will do.  Down around 22:00, perhaps as much as a quarter after if I thought closer to the hour?  I was so tired, again, when I went to bed, could make it to bed, that the last digits of time didn't stick.  The alarms were set for four and six.  I heard, and turned off, the four alarm.  Immediately.  I knew that wasn't going to happen.  I woke at 5:47... or so...  But there was no way I was getting up even then, nor at six when the alarm was set to go off.

So, I turned that one off ahead of time.  I wanted to be up, but there just wasn't a way.  And... I believed... I could still make it all work.  Just a little more sleep?  I hoped... I could wake reasonably.  I simply didn't have much choice in the matter.  I could either make myself extremely miserable, and probably crash anyway in a few hours, or try to get a bit more sleep and wake at a better time, in more control.

A few minor things.

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I finally got whiskers trimmed, and a shower.  Before that, I finally found the last blanket, the washed the two wool blankets.  I didn't get the other drying rack up, or take the stuff that is hanging on the one that is up, down of it.  So... took the blankets outside to air dry on the line.  

The sun was out just enough, I think, to get that process going well.  One of them wasn't in the sun, the other wasn't quite dry.  So I shifted them a bit, and I'll bet they are both dry now?  Will check now?  ...  Yes... dry, very.  Brought in.  And, while at it, I put most of the new other sheets into the wash.  A few duvet covers and one last sheet will be washed later.  Then mattress covers, if they arrive, will be washed tomorrow.  Then I should be all set up bedding, and weekly changes, plus quarterly mattress airing out, or more often if of a mood or seeing a need.

Not bad.

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Brushed.  Now to trim and shower.  Brought a few blankets down, to be washed.  Looking for another.  Will find it.  Cleared the litter boxes, been doing very well with those.  Then fed the little one.  She was well ready.  Set the water to heating, for tea.  The reset the r.o. system for another fresh carafe, after pouring a water for the day and then refilling the tea pot water heater.

While out there, I checked the temp, outside.  It is just enough above 32 F to be a thawed world, not frozen if you know what I mean.  And, yes, moisture is about.  I fetched the trash and recycling barrels.  In spite of no neighbor I could see, with recycling bin out, it was recycling day.  They picked it up, anyway.  All good.

Not bad?

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I wasn't moving fast enough to hold the laundry until after a shower.  So, before digging in to start on the dishes, I set a load drying.  Then did the dishes I had prepared last night.

After washing those, a first go anyway, I moved them out so a shower can be had, when possible.  Then I put the clothes which finished the wash cycle into the dryer.  Then set up another load to wash.  There might be enough for a load of whites to finish that production, for now.

Breakfast!

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Well, a bit ago.  From the griddle.  The potatoes took a very long time, but I did get them done correctly.  I had meant to buy french fries and hashed potatoes, but got fries and tator tots instead.  Either wasn't thinking clearly, simply grabbed the wrong bag, or changed my mind later?  I... don't remember.  Who does?

Still, I got to it.  As well, I fried two of the sausage patties.  Not big, and only two, which is... plenty.  Along with those, I had three eggs.  It wasn't all that much food.  But I am absolutely stuffed.  Everything was done just right, and warm... at the start.  Eating in the front room, it cooled off a bit too quickly.  But I have turned the furnace down to 68.

With it warming outside, 47 last I checked, I don't need as much heat.  On days that are warmer, like today, I will turn the furnace down.  Which will make some rooms even cooler.  At least until the sun begins turning this front room into a heatbox again.  Still, that will do.  I will just have to begin retreating back into other parts of the house, and putting ac up.  Only one, as it is turning out.  Though both in means I can do the cooling on the cooler side of the house.  It... does make a difference in the upstairs open room.

The patties were finished first, and set off.  But I just put them back on while frying the eggs over easy.  I didn't do a perfect job with the eggs, but didn't break the yokes, and they were cleanly done without being overly done.  It's just that they could have been cleaner.  I ripped some of the whites.

After finishing the food, I put it on a paper plate, inside a smaller shipping box left over.  Closing that up as a minor warming box.  Did well.  Then I cleaned the surface and lightly oiled it... using several paper towels to spread the oil and remove excess.  I plan on buying cloth towels, instead of going through rolls of paper towels.  Especially if I am going to eat off the thing more like on a daily basis.

A good morning.

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I can't be certain when I went to bed.  I think it was around 17:00, maybe as much as an half hour past.  It wasn't 18:00, at least a quarter away.  But it might have been just a few minutes after 17:00.  My memory became... problematic.  Though too, and again, after resetting it correctly, it looks like my alarm clock, upstairs, is back on central time.  Though was it that way last night, and whether that was the clock I used as reference, are both questions to which I simply don't know the answer.

Sleep was good.  I woke at what I thought was a bit after three.  Central time, or eastern time?  It is 02:48, actual time.  I am not sure how long it took me to actually wake, figure out clothing, and shoes, and... I... spent a lot of time waking and getting up and going.  But, no, I think... it was just, probably, all within an half hour.  Gah!

Sleep was good.  Woke several times not remembering quite where I was.  Idaho?  New York City?  Iowa?  On a destroyer, a sub?  I could tell, after a short listen, that it wasn't NYC.  Though, in these days?  Maybe it is a dead city?  Or does it ever die?  Perhaps only in the mausoleums the rich inhabit, and those neighborhoods?  At least until the hood comes for them in bulk.  I am not sure I ever sorted out where I was?  Maybe.  I just don't remember getting to that point.  I think I was asking out loud, in case a woman was around.  Waiting for a possible, sleepy, woman's voice, asking "Hmm?  What's up babe?".

Downstairs and upstairs is all around 70.  I think, oddly, it was warmer near me.  Windows were closed, but a fan on.  Just upstairs, on me.  It was 73 near me.  it is 45 outside.  Not too cool to enjoy, actually.  So I opened the front door just a bit, and have a fan going in the front room, to balance me, the machine, router, and light.  Staying right at 70.

I still have two jackets hung out.  Those are thick hefty material, and layered of it.  More cold fall through colder spring items, which will be put up after washing.  I have my synthetics ready to go out on the line in a bit.  Don't really want to do it in the dark.  Not afraid of the dark, that is... one of my claimed zones.  It's more a matter of not wishing to hang things wrong.  I will be trying to figure out how best to hang things so the seems are right, and they fold well.  I need to see to do this thing correctly.  Maybe when I have developed a best practice, then I can do it in the dark.

Still very pleased with the chicks.  Maybe some will make it, maybe none.  Life isn't in my hands.  Neither is death.  Not fully, or in very many ways.  For life, there must be death, of course.  But, for whom the bell tolls?  That is not within my purview, even when it seems to be.  Even God, in a dream, told me death is not preferred.  A whispered thing.  A thing I took to heart.  I... didn't like the restraint, initially.  Does He know with whom He was speaking?  Yes, and probably better than I know.  So be it.  I have come to... if not understand?  To... cope with, or... accept, perhaps even rationalize.  If He asks it, then so be it, as far as I am able.  Hey!  I thought I was Cain!  :p

I didn't get dishes started.  But I will today.  One thing at a time, as much as I can do, and at it.  I did get laundry not only, I think, all loads possible in and done, most dried, and much of it upstairs to be finally sorted, folded, hung, but towels folded and mostly away, and... a very good run on those.  Took all day, small batches, when and what I could do.  Hanging the coats about busted my balls, but... And the towels, when I hung those.  Ugh.  Still, it's all a start.

The hope is to finish dishes, then begin clearing and cleaning.  I have the counters in half decent shape.  They and the cooktop need a more thorough clearing and cleaning, but are so-so to start.  Then to hit the table, and get to where I can begin sharpening blades, and maybe having my meals, and doing business, out there, on that.  Well, and finishing the bathroom.  

I would like to get the bathroom to absolute spic and span cleanliness, then keep it that way.  I have been keeping the toilet, and sink, really well... once I figured out how to get the sink clean.  The tub is clean, but needs sorting a bit.  Ugh.  One thing at a time, but getting there.  I wonder if if it is plastic, from the base of the plastic tub I use as a wash basin.  Perhaps, with very hot water, it melts a bit onto the porcelain in the cast tub?  Anyway...

Well... that's that, for now.  Milk should be showing up today.  Five gallons, and cream.  Yes, I am going through that much milk, turning it into kefir.  I may have to add one more jug.  I am also practicing to see if the jars do better with the lids tight, or loosened a bit.  

For the vinegar, yes that is still a thing, it works far better to shut and tighten the lids.  If I leave them a little open, white potentially mold begins to settle on top.  As well, I have found that if any fruit begins to come to the surface?  Remove it.  But with a water fill, NOT with a spoon.  Swirl too.  A spoon may be handy if the stuff has gotten to the sides, at the top, and is clinging.  

The last few days, after flushing the mold very well and consistently, twice a day, have been mold free... with the lids cranked down.  Not airtight lids, but... I'm not sure that is wise either.  Anything forming at the top gets dumped, then rinsed, and replaced with fresh water.  It is beginning to do well.

I suspect the water kefir should be changed.  One last dumping of it all?  Or this and next time?  Then on to getting that going for real, and beginning to bottle it in those swing top, old time soda bottles.  A little fruit in with them, as they second ferment on the counter for a day, then into the fridge for a couple of days.  Headspace and a little caution are your friends in these processes.

Well... enough about all that.  Good morning and good day.

Problems?

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Solutions.

Someone has been using my sink, in the bathroom, to clean oily, greasy, hands, tools, or something.  I have been setting things up so that it is more difficult to get in.  But that doesn't completely stop all of the activity.  They used to leave the bathtub and sink like that, now just the sink.

Well, that was causing a backup, or slow drain anyway.  But, right at the moment, just in the sink.  I have stuff for that, and it works quite well.  But I had to get the mechanical drain plug out.  I... first had to tinker, to remember... exactly... how to remove that.

Some have a hook, which can be undone from the bar.  This one has to have to bar removed from behind the drain pipe.  I was, after a bit of tinkering, able to sort that out and get it done.  A bit of tinkering... then... oh yeah... best put the bar and attachment assembly back on, or drain water will go out the back as surely as it will go down the pipe.  Check... right after a dose of reality hit the floor.

Fine.  So, I had to chase Sam out.  But she was just in seeing what I was up to.  Didn't like getting chased out.  Women and underfoot, cat, human, dog... all the same.  Anyway, yeah.  The chemical puts off rather strong odors, and Sam doesn't smell so well these days.  I opened the window, put stuff down, ran hot water... which activates the stuff, shut the door and got out for a while.  I turned on a fan, too.

A bit later, I returned and gave it another shot of stuff and hot water.  Then, again, scooted and let it do it's work.  Returning a bit later, it seems to have done it's work.  Then, to degrease the sink.  It really gets filthy.  I had been wondering if it was backup, from the septic tank.  Which... might have been true if it was both the tub and sink (at least, but lets just say they offered relief enough that it didn't get to other plumbing drains).

The problem with it just being the sink is... that wouldn't happen.  Assuming the above assumption, it would need both.  Further, it really wouldn't bring grease in.  I don't put grease out.  No.  This is someone using my sink for washing filthy greasy hands, or parts/equipment.  I better not catch whoever is doing it.

Yes, I sleep so hard I wouldn't know.  I try to keep the place locked up, but... you can't keep the dishonest out.  It happens rarely, anymore.  Though, I am not sure if it is a misuse, or if it is sabotage.  I best not ever catch them doing it.  Things, people, will be broken.

Anyway, I just had to finish up.  To one degree, the good thing about doing this was I was finally able to get the drain plug set back up correctly.  I have been having to manually reach behind and down, and pull the bar.  I may have to work on it more, but I got it fairly tight and well done.  Still, you know how these things go.

After that, I used degreaser in the sink basin.  It did work.  The last stuff I tried didn't work well.  Too mild.  This stuff is... nasty.  Rubber gloves and eye protection highly recommended.  It did work.  But it also tells me that the stuff in the sink wasn't backup.  It was something being added to the sink, down through it.  As I said, misuse/abuse or sabotage, that I don't know.  There are some who... would do so, locally.  On both sides of various fences.

But, for now, it is done.  I used some of the new degreaser on somethings in the tub, but that didn't work.  I don't know what it is in there.  It looks like grease, but has had no reaction to any degreaser, soap, or various other cleaning supplies I have tried.  I have no idea what they put in there, or dumped in.  It's been a while, is wearing off a bit, but... I just don't know.

As I was finishing, I was beginning to feel very off.  Couldn't be blood sugar.  I just had a pan of beans and burger.  With a small dose of insulin.  But, I was wrong.  Blood sugar had dropped to 58!  This is really becoming annoying!  I do little and it crashes, I do a lot and it ends up over 200.  I wonder if they are adding things to some of my food in the fridge.  You aren't paranoid if they really are out to get you.

A couple of rolls of glucose tabs later, and I'm almost feeling human again.  Well... as human as a non-human can feel.  Later.

Odd how things happen.

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I started with a box of food for the downstairs pantry.  Then I remember mouse traps.  Oh, but a broom and dustpan as well, to sweep down there.  I noticed how bad the floors are.  Hmm, might as well sweep, at least the back porch and on down, collecting it all down there.  It became crazy.

So, yes, I swept most of the back porch, and steps down into the basement, sweeping cobwebs I could reach and any ledge available as well.  I swear I have swept the glass down there three times.  Is it a ghostly echo?  Seriously, I have swept it three times to my memory.

Anyway. swept and picked up.  It could use another more thorough shot.  It will get it, if I can keep up.  At this point, energy was draining too quickly to do more.  With that done, I pulled out what I had thought was a single trap.  Four.  Live catch.  Okay.  So I sorted them out, and put them in places where, when they go off, other mice would be less likely to see.  Grain pails make nice little blind nooks, as do corners and the divider between shelves that goes all the way to the floor.  Four are set and ready.  I will check them each day.  I will probably have other things to go down, and could always sweep again in a day or two.

As well, the cans were stowed.  Everything down there, now, is in metal or very thick plastic.  No ramen noodles or peanut butter crackers in thin plastic and cardboard.  Never again, that sort of stuff, if for more reasons than one.  Keto, mice feed, and even if not keto, it isn't good food.  Sugar, soy, whatever else.

Zapped though.  Very tired.  Should I have done that?  I did get the ducks fed and out too.  Still, now it will be a couple hours before I can work.  Oh, I'll may garlic crostinis for the pate, though.  And kefir along side it when ready.  Ugh... I need to go down the steps again... butter.  Oh well.

It looks like another dark day.  It is 30 F out, last I looked.  Dreary, as well.  The waterers, oddly, are still running, and not completely used.  All good.  I'll get the rabbits right before hitting dishes.  A good start, even if that wasn't in the plans.  I will feel better every time I go out back.  Amazing what a little time, curiosity, and something else... can do in a short amount of time.  Sweating for it, but all good.

When the shower is done, and dishes are completed...  Wow.  I am not sure I have ever had it this good since I moved in.  Things are being set up.  Cleaned.  Cleared.  I am learning to throw things.  Could it be useful?  A tin can, on the moon, might be a Godsend.  But here?  Not so much.  Though... it might do well for the swirly mousetrap.  I just don't need a dozen.  If that was more about not having the energy to sort than it is about trying to hold on to things.  I could toss all day, with a little help.  Later.

Dishes.

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It went well.  It went quickly.  So well and so quickly I almost went on to hit the rest.  Then I realized several things.  First, it would take several washes to get those right, and some soaking.  Second, I am just that one step away from exhaustion.  I can feel that, now.  Perhaps being more tired, or more aware, I realize I am tip-toeing around an energy crisis.  Finally, I want a shower before bedtime.  So... no.

Still, I got everything in, done and through.  It is all out air drying.  The cast was given paper towel drying, or they ruin my towels!  Sitting on the stove top.  They won't get seasoned tonight.  But, soon.  It is wonderful to have nearly all the dishes done.  Only long lost and recently found left to do.  Oh, I am sure, as I go through the rest of the house, I will find more.  Odd how things can get tucked in somewhere, forgotten, then buried.  Especially if one can't always stand for more than an half hour for months.

I had thought about supper, but I'm just not... able, willing, or needing food, cooking, more cleaning.  I will rest on my laurels for this one night.  Plenty of meat thawing, food in the fridge, canned foods here and there.  Oh, maybe a kefir though.  If I'm not sure I call that food.  It is, but I don't call it that.  I think of it as a drink.  A thick drink.  Thick bones in that thick drink.  :)  Love that thick bones.

Yes, in a bit, I'll get up and get kefir.  Then give an hour or two and shower.  An hour or two after that I will get the birds closed in.  Hmm, no, that's too long.  I don't want to be up more than three hours more.  So, in an hour, kefir.  Shortly thereafter a shower.  Then a few hours after, or when my hair dries, the birds go in and I crash.  Should be a good sleep.

Quite a good day, for having to limp, and crash, and shimmy past energy issues.  It's good.  Tomorrow?  Another shower, the found dishes set up and hit pretty hard and fast, chores of course.  A few business arrangements and calls.  Perhaps breaking down boxes, taking some down, and more work upstairs when I wake and go to bed.  Yes, even tonight, even if it is just five or fifteen minutes, I will work up there.  The vacuum and baking powder didn't go up.  This time... perhaps.

A few aches.  To be expected.  I may take something for it.  I keep meaning to take pain pills, then forget.  It usually melts away, the pain, but this... I think this will be with me all night if I don't tend it while upright.  I... remember these things... sometimes... when doing a bit better.  I am remembering.  Wish I could more often.  Quite a thing.  The cave is getting done at some slow but steady speed.

I keep looking at steam cleaning tools.  Then I remember, I have a steamvac.  I'll bet dollars to donuts it has steam cleaning tools on it!  Ugh.  I'll check... sometime.  That will work on more than just floors.  It's a brute of a tool, but all good.  Maybe not the first round, or even third, but, at some point, it could begin being used.  Perhaps sooner, if I think on it.  I am sure it can clean like no elbow grease can.  And... just steam.  It doesn't need cleaners, save on carpets.

I will crash tonight.  I will go easy tomorrow.  Easier?  If required.  A very good little pocket of work going on.  So very pleased.  Thanks be to God, and the glory to Him.  Amen.

Studying while I wake.

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Cleaning tips, to be honest.  The oven, cat messes, general home, bathroom, and carpet cleaning.  If they push vinegar and baking powder, I have serious doubts.  Vinegar is good for some things, but it doesn't really clean, or clear pipes, or... it has a small little section of use.  It does disinfect, or can.  It might even help with hard water marks, if there are better supplies, at least for more difficult spots.  But it doesn't degrease (for oven cleaning, or cat messes).  It doesn't take off soap scum.  It doesn't do a lot of things claimed.  Then again, you get the people who are selling other products, and again, try to have those used where they don't fit.

A bit of experience leads one to follow more closely what works and what doesn't.  And, avoid pure sales vids.  Some of them, when they aren't selling one thing directly, they are selling other things indirectly.  Still, if I think that works, I may see about alternatives.  Like... S.O.S. pads?  I haven't found an alternative yet, but may look for one.  I do see why and how it would work, in the oven, without tearing it up.  But I might consider and alternative if it is reasonable.  Though they are pretty cheap.

One group seems to be selling products, another a "free" life... which never really works.  It's like believing in nudist living, or living on sunshine and water.  That just doesn't work.  Selling, it's all about selling.  So it becomes a matter of looking for those who are selling what you are interested in buying.  Then trying it out.  There is one definite video I would certainly like to try.  Will it work?  Only one way to find out.

A wrapped baked meal.

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I had several forms of sausage.  In case I didn't care for the kielbasa.  With the sauerkraut gone, I decided to try the two types.  One is a Cajun type, the other didn't really have a name.  Unlike the kielbasa, these aren't cooked.  Anyway, I very coarsely chopped a potato, then chopped onion, garlic, a few carrots, and rolled it all into aluminum foil.  No spices, or fats.  I am hoping the sausages will tend the that, and the moisture released.

Nothing fancy, but different.  I wish I had more sauerkraut, though perhaps heated on a pot, then added at the table?  Still, a nice little meal.  Hungry now, though.  Strangely.  So, a few slices of munster and a sip of kefir.  So hungry, sometimes.  This time it seems to be bodily.  Oh, and a few smaller carrots, with peanut butter to dip in.  A decent snack.  A bit much, but I really am hungry, oddly.

The barrels were brought in.  It looks to be about 35 outside last I checked.  Sometimes, often, it gets cooler in the morning.  Though, often, just before sunrise.  The wind from the mountains, down then up, or some such.  Though, sometimes, it really does just get colder through the night.  Never can quite tell by any leads... necessarily.

After the meal, a shower, setting up more dishes, and perhaps getting the chicken going.  As well, I'll check the kefir which has been fermenting out of the fridge... probably topping that off with milk and putting it in to chill.  I think the jar of kefir I use now will need to be refilled and set out.  Everything requires something, and more, and just to keep dead even.