The rabbits are done.

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I was out there for most of it.  I didn't help.  His brother was there.  Nine rabbits, four larger (not giant) and five small.  All between, what, two and three years old?  Though the oldest two might have been slightly older.  I hope they are good for them.  They got better at the process, over time.  Though, a final one was difficult.  

Yea, it was difficult to see them go.  And, yet, I wanted to be there.  To see them off.  It seems only fair.

I did get the swamp cooler to finally get moisture going into the air.  Not sure it is continuing to do so.  I'll have to look around online.  I'm not getting much from the manual.  It has cooled to the low 70s outside, but is staying at about 82 in this front room, and the mid 70s elsewhere in the house.  Ugh.  A bit humid though too.  I opened the windows, and have a fan going down here too.  I'm trying something a little different.  It does feel good, when it is 90 or higher out.  But as it starts cooling, a different system will have to be managed.  Which I just did.

Something cool to drink, and plenty.  Then something to eat, and more to drink with it.  Just water, I think.  All good.  Hopefully dishes this evening?  I did reset the dishes.  But I have to clean the freezer top.  

I let them know I may be going, if I can find a good price.  They seemed surprised.  With him and his brother here, I asked if they might consider helping me move.  To consider a price and a time, so I have something to aim at.  Still, not sure if, or how much, I will be taking with me.  And how much will be just... going away.  If I get enough, a lot of it will just be going to the landfill.

Someone suggested a yard sale.  Have you seen how little they get for what they put out?  Not worth that much work for a few hundred dollars, hours in the hot sun, and quibbling over nickels.  If I am not taking it, I am breaking and tossing it.  People have gotten enough from me, for free.  Though, even if I stay, I may do another purge of items and such, soon.  But I can do that on my own.

Beside dishes, and food?  More work upstairs, and going through boxes and items down here... when... if... it cools off.  Cools off enough to get to things.  Later.

Cooling, again, and early.

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Whatever it got to, it is down to 87.  I am sure it got to at least 90, though I think I saw 93.  Higher?  If so, I didn't see it.  But, then, I may have been napping at the hottest.  That differs from day to day.  Surprised, again, that it is cooling this quickly, this early.  I'll gladly take it.  The crops are getting plenty of heat, an early cool shouldn't be a major issue.  Would I give up comfort for the idea of crops?  Absolutely... if it was in my hands.  A bit above my paygrade, though.

It seems as if the cull will go forward.  While I won't miss the daily and more chores, I will miss the critters.  Still, better to have them potentially go to someone's table, than just a shallow empty grave.  Well, assuming that is the gig.  I'll be asking some questions.  No need to pull  a lark.  All I'll say here.

A shower, and cleaned up.  Dressed, and ready to help... or leave him to it, as will be his preference.  I do have a few things to say and ask, however.  An offer, for a potential future, he may or may not wish to consider.  A job.  If things go the way they may be headed, a final job.

It is still staying cool in the house.  Somehow.  Just 82 up front, with just a fan going.  And 74 in the rest of the house, or cooler on further back.  Not sure how that is working out, but I'll gladly take it.  Later, I may try the swamp cooler, with the door shut.  Hmm... might turn it on now, let it run for a bit.  Though I would like to look up the instructions, or find the manual.  Though... hey, there it is.  What I was going to write is that it didn't have very scrutable instructions.  Mostly stupid warnings, like, don't turn it on in a pool, and other lib union writer stupid shit.

Well... on to looking around the web.  I keep hoping Ecuador will drop the pcr test requirement.  I have heard that they can give the jab through that test, and wouldn't put it past the medical community of today to do that.  They have lost all trust.  They have become, probably, willfully genocidal.  I wondered why they were so entrenched in getting white doctors to hate white patients.  Now... I... get it.  They won't graduate without that hatred.  Not currently.  Probably not for the last forty to fifty years.  Then again, in truth, they hate everybody.  They are only allowed to express it against whites.  Or... those who even look white.  Or is that just another excuse to, sort of, hate everybody?  Genocidal.

Cambodia, Vietnam, and Taiwan are open.  But at least one of those is in the sights of another dictatorial regime.  Though, to be fair, Russia is more the target of that, than the Ukraine is.  *wink*  Best believe it.  Hard to be on the side of a tyrant.  But when tyrant faces tyranny, where to go with sympathies?  The dogs in the way... that's were.  The little people, animals, and such.  Animal versus animal, otherwise.

Well?  On to looking over thoughts and notions in the world.  Later.

Midafternoon, is it?

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13:58.  93 outside, 80 here, 74 in the main and near where I was sleeping, 70 in the main part of upstairs.  Woke easily.  Actually because I was too cool, with a fan on me upstairs.  Again, just two packages from Amazon.  They seem to grab them randomly?  Perhaps just sorting as they put things on the truck, so somewhat chaotically?  If they are doing this to everyone, do they have enough room for the packages?  Perhaps people have nearly stopped ordering?  I... can't be sure.

A cup of fatted coffee, to officially begin my day.  While getting up earlier was a false start, it did get the house closed down.  And, yes, if does feel better.  It would be hotter and even drier... being 25% humid in here currently.  It would be "Lo", if I hadn't closed up.  My feet were burning, still do, but not nearly as bad at 80.

Not just daydreams, it turns out.  Of a darkness that is coming.  Not sure they can keep the gate open long enough for it to engage.  When I say darkness, not necessarily a single entity or will, but acting on a single will.  Not sure it is the one most would think, as if it matters.  Talk about a house out of order, though, and then.

The funny thing is, if they happen to allow it in, or out, it... won't due.  It won't win.  It will only return things to the way things were, in better times, the quicker and surer.  It... amazes me how resistant men really are.  For all the faults, there is still something to them.  Something very potent.  I suppose you don't remember, when Lenin would strip a chicken of it's feathers, alive, then toss it some food (for the press, they knew these things).  Then offer it some food and the chicken would still come to the hand that fed it.  He likened that to men.  And, he was wrong then, and they are wrong now.  You aren't dealing with a chicken, with men.  You are dealing with one of the most streamlined apex predators the world, universe, has ever faced.  It is so good, that much of man's capacity is hidden from itself, behind a veil of civility so powerful that people like Lenin, for a while, are allowed to continue to exist.  Until he isn't.  

Though, with people like Stalin and Lenin and the others?  They were artificially buoyed, protected, funded, from the outside.  By the richest men of the West.  Experiments.  But, when a people is corrupt, it is far easier to corrupt the leadership of those people.  And they were corrupt.  It looks like it is... other nations' turn at that, or... we will see.

Oh, I could have a few pecans and such.  Nice little bits to have with coffee, get some sort of food in.  I'll have a few thicker chops, warmed, with veggies, for supper.  Best get a shower soon, too.  Later.

Packages...

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It looks like UPS is only delivering a few packages a day.  They have had some packages for two days now.  It is like they are throttling deliveries.  Fuel is being rationed, give or take.  So packages are only being delivered by one driver?  Have they gutted their workforce, as well?  Maybe they only have one driver for this area?  Or is it warehouse workers they have eliminated?  Both?  They are backed up on a bunch of packages.

Oh, I get it.  Fuel.  I am surprised they are still running.  I suppose, every day is a matter of financial balance, survival.  How many can you cut, in order to afford fuel, to deliver some of what you are required to deliver, at a certain price.  Are they losing money currently?  I'd almost bet they have to be.  But passing on all costs would... not quite be possible.  They would cease to be used.  Though if they can't do it, no one else can.  Everyone else is more expensive and far less efficient.

They keep saying the economy is hot.  I keep thinking, sure, like when the wheels have come off, and it is riding on the rims, and at a higher speed than what it should be even with wheels?  Something like that.  We aren't going into the ditch.  We are going into the ditch, off the cliff, on fire on the way down.  Exploding when we hit, with every other vehicle (country) in the world either right before or right after us.  There... are no breaks.  They wouldn't use them if they had them.  And it isn't a local thing.  China is just trying to stop and stay in the ditch.  Trying to avoid the cliff.  But... I think they are already over the edge.  They just don't realize it yet.  Russia might make it, but more because, on the way over the cliff, the rest of the world is shooting their rims off.  With enemies like that, who needs... friends?  Bwahahahaha.  Seriously.  I have to wonder if Creepy Joe sold Russia some of our oil too.  At a discount.  Which he sold to China or India at a premium?  Enemies like that... and you thought Trump was a tool?  Who put sanctions on China?  Who is taking them off?  Hahaha.

Anyway.  Back to bed?  Not quite yet.  Can't... quite get there.  Working on it.  Later.

Realizations.

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Can't be sure what the problems are.  But... no worries.  Unwelcome.  I hope an offer does come through.  It is well past time I be on my way.  Just... something I realized today, about this and that.  A punch in the gut.  But... okay.  Never you go worry, or consider.  I just... realized some things.  One can hope for a reprieve.  But that just may not happen.  I may be stuck in my humility.  I will... pray... for release.  If you wish to be kind, pray for that in my regards as well?  When I ask for something, I ask that whatever I wish, be so only if it is His wish as well.  Priorities.

I didn't go down until 04:00.  I woke, for... some reason... no reason? at 07:00.  I wanted to go back to sleep.  But, realized, if I did, the house would turn into an inferno before long.  So, I got up and shut everything down, capturing the 70 temps I had managed to pull in.  It had been as low as 48, at about when I went to bed?  Probably more like midnight, last I checked?  Or some time between those numbers?  But, it was at least down to 48.  Strange, very strange for deep summer, for it to get cooler.  Even 52 is unusual, but has been fairly normal, or frequent enough to be noted.  Still, won't complain.

I keep reading I am living in a heat dome.  The thing is supposed to include my area.  I assure you, it doesn't.  We are not only not hotter than usual, we are subnormal, by five to ten, and more, degrees... at least right here where I live.  I check the temps, have for years.  Even if it is rough, at 90, it is usually rougher still, by much.  And it doesn't cool this much.  Last summer, the house didn't cool to below 75 this time of year?  I would lay wages that was more usual if not always the case?  And it took two ac's to get some cooling upstairs.  Though I held up a bit better, last year, for the first time, or second summer?  But did break down toward the middle of this month?  Something like that.

I keep dreaming of strange things.  While I don't believe the end of the world is here, I keep dreaming of bits of that.  Though, strangely, the dreams are more an assurance that the end is not nigh, than that it is, oddly.  But... part of the end are nigh?  Something like that.  People may end up wishing that the end was here.  There are times which are worse than the end.  For a time.

Have you ever seen a wound, on a man?  A broken limb, or finger?  Torn parts?  And you empathize to deeply you hurt for him?  You... hurt with him?  But you have to pull back, for the ferociousness of the empathy?  Well, imagine doing that with billions.  You have no idea.  Strangely, as the wounded man, who has made it through, and is recovering, the... memory of the pain is fading, and optimism has filled his heart.  I saw that part too.  Is it just drugs the body makes, to get one through the worst of life, and allow survival or it's potential after terrible wounding?  Or is it some gift from God that allows you to carry on after?  Maybe both?  God has seen the worst, chosen not just what is divine, but to be it.  He has tamed His own... what would pass for wounds... fears.  He just, now, Is.  I guess that is what we are called, in part, to become.  It is in us, even in the wounded.

I actually see this in the Cambodians.  I won't tell you why, but I saw it clearly.  Or... was that a mistake?  I don't think so.  Just... something from... another dream, of another dark tomorrow... one that has already been.  I... shouldn't write these things.  You don't understand.  I don't want to explain.  Not awake enough to detangle myself from some of these things, find distance to report perspective anyway, for the moment.

Back to bed?  I don't know.  Maybe, or soon.  Chilly!  It's only 72, in a t and skivvies.  With a fan going.  Strange.  Anyway... later or more later that that.

I have enjoyed some of the coolness.

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On to bed, a bit earlier.  I am trying to craft my days and nights so that I get a bit of day and a bit of night, a bit of the cool and a bit of the bitter heat.  The swamp cooler is helping, a bit.  Though I would like to figure it out.  I think there is somethings I don't quite have right.  It is better, but I think it could be a lot better?  I think so.  I'll... look for the manual, tomorrow.  Review it.

I have enjoyed the evening, and day too.  It was a bit toasty, even with the swamp cooler.  Just not as bad as it has been.  Plus, I got some nice work upstairs.  Nothing fancy.  I didn't get to the dishes.  But... you know... one thing at a time.  And, in this heat, there are just more limits to my already limited capacities, abilities, function.  Chores, too, were done.  And I got laundry collected and down.  Oh, and medicine set up.

Plus, I have been eating a bit better.  And keeping up on Sassy and her needs and wants.  Nothing fancy.  But it is high summer.  Not bad.  Actually, fairly good.  It is 03:18.  I'll call it a night, go on to bed, and try to be up around... say... noon to 15:00?  Give or take.  The heat may wake me earlier, closer to 13:00 or even eleven.  But, maybe not.

God bless, prayers, warm thoughts, and goodnight.  Or... good morning.

Cooling, if not swiftly.

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I have opened the place up.  And checked the temp outside, which is 56.  Not all that cool, and, yet, cooler than July often is.  Or, in this area, or for as long as I have been living here.  Dry, still.  But, it is usually dry.  And should stay that way into August, when the monsoon type season could begin.  Though, sometimes, there is nothing much until September or October.  Then again, winters have been hit or miss, if this year seemed much more on than off.

I'm beginning to wonder if water is purposefully being sent to California, so that they can flush it out to see.  How many, even in this state, would do what they were ordered to do, knowing what that would mean to many people?  Yes, I... do wonder if that isn't exactly what is happening.  Is there a reason?  Is that reason actually true?  Or is it more like what the 'vax is really about, for that is not a vaccine.  They have absolutely admitted it.  It doesn't stop the recipient from getting the disease, it doesn't stop them from spreading it, and it doesn't even make the conditions less severe.  Further, the side effects are anywhere from debilitating to fatal in a significant portion of the recipients.  So, I have reasons to not believe the water dumps are... legitimate.  Now they have begun emptying the Flaming Gorge.

I wonder how many people are going to die for those things?  

Though, watching the former Japanese PM get shot, Boris Johnson go away, the Georgia genocide idol get partially destroyed (by the way... why was that on cctv, apparently directly to an leo station?), and some other odd doings.  Connected?  Even I doubt this.  Maybe Abe and the Georgia thing... maybe.  But Boris?  That was just being a compromised twit who they had no further need.  He didn't just quit, he was told to quit, and did.  He was their toy, and they were finished with him, for whatever reason.  

They wouldn't have shot Abe, they would have just had him stop giving speeches, or taken the opportunity away.  They... generally don't murder their own, or... not like that.  And, with the clot shot, they can pretty much kill anyone who has taken that shot, in just about any way they want, and could just say... without saying... that it was the vax.  Even though he probably took saline.  Some of the elites are in the club, just not all of them, it seems.

Yea.  It's getting dark out there.  And out there is... just... right... out there.  It isn't far.  There isn't a place that is... good... though.  If I go, this will end.  A lot of things will change.  I'll leave folks to whatever peace they may know as the darkness descends.  If you were a part of it, it will come for you.  It will eat you, destroy you.  It owns you.  And, it hates you more for you having given it power over you than you will ever understand.  It didn't give you options.  It merely let you sell yourself out, as some sort of proof that you are inferior.  It is jealous of the love God has for you, and let you surrender that for whatever you thought you were getting.  It also gave you nothing, only took... if... you would stop to look, understand, see.  Though rain will fall on all houses, equally.  It's just that the man who continues to love God will die well?  Perhaps.

This will get ugly before it gets better.  There isn't... really... a place to go.  And, yet, I may look... if the opportunity arises.  Or, I'll just wait here, with the rest.  So be it.

As I thought.

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No dice on the home offers, most likely.  If the first one out of the park wasn't even in the ballpark.  It was less than even the V.A. quote.  I just thanked them for their time, and sent them back on down to little-league.  Perhaps someone will accept their lowball.  Still, now I have some idea about what I am looking at.  At least I won't have to figure out where to go, or what to do.

And, rabbits.  There is some conversation going on.  Picky about sales.  Which is fine.  I added information, my intentions, and such.  At least for the Americans.  I'll contact the other rabbiteer tomorrow.  I'm not in good condition to mess with that this afternoon.  Really, I am not picky about breeds.  The American might be slightly less interesting, in some ways.  But more interesting in other ways.

As a rare breed, part of the program is to increase their numbers, but keep them pure, whole, without wrongbreeding them.  And, they are easier rabbits to tend, generally milder and easier to handle.  Which, this time, if I get younger ones, I will get them used to handling immediately and well.  Whichever breed it is.  Assuming some surprise offer on the house doesn't come through.  But with one down, and three to go, I... have doubts.  Then again, the one quoted at $350k is still... sniffing around.  I just don't think they are legit, at this point.  Trying to get freebies from scared... well... rabbits.  Or people overextended, hoping for a bit of air, room to breath, a way out.  I... am quite comfortable, give or take.  I'm looking for more comfort, not a nickel and a pat on the head.

Bit by bit, things will work out, I guess.  Oh... the swamp cooler is helping.  It's not exactly great, but it is better than what it was, slightly.  And definitely better than just opening up the place without anything else.  Not exactly superior, just slightly better than the better of the other two options.  Though, maybe, I'll bring it in.  See if that helps.  Just... only fill it outside.  The major problem with that is lifting the thing, without breaking or tipping it, the four to six to ten inches over the entryway.  It's plastic, flimsy, and with weight... four inches... and... easy enough.  A slight spill, but only outside.  And, yes... that is... a bit more helpful.  I may close the front door, to just a crack open, see if that helps... after trying this with the front door more fully open.  Ugh.  At least I have the energy, today, from enjoy some of the cool last night, to do things.

Really, much better.  all around.  But, if I could get this cooler still, in here, or even really cool, I might be able to get to more work.  Which... is all I want.  Whether I am going or staying, I'd like to clear the house out, clean it up, maybe paint the walls.  Things I have wanted to do, just haven't quite been able to do.  Go, leave, doesn't matter.  I like to work, tinker, improve my lot and the lot of the world around me.  It's... my job.  

The microgreens are coming along.  My only problem is waiting!  Still, a pinch, now and again, is tasty.  Two trays.  One of alfalfa, one of broccoli I think.  A few days going, a few days to wait.  I'll add another tray tomorrow.  The thing is to remember to pour the bottom catchment tray over the lot enough.  Three, maybe five, times a day.  They haven't died, so I must be doing it enough.  Then to green them, when they get near done, and then store them.  Tasty little bits, to be sure.  

Later.

Not bad.

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Chores.  I had food still, was thinking it was Wednesday.  When sleep gets twisted, days get off.  Anyway, they were fed.  They will die in a better state of comfort, if their bellies will be fuller.  Or... if it works.  Tomorrow afternoon, I am told.  So, okay.  Yes.  I will be there, when they are dispatched.  And, I will help as I may.  Just, no actual cleaning or killing.  But I will lend a hand, after they are killed.  Washing them, icing them, bagging them.  It's a bit of a chore.  I will help, if that is desired.

More contacts about the house.  I think there are... five... groups/people... now looking over the place.  No offer, as of yet.  Just talk.  There may end up being no offer.  Who knows.  Until I see or hear something, it's all fifth grade flirting.  All eyes, no ass.  All I'm saying.  Well, for most of you.  *grins*  Just saying, generally, not specifically.  Oh hush, you would of if you thought you could have.  I just did.  And well before then.

I did get the chores done in a rather quick time.  It was 90 out, didn't want to linger.  While it is 82 in here, currently, that is better.  The rest of the house is still in the 70s.  Upstairs was 70/74, until I went up and started working.  Then it went to 72/76 when I was wrapping things up.  I have nearly cleared the floor.  Got some other things organized.  I have clean clothes to sort and store more rightly,  Vacuuming and powdering, more boxes to go through, again.  This time, probably, a lot more to go.  But it is coming together.

As I wearied, I put vitamins in the medicine sets.  That was missing, had to be ordered.  Yes, those things really help.  Otherwise my feet and legs cramp, even on just two water pills a day.  I will probably need to get this medicine dispenser, in use, up, and vitamined, soon.  Ugh.

Next?  A bit of tinkering on here.  Maybe the boxes out to the suv... I did break them and the stuffing down already.  I also brought a bunch of laundry down.  Bunch?  Well, it was an armful, if really not even a load.  And it's mixed... cotton, synth, wool.  So it won't even make a real single load.  Maybe there is enough else around to potentially make a load, but I won't bother with it today.

A shower, shortly?  I'd like to wait for it to begin cooling.  Or... cooling enough that opening up would actually begin to help.  Stuffy in here, but much hotter out there.  Or, was.  It's coming down already?  Crazy.  Unusual.  But it is down to 86 from at least 90... 92?  I know it got to 90, perhaps a bit higher.  I could try to evap cooler, though, too?  Sure, at this point I am not sure how much I have to lose.  Ugh.

Hmm... maybe that is helpful?  I'll know more, in a bit.  Currently, temp near the machine is 82, humidity is 27%.  It is 18:39.  I'll... know soon enough.  Later.

Up.

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Well?  Okay.  Closing the house up keeps it cooler.  Oh, this front room is 79.  But it would be 88 to 90 otherwise.  And, the rest of the house?  It is at 74.  But it was 74 up, near me.  Though with the fans and ac, it was only 70 out in the main.  I was sleeping hot.  Dreaming, most likely, but I don't remember.  It is 90, outside, and blowing like the devil.  Or at least gusting?  No, I think both.  From the south, which means it's a hot wind.  Bleh.  At least by the time it reaches here, water has been rung out of it.

Two texts, about the house.  A new potential buyer.  And the one I had thought I chased off with my offer.  An email address for the one given the quote, and a "I'm all ears, no promises.  Join the group at your leisure".  We'll see.  I have, if I am to believe this, four groups chasing the house.  And, my biggest number didn't, immediately, chase off the first.  Almost spooky.  If I can get another hundred grand out of the deal, or two, I... wouldn't... exactly... cry.  I doubt it.  But, nothing even close to a number back.  As is, I'm just having fun with it.  Like a kid throwing cans between two bum can collectors.  Yes, I... was a bad boy.  It was a family hobby.  Back when aluminum went sky high, under Carter.  We didn't toss many, that was our extras money too.  But, a few, on a dull day.  *grins*  The days... good, bad, but... real.  

I'm just tossing cans, but am not out anything save heartburn if I were so inclined.  Since I'm a non-believer, it doesn't hurt me at all.  More the shitting and grinning side of things.  I can't lose.  Either I have a house with a very reasonable buy-in price, or they pay me a lot to leave my comfy little rocky crevice for a tour of the world.  I don't even have to ask a misses, and mom just doesn't get a say, or brother, or...  People have made their choices.  All good.  Cool.  There is no way they would afford to out me, though.  But, if they do, that's not on me.  Part of the process will be an allowance to stay here until September, October, maybe January.  If... that would be a rough time to get out.  Though, if they pay, I could get the house empty by then?  Not sure if Pods, or something like that, would ship to foreign ports?  That would be really handy.  Just a tiny thing, won't be traveling heavy, or fast.

Hmm... best get a passport arranged.  Be ready, whatever.

Today?  Chores.  Putting away packages that arrived, and tearing down those boxes... even getting the boxes into the suv for my next trip to town.  There is still some room.  But, I don't really want to do much work else, until it cools.  Oh, but after a chores and packages, perhaps a shower, and work upstairs on the floor, in the cool up there?  Yeah.  That would be good.

I did order flannel, and a pajama pattern.  If I probably need at least waistband stretch.  Though I have learned options, so I may not need as much... just do the waist sides, not the whole thing.  As well, I have been working on crotch gussets.  Well, and underarm gussets.  I like custom fit, know what I have tried and like.  The rest of the trick is sorting good material from bad, good technique from bad, good notions and secondary products from bad... it... will take time.

For example, I ordered, initially, butcher paper... for patterning.  Which, was the best I saw.  But, in reading and reviewing video, I saw the idea of using doctor table tissue paper.  Went looking.  That... is a sweet deal, comparatively.  Though, not sure if it will hold up well enough.  I ordered both, will compare.  But... if the doctor table stuff works?  You get twelve rolls, if a third shorter but a sixth wider, for the price of one roll of butcher paper.  And, I would guess, it is transparent... will be easier for some things.  And will be lighter, as long as it isn't too light.  Have to learn, a bit at a time.  Then again, if it is too light, initially, I'll work with the butcher paper.  Perhaps, with practice, I will gain a lighter, defter, hand, and be able to use the table paper.  The world gifts those who trial be error.  Amen.

Anyway... up to 81, just this bit.  But, that is fine.  I'll shut it all down, go on up.  Later, if I wear out up there, and it's still hot down here, I'll set up the swamp cooler.  Have a good day.

All done.

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Everything is buttoned up.  I do need to get the meats packaged and put away.  Other than that, all good.  I am sure hoping the downstairs stays cooler.  But I am guessing it won't.  It will, most likely, when I wake, be 75 or higher in the main, and probably a good deal hotter in this front room.  I would guess 83?  Then again, it'll be later in the day when I wake.

Going to bed at 08:55... well... make it 09:30, with stowing and storing the meats, brushing teeth, medicine, and clearing litter boxes... so lets say 10:00 to bed... then waking, after eight hours of sleep?  Nine?  Well go with nine.  Nine hours down would mean 19:00... seven pm to most folk.  Meh... that will work.  Anyway, I best get going so as to get done.  Goodnight, now, for certain.

Well... there is that.

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The chops are all cooked, the thin ones where eating.  The thick ones are cooling, as is the corned beef.  The beef "chuck" roast is finishing, with the vents closed.  I'll probably have a sampling of that before bedtime.  Not the bigger chops, already had some, if thinner ones, of those.  Not the corned beef, for it was only seared, not cooked through.  But, a bit of warm beef, even if it really isn't chuck, I'll... have me a slice or two, if thin, of that.

The swamp cooler was filled.  But, again, glad I did that outside.  As I feared, the float valve didn't work.  Too much pressure from the water line?  Or just a typical, modern, poorly built, designed, or else system?  It never stopped filling and was running right on until well after it was full.  Still, it is full.  When, eventually, I wake, and if it is blistering hot again, I'll try it.

Oh, and while it is up to 56 (unless the grill bumped that, it's close enough, potentially), it is down into the 70 to 71 range indoors, down here.  When I finish the roast, I will close the last two windows, and door... soon, or when I go to bed, but certainly before it begins warming up from the outside.  I'll see if that works better or not.  Just as likely, it will be just as hot either way.  Though, perhaps this morning is cooler than yesterday?  I certainly used the fan to very good success.  I don't think it dropped to below 75 yesterday?  Something like that.  Curious to see if this works better than that.  And, very curious to see about the swamp cooler, either way.

I'll be ready for bed, soon.  I am absolutely pleased that I took a nap, and was able to get up and get back to doing things again.  I really like to work, but I can't... if it is too hot, or too cold, or I'm not on medicines, or if I am restarting them.  Gah!  I'll... keep trying though.  I did try, and succeed, last night.  Watering the lawn tonight.  Cleaning the upstairs if I wake when it is still too warm, until I am willing to give the swamp cooler a chance.  Dishes, if possible, either if the swamp cooler allows it, or later again.

Rabbits, house sale potential, things to do, possibly places to go, so many things possible, many of them contradictory.  Or... so it seems.  Life is odd that way.  Good morning, and, very probably, goodnight.  

Still 52, last time I looked.

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Just a few minutes ago, so should still be good.  I have the swamp cooler filling.  Seeing if the hose connection will stop when it is supposed to stop.  Glad I did it outside.  The connections blew off, and water went spewing everywhere.  No problem, being outside.  The sidewalk got cleaned, and wetted.  All good.

As well, I have the grill heating, to do some cooking this morning while it is cool.  Very nice, really.  I did put on thicker pj bottoms.  Meant to add socks.  But... got going and so, going I am.  I'll grill a roast and two packs of chops, one thin, one medium.  As well, I will toast the outside of the corned beef.  Give it some flavor, let it cool, then put it up until I can steam it... probably tomorrow morning, later this evening, when it is cool again.  I have too many other things going to mess with that tonight... this morning.

Whatever else, when this finishes, good or ill, filling... the swamp cooler... I'll get the sprinklers set up.  I think it is too late for them to run?  I'll wait until tonight, just to make sure.  I thought it was until six, or maybe eight, or ten?  And, then, after 18:00?  I'll... check... with someone today.  And, tonight, will run it.  But it will be set up to run.  All I will have to do is turn it on, and time it.  I'll have to hit front, side, and back.  And, do it again in a few days.  Twice a week, last I heard.  Okay.

After I get food finished, and these other things done, I can go on to sleep if need be.  Or... just enjoy the cool until it is time to sleep.  Not sure I can sleep quite yet.  But, maybe, when those things are done... maybe.  I am curious to see if the swam cooler really will help.  Either leave it out on the porch, blowing in, or bring it just in.  Leaving the door open actually is how it is recommended.  It needs a place for all the moisture to be lured out?  Something.  Later.

So very nice.

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It is 52 outside, as I had hoped.  Not cooler, if that is probably good?  With the fan?  Initially I had it pointed out, trying to draw air in.  But that just wasn't working.  Or... I... didn't feel it.  So I turned it to pull air in.  The odd thing is, the curtain, between the front room here, where the air is blowing into, is also blowing in, as if the house is breathing into this room.  With the front door open.

I don't know.  Perhaps that is precisely how it is supposed to work.  But... it just seems like that isn't how it should be going.  I would have thought, with increased air pressure, from the fan blowing in from the door, that the air would blow through the rest of the house... not the other way around.

Uhrm, wait.  Actually?  I turned it to blow out!  That's... had to turn and look.  Okay, then that makes sense.  Never mind.  Come to think of it, that is what I had in mind.  I had thought that having it blow in would work, but it didn't.  Blowing out works very well.  Gah!

Oh, but I am sure enjoying the cool of the night.  I may just have to do nights, during the summer.  At least, without central air or a larger ag for downstairs... or maybe the swamp cooler.  Which I still haven't set up.  Bleh.  Actually, it is getting cool enough that I may turn off the fan.  Or go on to a nap, then try to wake in the morning?  I really don't know.  Hmm, but I would like to grill meat for the weak, set up the sprinklers and maybe let them run for a bit, and... while doing that, set up the swamp cooler?  It has a reservoir that needs filled.  It might even have a float valve, and be able to be hooked up to a hose, to be filled automatically.  Though... I'm... not sure I really like that idea.  I don't mind having it hooked up, I just don't want the line active.  I don't trust "automation".  Great when it works, but so rarely does it work, or for long, or well.

Yes, I could get the grill going, then run hoses.  Though, actually, I'll want to wear something warmer than shorts, a t, and flipflops.  Getting chilly out there, at least after running 90 earlier.  Meh.  Yeah, I'll get to it.  It is much easier to work in the cool than the high heat, if not as good as working in the 60 to 70 range.  But I'll take what I can get, for the moment.  Good morning, or late night, or whatever it is you are pulling.  I'm not sure where I am in my schedule, as that seems to be changing.  Later, though, most likely.

Oh... one of the people I emailed, regarding rabbits, did respond.  He no longer raises Californians or New Zealands, just Americans.  But he will be speaking with a woman who does raise those other breeds today.  Says she is picky about who she sells too.  Fair enough.  I gave him some background information, and my experience with rabbits.  That might help, or... not.  Never can tell.  Though I did ask about Americans.  A rarer, rarified, breed, so maybe beyond what I am willing to pay.  And, there  is the thing about getting several from various lines.  Three would be preferred, three different lines.  Still, thought to ask.

Yea, later.  Unless I crash.  :p

A nice nap.

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Can't be sure how long I was up there, when I went, or how long I slept.  I turned the ac on the higher setting, though, before sleep.  And, even with that, it was 76 when I woke.  Then again, it takes it a while to cool down.  By morning it will be 72.  And, should I leave the ac alone, it will stay there, or maybe go on down to 70.  It amazes me how well it is cooling this year.

Ah, right.  It is only getting to 90.  That's why.  In most of the years past, it would have been hitting 90 by Late may, and perhaps sometimes before that.  But, by July, our usually hottest month, it would be 95 on cooler days, into the 100s from time to time, and maybe, once or twice, down to 88.  But it would also be sunny every day.  Though, so far, this month, it has been sunny every day.

This isn't just a shorter hot season, it is milder.  Not by a huge amount, but by enough that the ac seemed to work better.  It isn't.  It is just having less heat with which to content.  It is still 83 in this front room, 80 in the rest of the house currently, and 59 outside.  I had a fan going, in the back areas.  But that didn't seem to be doing much.  So I moved it to the front door, which is cracked open a bit.  Opened more, now.  Still, that doesn't seem to be doing much.

With a rest in there, I am hoping to grill the meats tonight.  Maybe have a meal of some of it.  But most of it will be put up for the week.  IF I can get to cooking.  It needs to cool a bit more first.  Inside.  Though more cooling outside wouldn't be a bad thing.  And, it probably will... a few or a even a few more degrees.  Doubt it it will hit the 40's, could get to 55, 52?  Maybe.

Later.

A bit more, back and forth.

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Well, from the texting potential buyer.  Nothing from the other potential buyer.  At... least he enjoyed the humor... two front teeth.  If you are going to ask them to cry, help them grin about it.  No answer, of course.  Having had it inspected, to be ready for a V.A. remortgage recently, helps.  As does having had a insect inspection.  Especially since the house was, at least technically, cleared from damage (which the V.A. would have required to be repaired for the loan to go through).

Oh, it's... difficult.  It's crazy, asking for that much money.  Just waiting for an answer or counteroffer.  I hate negotiating.  But... that's... how it goes.  I would like to hear from the other potential buyer, however.  I don't think they would overbid my asking, but who knows in these crazy times.  I'd... definitely like to see who is most interested.

Anyone else feel like they are tempting fate?  I do, I do.

Too hot.  It looks like things are done for the day.  So, I'll... go up, cool off, rest or maybe tinker, at the machine or on the floor.  Or... just... nap.  Ugh.  Though a bit surprised.  Received one package, but was supposed to be receiving two more.  Plus some other which were in.  I guess they just... do as they please, these days.  Probably being replaced with lower waged workers, when they are replaced at all.  They may just not have the work, at the wages they are willing to pay?  It's... going tits up.  Wish to hell that was half as sexy as it sounds.

Well... on to upstairs.  I may make a vinegar, electrolyte, salt drink... dry as a desert bone.  Need something, to wet the whistle.  Choo, choo?  Yea.  Later.

Never can tell.

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One of those interested in the house is very intermittent.  Must just be buying agents, without any real skin in the game.  I let that go, until today.  But, only then after getting a call from someone else who sounds interested in the house.  I let the first potential buyer know that there is competition.  That... only works in my favor, assuming there was actual interest.

Haven't heard back from the one, but I just sent the text.  The other potential buyer is a caller.  I received a message.  They can't call through, unless I have them listed.  Besides, I was asleep this morning so wouldn't have got it.  He has, temporarily, been added.

Ah, he did contact me back.  Must have just lost track.  He is still interested.  So, I have to potential buyers.  And, these are the ones who will pay the most.  Not that they will offer enough.  But... will have to wait and see.  It's a spooky thing.  And, again, what to do with the money?  Cash?  Is being burned down.  Stocks?  Hit peak and are going down.  Short?  Yea, that... happens on "their" schedule.  BTC?  Yea, no.  If that were truly a free, worthwhile, economic tool, it wouldn't follow stocks.  Rigged, and erroneous.  Land?  PM's?  Everything potential to buy into is rigged, up or down.  And cash is queer queen, eating anyone alive who tries to hold more than just enough for a potential fast escape if the ship capsizes in a hurry.

Buying foreign property is not wise either.  Especially after what just happened with covid.  There is no safe place to put money, no good storage, no secure place to make money on money.  It's all going down.

He texted a price request.  I told him $350,000, and two front teeth if it is Christmas.  *grins*  Oh, I have great doubts.  But... there, it is out.  It's a... start.  Ugh.  I hate this part of things, but... there it is.  Anyway... Later.

Awake, finally.

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No false wakes, starts, or else.  Something, sounds, outside, did wake me.  Through the morning.  I didn't get to bed until nearly six.  Just... couldn't sleep.  The heat has gotten to me.  It is stretching my day out.  Not a lot I can do about it.  Even so, I can try to work through it.  I haven't been doing much lately, though.  The stretch is difficult to work through... or in.

While coming down this morning, I turned the ac to medium.  Which should make working upstairs easier, not so cold.  I would like to get back up there, and begin working on the floor again.  I did, though, get some of that done, cleared the other table, made room for the new table, and get the sewing machine set up and all else going.  So... you know, I guess it isn't that I haven't worked.

But, when I got that going, I have been spending more of my available time tinkering with stitches, and sorting that, threading and filling bobbins.  I am not exactly sure I have figured out why my bobbin is winding unevenly.  Perhaps I need to put it on a lower speed?  That was one suggestion.  Though others don't seem to have that problem.  Or, I need to floss the thread through the pivot point, or make sure where it is at that point?  I have researched, I just haven't tried to apply the research yet.  Today.

As well, I would like to get the freezer cleared off.  Cleaned.  Then start back with dishes.  Reset those, and then get another load going... after finishing the first set, and getting a shower in.  And, finally, chores as well today.  Actually... chores are done.  The magic of the internet.

But the rest of it will have to be done.  It is 90 outside, 87 in here, up front, 83 in the rest of the house.  But I am leaving everything open.  I really would like to get up early, and close things down while it is cooler.  Though, in truth, it doesn't get all that much cooler.  I may be doing the sour grapes thing, though, since my days and nights are off.  Though, whatever else, I think this front room will always be hot.  If I could just get the computer into... well... part of why it is hot is because of the electrical usage, part of it is because of me, only part of it is from the sun pounding on it.  Moving the computer would just heat up some other area.  Excepting if I could get it upstairs.  But I'm not sure that is possible.  Getting the internet cables in would be a trick.  Hmm... perhaps a hole one of the window frames, conduit through, and sealing that?  But not so sealed it can't be replaced if needed?  I don't know how to splice, that would have to be a tech.  But... that might be worth it?  If... anything I am suggesting is possible?  Oh... I know someone who might know.

The meats are thawed.  So I put them in the fridge.  I need to cook them today, more this evening.  I may just grill all, save the corned beef.  Though, getting it flame licked a bit, instead of pan browning, would work.  Yes, I could cook it all, for the week, that worked well with the roast last week, and chicken.

It is 90 outside, which isn't too terrible for this time of year.  If... it is starting to wear on me.  72/74 upstairs, though it will warm with the ac on a lower setting.  Things to do, places to go?  But it is so hot!  Ugh.  I don't know.  Soon.  Not today, but soon.  Maybe.  Perhaps next Monday?  Or early next week anyway.  Later.

A late lunch, then sewing.

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I didn't do much, for sewing.  But I did work with the circular button hole.

Hmm. it seems to only be one side.  What can be adjusted is how much thread is put out.  I can adjust how thickly the threading is around the center.  But, it doesn't make a complete circle.  It makes half a circle.  You have to manually flip the cloth being stitched?  Well, okay.  So far, only so-so.  I have learned to make sure the needle is down, when turning.  Though, with a little practice, I was able to get a full circle without that.  I just had to be much more careful.

And, the hole is better than I would generally want on a pack, save maybe in a few situations.  But, even then, it would be a bit sloppy.  The regular button holes can be adjusted, in size.  And have to be cut anyway, so there is even more flexibility as to size.  I will practice with those.  Further, I think the machine will do the whole process.  I won't need to flip, or adjust things.  I think.  So, that is probably what I would use to add compression lines in various gear.  I had just hoped to make clean, smaller, circles.  Live and learn.

I texted about getting the rabbits tended.  Though just as I was finishing up upstairs.  I can hope to hear back, and more get that done, soon.  Running out of opened feed.  If I can get them gone, I'll probably get a few bags of feed, each month, until I get new rabbits.  To have feed for six or eight months, just replacing it when it is more affordable?  Or skipping adding more until it is gone.  If it gets to be too much, I may have to get rid of the rabbits... unless they put out well.  If I could get even three kits to full grown size on the cost of a bag, that would be well worth it.  As is, it is a total loss.  But... I did learn some things.

I did have to turn the ac to the coldest setting while up there.  It had risen to 77, and was going up more with me there.  It got back down to 75 by the time I left, and that with me up there.  But... just.

Actually, there are some other things.  The grill connection, and... something else?  Bleh.  It's rough out there, though.  To be honest, while 88 is pretty good, here.  It is brutal to be in.  And, in much of the valley, it is hotter.  At the base of the mountains, probably on either side, it is hotter.  Something about how the sun reflects right close, from the mountains.  So the areas right up to it get baked extra hot.  I wouldn't want to be out.  Just doing chores is quite enough.  Still, free food?  If food isn't greatly considered at some times, certainly less than other times.

I had hoped to get to more work, but it just isn't going to happen.  It has gotten too hot for me to do much work.  And, yet, going up to the cool?  I can work for a bit, then begin stumbling, even there, one way or the other.  I'll get medicine, then another bit to eat... the last of the chicken drumsticks.  Oh, best get meat out thawing.  Perhaps watch a show, or look for one to watch, while I eat.  Then go take a nap, or just go to bed.

If I can wake, when it is cooler, I will try to work on dishes, get the swamp cooler going, and set up the sprinklers set up too.  The grass is getting rather... rough.

Friday, I am told.  Friday is good.  I'll just have to be careful with feeding?  Yes.  Two days of food, then one day off.  Then their day.  It'll be sad to see them go.  But better than they are feeding someone, as that is, really, what they are for.  They failed as breeding stock, if partly my problem.  Might as well see them as food, rather than be a total waste.

I will, today, then, begin calling around to arrange for kits this fall or early winter.  I found a resource, but hard to tell if it is up-to-date... if the people are still raising, and offering, rabbits.  Yea.  I'll make some calls, or emails if necessary, take medicine, have something to eat while I look for a show, then go on to a nap?  Yes, probably, and about in that order.  Later, or goodnight.

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On the good sides?  Friday, is on.  It looks like the information I had, regarding rabbitries in the nearby seems reasonably fresh enough that at least one raiser is still in the business.  And, there were three others raising Californians.  They were all email only, so... those were sent.  Oh, and I found that my mother had called earlier.  So I called her.  She was just getting into the nursing home, so asked if she could call back.  Of course.

Hmm, now for some food.  Medicine is in.  Save insulin.  I had... fallen down on medicine again.  But, back on it since last night.  Will keep up.  Later.

Chores.

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Those first, I guess.  How many days has it been that I have done chores every day?  I can't remember.  A week, closer to two?  Three?  I just can't remember.  Oh, it makes me tired.  Especially when it is 88 out there, as today.  Still, not bad?  Running out of feed.  I have two unopened bags, but... was hoping not to have to get into those.  I only have a day or two left of feed though.  I'll... see what is going on after this post.

Now that they are used to getting fresh water, and having it on tap pretty much always, they are drinking less.  Odd how that works... rabbits, humans, males, females... when we have plenty, we often go without.  When we have nothing, we... gorge when the opportunity presents itself... often to excess.  It's... not just water.

Next, a meal.  There won't be much, but it will do.  Probably a quarter pound, with meat and veggies.  But... it's all good.  I'm having a fatted coffee.  But will save some of it for with the meal.

After?  I may go upstairs, and tinker with the sewing machine.  Button holes are my primary first concern.  More so if I can adjust the size of it.  Though I suspect it won't terribly matter, it would just... be good.  Sometimes  it might be much easier to have a smaller hole, for side pockets I am thinking.  Or larger holes, for whole pack cinching?  Something like that.  I am sure one medium hole size would work though.

I am unsure about the belt loops as well.  That will be a manufactured thing, created, literally, out of whole cloth... if not quite in the way the term means?  A literal translation, if along the same lines of meaning.  I like... language.  It can be so fun, even if it doesn't make sense, or... does in this case?  *grins*  Enjoy life or not, I choose to, even if I don't always understand it.

Dreaming... of a woman.  Not sure if she was a real.  We were in shadows, couldn't see faces.  I could tell she was pretty, curvy, womanly, with still a hint of the maiden to her.  Un... touched.  Sort of a, literally again, blind date.  Just not fully blind.  Talking, flirting to nearly holding hands.  Such little daydreams.  I enjoy those as well.  Light or dark, not sure how they exist.  I know I am often tired, and if it is too much above 70, or 60 or lower, these things are more prone to happen.  As well, if I am doing more work, that increases the odds.  Not erotic, but it sure had fringes of  that.  Women are sure attractive creatures.  Annoying.  Whatever.

Well, on to lunch.  And I should see about medicine, not sure if I have had that yet.  Then a text or three.  And, finally, on up to tinker.  Good day.

Down late, up late.

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I just couldn't get to bed.  Never did sew.  Just... sat, looking through the internet.  I made it to bed sometime after 02:00.  Perhaps as late, or later, than 03:00, but... maybe right after 02:00.  I just can't be sure.  Awake at 12:30.  I woke earlier, around 07:00 and 08:00, but just... rolled back in.  No choice.

I turned the ac down a bit.  And am leaving it lower.  With me up there, and through the morning, the temp got to 75, near me.  With just one ac and one fan.  That after the sun was up and heating the place, by noon.  It had been cooler earlier.  Strange, but I'll gladly take it.  It was the warming that made waking possible.  I would guess it was closer to 72 around 07:00 and 08:00, which is possibly why I couldn't wake.

Chores, shortly.  And the remaining roast and leftover veggies, shortly as well.  Not sure which first.  The next things are getting the freezer washed off, then resetting dishes, to do those before long.  Then, after that, a shower, and more dishes.  Laundry?  Not sure I have enough of any type of load.  Could do a general load, I suppose?  I'll have to check.

Sassy has been fed, and litter cleared.  It is warming, up to 82, with "Lo" humidity inside, 75 upstairs, and 88 outside.  Good enough.  But it will, of course, be getting hotter.  I like the upstairs.  When it is 70, or even 72 up there, it is too cold to work in.  Sleeping is fine, more or less, with enough blankets.

It think lunch, first.  The roast and veggies, and a fatted coffee.

I'm not sure what it up with deliveries, but... even when they have stuff at the local station, it doesn't necessarily get delivered until the exact day they said it would.  In spite of having things going out that day.  I received two packages today, while there are two or three packages still at the local warehouse?  Are they out of workers at the place?  Have they been firing, and not replacing workers, so that they simply can't load up the trucks?  Not sure, but it's... odd.  

And, I still have an item... not sure when it was ordered but was shipped the 27th.  There have been no updates.  I couldn't cancel, but I put in for a return.  The thing is, it has to be here before it can be returned!  Something is really going wrong.  The fuel costs have to be nearly crippling.  Someone is paying for that, and, so far, it hasn't been me.  So far.  Though, it won't ever be me.  If prices go up, I just stop buying.  I can barely afford what I am buying, but see no choice with what all is coming.

Expect people to be sent home, from many jobs.  And, other, realize they can't make enough to afford the gasoline, and else, to go to work.  It... just doesn't pay.  Until things change, they will keep changing for the worse.  You'll know it hit bottom when nothing is open.  We'll see about diesel.  And the required additive.  And parts for monitoring that.  Long-haul trucking, and short-hauls too really, stop?  You'll... know it.  Won't even be able to get gasoline.  What do you think delivers that?

My guess?  They'll, whoever has real power, pull the epa regs, and parts, and just go back to the way it was.  With the SC's recent decision, that may not even be stoppable.  It was a regulation created by bureaucrats.  I think those things are about to be rescinded in droves, this may just be a problem that fixes itself, and many other things.  We'll see.  Either that, or expect to starve.

Interesting times.  Not times chosen to live through, but... definitely interesting.

A good holiday weekend.

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It would be the 4th.

I didn't get out, to see fireworks.  I heard many going off, here in town.  I enjoyed from a distance.  Most likely there will be more, for a while.  The locals enjoy this holiday.  And another one coming up, a state holiday with similar sentiments?  Something like it.  I enjoy that, too.

I made dinner.  Fresh veggies and roast pork.  Couldn't eat all that much, but more than usual of late.  A bit of butter, for the veggies.  Oh, and fresh mushrooms.  Though I certainly didn't finish all the veggies and mushrooms, or even the meat.  I will put that all up, and have it for a meal tomorrow.  Should be just about as good as it was today.

I haven't been able to get to much.  Watched an old movie, or finished watching it.  That and dinner.  It is down to 81 (or 79 depending on proximity to the computer), 77 in the main, and 63 outside.  Not a great cooling, but... something.  Fairly typical, for this part of the year.  Or, finally.

I may head on up, and tinker with things.  See about practicing the circular button hole.  That would be great for a lot of outdoor gear.  From backpacks to camping quilts, anything that could use a shockcord as either a tension device, or a variable tension zone.  For holding water bottles, or having ties for the back of the pack to hold certain items, or as a way to close up the quilt around the body or face.

Everything I will be doing will be good for something regarding gear.  Though on easier material to work with.  Cotton is so very easy.  Nylon and poly ripstop, lined or not, is... tricky stuff.  One thing at a time.  Oh, and the first big project will be simple pj's.  But thicker.  Even in the summer, if I must wear something, I do prefer thicker pj's.  Hmm... making shorts instead of pants might make that work.  As well, I'd like to figure out t-shirts.  And get enough material, needles, and thread to do several.  I'd like to make a few, and really get it down pat.  Try several materials, which will mean different threads, and maybe needles.  Once I get the t-shirt down, then I'd like to get enough to make a dozen.  And, just keep it on hand.  When I can't get stains out, then toss them into the rag/remnant bag, and make a new one or three.  Just... black t-shirts.  Nothing fancy whatsoever.  Thicker, longer, fit me correctly, probably several sizes... as I do change from time to time.  But... just two sizes, most likely.  And all the same material, thread, and needles.

Just learning those two things, and having materials on hand, will be a reasonable start.  Then, perhaps, on to curtains?  Maybe.  As I mentioned, the ones I have can't be washed.  I absolutely hate that.  And, I think I can make them even darker.  These are mostly blackout, but they use as thin as they can, rather than overbuilding.  So, It's just barely dark enough.  I prefer it as dark as possible.  

But, tonight, just... maybe... the glasses case.  Nothing fancy.  Something to play with.  Lined, with button holes, sized, and... not quite so girly.  Hopefully something neutral, or more masculine, if I'm not sure what might work.  Not long though, not sure I will finish it.  But... I'll do a bit.  Goodnight.

A bit rough.

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While I can handle heat much, much, better than ever before, when the high 80s or higher becomes the norm, I... that is pushing things.  Currently, indoors, in this front room, it is 88, with "Lo" humidity.  The main of the house is between 80 and 82.  Outside is 82 with 22% humidity.  This front room gets sun on the slanted roof and the three outside walls, so it and the master bedroom are hotter.  Colder too, as they don't have vents, from the furnace.

Upstairs is 72.  Not sure why it is cooler.  The coolest I used to be able to get it, with two ac's running, and fans, was 73, at night.  Why it is cooler, I just can't say.  No, I checked windows.  Whatever the case, I'll take it.  Though, too, given the general heat down here, that is actually cold.  But, if I don't keep it going, it gets really warm, and takes a day or two to cool off again.  So... choices.  Limitied choices.  Though... perhaps I could change the level of cooling.  Hmm... Worth a shot.

I haven't been able to do much today.  And I won't be doing much more.  Chores, lunch, a few fatted coffees, fed Sassy, took care of her litter boxes.  Oh, and brought in fresh water, changed her water, and may get waterers refilled before long, or in the morning with the next chore remnants.  I just can't do much.  The heat is getting to me.  Though, the cold, upstairs, gets to me too.

Hmm... I'll sit in the living room, for a bit.  See it that can make the upstairs seem more reasonable.  Then, maybe, get up there and work on a glasses case.  Nothing fancy.  Just figuring out the machine and simple sewing, speed adjustments, and such.  I don't have enough materials to do anything fancy, or much at all.  But this?  This I think I can do.

Or a nap?  Maybe both.  Roast, later.  With fresh veggies.  I just steam the meat and veggies altogether.  One pan, simple life.  Later.

A... fugly pocket protector?

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I got the bobbin filled.  Worked with it.  Something is wrong, with the filling process.  I'll keep working on it.  I was able to get it to fill fully, top to bottom.  But, left to it's own devices, it fills more to one side, or the other, at an angle.  I... just don't like that.  I don't think that is the way it is supposed to go.  I will look around, see if I can sort that out.

Ah, but my first project...  I thought to make a little pocket, so as to put pens in.  Engineers know, or used to know, these items.  Called pocket protectors.  Though the originals were made of plastic, or such.  When pens had ink reservoirs, and could leak for any or no reason.

This one wouldn't protect the pocket, but it would hold a number of pens, pencils, and maybe a few small measuring devices, such as a mechanical compass, or ruler, or more.  Well, save that it's an ugly girlish print.  It... was the first thing I grabbed when I was doing something earlier.  Then cut it down for something else.  But didn't end up using it for anything else, save to put the first line of stitches on... then pulled those.

Anyway.  I hemmed the top edges, sewed it inside out with a quart inch seam allowance, then turned it inside out and pushed the corners to square... rectangular, if squared at the corner?  I'm never sure, always, about exact terminology.  But... that should give you the point?  Told you I was a bit geekish.  Then checked it out.  Putting sewing kit in it.  Though, then I had another idea.

I wondered if my glasses would fit.  Just on a lark.  Yep!  The perfect size for a glasses case.

My first project.  I trimmed the threads.  I did go back and forth, and the beginning and ends, of everything I stitched.  Not exactly a project of any worth.  But, that it was completely contemplated and constructed from nothing more than my imagination, without much cutting, no measuring, and no other inputs?  Meh.

I have other things in mind.  But, the self-repairing mat hasn't arrived.  Actually, in spite of amazon saying it was sent, there have been no updates since... the 22nd?  I may just cancel that, and look around.  Even other sellers on amazon.  That's... I don't like that.  Oh, but I do have scissors, nice shears just for sewing... some standards, but too, Gingher, 8", spring action.  In the 1884" lever action... wait... maybe not a repeating shear.  Still, they are supposed to be top-notch?  I suppose I could cut the material by hand.

I wouldn't mind making another glasses case, for beside the bed at night.  But, even so, a few... things.  One?  No girly prints.  I may have my problems, that isn't one of them.  It doesn't have to be extremely manly, just... not girlish.  Though, preferably handsome rather than pretty.  No one will know, but I will.  So...  Next?  I'd like to double sew the hem, so that I could add a drawstring.  There is, too, a way to make a button type hole that is round.  If it is big enough, or can be sized, that would be a good thing to put on both sides of the line pull pathway.  Further?  I'd like to put something on the back that would fit a belt, or strap.  Improvements.  Not sure, exactly, how to do any of those things.  Only one way to find out.  Oh, and this time, I would need to measure, so that the drawstring could close fully, and the glasses would fit within even that, without problems one way or another.

I... will look through the fabric bits and pieces next time I get to it.  Some practice with the round button hole stitch setting, too.  Oh... I'd like a lining, as well.  Oh, and I have an eighth or quarter inch seam allowance foot, that I would prefer to use.  If nothing else for practice, but I am using less seam allowance, up front, so I don't have to cut off the extra, or iron.  Hmm... I could set the little new iron up, as well.  I'll have to use a towel, folded a few times, as a pressing station, for now.  And, maybe, the extra piece for the extended sewing table... which is more for quilting... but will work for this, with three or four folds of a towel on top.

Getting set up, and going.  Will have to see how this work out.  But, for now, just... tinkering on the web.  And, maybe, before long, getting to the freezer top... clearing and cleaning.  Then resetting dishes.  Hmm, lunch, a late one if I woke late, first.  Three pieces of chicken sounds good.  Roast and veggies, later.  Still, will try to get to bed earlier tonight.  And up earlier tomorrow.  But... it is a holiday.  If I am going to sleep in, this would be that day.  Later.

Chores.

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This, probably, will be the last week of chores, until fall.  Assuming nothing changes, and the plans are fulfilled.  I haven't heard back, as to when they will be butchered, but it is supposed to be this week.  I haven't called about replacements, and won't until August.  The hope is that by September, or October, there will be new rabbits.  Half as many, all up close.  Easier to feed and water by triple, as there will be fewer and I won't need to walk to the shed, fifty yards out, at least daily, twice daily in freezing weather.

I will know, by then, if the offer on the house is worth the particulars.  As mentioned, I don't think they will even offer what the place has been valued at, let alone what it is worth to me.  Still, that is out there until it definitely isn't.  Between Blackrock and the Chinese, and anyone else who is trying to deal with all the filthy lucre they have stolen, there is still a lot of money looking for a place, or thing, to be attached to.  Better to have land, than devaluing fiat currencies.  Not fully liquid, but... better than debased currencies, being debased further by the second.  I wonder if they have a ticker that tells them just how much they lose, on say a billion dollars, per second, through inflation and low interest?  Like an F16 being flown as directly down as possible, I could imagine.  Cash is a lodestone.

Still, they... have to believe there is enough value.  On rent?  This place would go for three times what I am paying in mortgage.  I suppose, for them, in the short term, all it has to do is look, on the books, like it is breaking even (in truth), but be supervalued as if the rent was a forever, and increasing, thing.  It's like having forty tons of gold-plated lead bars.  But, in the short run, if no one looks (and no one is looking), it will work.  They will get around to hanging, those who don't jump, in time.  Just... not today.  And, that is all they have, or need, for the moment.

It is a dangerous world out there.  The worse?  Dying isn't the worst.  Dying, having sold your soul, knowingly, is the worst.  And... there will be a lot of that.  Plus, this isn't even the end.  I just don't think so.  The end of eras, epochs, nations, groups of nations, and more than as it seems.  Even the church is going to become humble, and very, very, small.  Though, too, a lot of people, good and ill, will die.  The wiser Judas', by their own hand?  The less wise, by all those they have betrayed, starting at home.  You'd... be surprised.  Or, maybe not.

Well?  Enough cheer for one holiday.  I'll get on to tinkering with the sewing machine.  I didn't get matching thread on the bobbin and threaded through the machine.  Perhaps the thread holder didn't fit, which I used for the bobbin, or I couldn't figure out how to get it to fit.  I'll try again today.  If so, I'll get bobbins for each sort of threat I have.

Of course, I bought thread... ignorantly.  Most of it is, or seems, good... good enough.  Cotton, size 50?  Some of it I can't figure out.  I will have to go online, later, and see what it is, exactly, that I bought.  Cotton, 50 weight, should work for most things.  I also have a heavier weight of thread, that would work for denim.  And some I just can't be sure.  Though, I can't tell the weights or material, of some of them.

For outdoor gear, mostly nylon or polyester, 100%, and thin, is wanted, and needed.  Small needles too.  For typical cotton or linen clothes, a standard type.  Though, for stretch fabrics, like more comfortable t-shirts, maybe smaller needles?  I'm... just... sort of... figuring things out.  So very much to learn.  So very much to stock.  It seems much easier to purchase all as needed.  No way, or reason. to try to buy enough for any potential product.  I suppose, if you were a billionaire, you might... do groups of mixes and matches, up front.  As is, I will just buy what is needed, per project, plus a few extra... enough to complete the project without doubts.  Then, if it is something I will do more often?  Then I will stock up enough for three or four, a dozen, or three dozen projects.  Though... does polyester or nylon thread decay?  Cotton?  What about fabrics?

So much, so very much, to learn.  But... learn I will.  One or two or a dozen things per day, as is possible.  As well, from learning in the past, I realize that learning is only just so good.  Forgetfulness, or changes when you use what you learn with something else you don't know but didn't know you didn't know, etc.  Life... is messy.  Learn every day of your life and you will still be in the lurch, it seems, more often than not.  Ah... but take that with some humility, and sort it.  Another gift from God, after the fall.  Truly.  

I am continually finding myself amazed, and blessed, by the gifts God gave us.  Humbling as they are?  For it, not despite that.  I need it.  Can't speak for others, but humility is my favorite grace.  At least, when I recognize it for what it is, and bow to it, then work from there on to the next steps in life, a project, a relationship.  I am terribly grateful for such a little thing... finally.  An annoyance, once, now the most profound of graces.  Amen.

Weirdly nice.

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I did get the shower in.  Just the body, needed though.  Then I did get upstairs and get the machine set up.  I figured out how to wind a bobbin, thread the machine, get the bobbin in and set up.  And... ran my first stitches, then pulled them.  Just to... get used to each.  Okay, I did use the auto threader.  I was too tired to fiddle.  Though, as much as is done, I'm not absolutely sure it saves on the eyes, certainly not on time?  Well, suppose, if you are a female, and not used to put things in holes... maybe.  Women are such uncoordinated beasts.  Though, maybe I am being harsh on them, in this, if I think not.  No coordination.  I suppose they don't generally need it.

That done, I unplugged the machine, and put it up.  then went on to bed.

And slept.  So very well.  But cold?  I had trouble staying warm.  Two blankets were used, three are needed?  Or, maybe, I just needed to keep them on, but would heat just a bit and kick them off, then couldn't keep them on.  Something.  Had a bit of trouble, if sleep was grand, most of the time.

I could not wake this morning.  When it is below 73, especially now, waking can be difficult?  Very strange.  While I certainly like it cooler, I am not able to do much when it is cooler.  It wasn't until it started warming that I was able to get going this year.  My circulation, I suppose.  I have, indeed, become... a lizard?  A turtle?  Something cold blooded.  It was 72 near me, and 70 in the main of the room.  Not... sure why it is so much cooler today?

It is full sun, and 84 outside.  It is 77 front and back in the house.  Is that normal, for noon?  I guess.  It will probably warm through the day.  Humidity is back to "Lo".  Still, a rather pleasant day, so far?  I... think so.  Once I could break out of the cold.  I woke at 07:30, then 08:30, then couldn't get up until 12:30.  Very strange.

Today?  Well, trash didn't go out, as it is the 4th.  Of course.  So, that will go out later.  Chores will be done, shortly... soon.  And, I'd like to get the freezer cleaned, dishes reset then finished.  Get another shower perhaps, then set up more dishes.  Not sure about laundry.  Maybe there is another load that could go through?  Oh... and I'd finally like to get some wall racks up... for air drying in the house.  They accordion in and out as needed.  I think I have two sets.  Great for privates, in the summer, and many things in the winter.

Since it is the 4th, I may have chicken a bit earlier, AND roast later on.  Both have been grilled.  They might be leftovers, but... it's a holiday.  Nice not to have to work, even mildly, on such a day, right?  Ah, but I best get more meat out, thawing, for cooking tomorrow.  Maybe three things, cooked tomorrow, for the whole week?  Sounds easy enough.  Just grill it, so much cooler.

Ah, I would also like to get the sprinklers set up, and get the swamp cooler loaded and going.  See if that works at all.  No more cleaning, or else, other than what was mentioned.  But plans, for tomorrow.  Finishing upstairs, or hitting more and more of it.  Then beginning in on this front room.  As well, perhaps going through things and boxes in the living room and spare bedroom.  But... tomorrow.

I really am getting to things.  Keeping up on putting things away, when they arrive through shipping, and even staying on top of boxes, mostly.  If I can keep this up, and maybe I can this summer... The cave might actually end up looking a whole lot more like a house.  I'll even start going through the collection here on the computer desk.  And boxes of things nearby.  Yes... I can begin that today.  While listening, and somewhat watching, the web.

Still, so strange that it got so cool upstairs.  Not sure why.  But it was very nice.  I'll figure out the too cold parts.  Having a place to truly escape the heat is wonderful.  And that with just one ac going.  Later.

Now, can I get to the shower!?!

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It took a while to get up, and then upstairs.  but I did.  Made room, set up the table, and have it roughly arranged for sewing... kit around, the practice cloth... remnants and quarters, I think?  The machine is up there.  I even bought a scalpel to use as a seam ripper, better suited to my hands.  Might do something more with it, such as expand the handle with electrical tape?

Yea, it's pretty much set up.  Not plugged in, but that will happen soon.  As well, bobbins filled, needle installed, threaded.  It has an automatic threader, but to be honest I will probably do that by hand until I am good at it.  As with a rifle, even if you have a semi-auto?  Start on single shot.  Just... trust me.  I will do things the hard way, first.  If nothing else, to appreciate the good things, but in due time.

I did clear some of the floor, stored a few things away, brought some things out which need to be checked.  Nothing... huge.  But enough, and more.  Pleased enough to have set up the machine.

Now to see about a shower.  It sounds soooo good.  And I have been a good boy.

If the shower refreshes me, I will plug the machine in, and wind a few bobbins.  I purchased... twelve extra?  It came with two.  Next time I am in, I will buy four or five more sets of six.  Yea.  It's better to have too many than too few.  If I do the bobbins, I'll try to thread the machine after.  Probably get three bobbins, with three different colors?  Or every color I have?  Yes, then thread the machine.  But with which color?  Probably, to start, with the color that will show the best on the most other colors.  White?  Red, if I have it?  Black and grey will disappear on too many things, if white will, often, too.  Bleh.

Well... on to a shower.  And, maybe, getting the machine all ready for... soon.  Tomorrow?  Maybe.  Goodnight.

Ugh.

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It is 88 up here, 81 in the living room, cooler further back, 74 outside.  It just isn't coming in, cooling the place, at all.  There is a breeze running through.  That just isn't doing anything.

Pork roast and green beans.  Nothing all that great, but it really wasn't bad.  Tomorrow, three drumsticks and... fresh veggies?  Or salad?  Who knows.  But something like that.  Still waiting on the hose, for the grill.  When that comes in, I'll hit bacon, and try various types of eggs.  Might be a while, but... it'll happen.

A bit more work upstairs?  I can try.  Nothing down here, it is just too warm.  If the house cools off, perhaps in the morning I will get to dishes.  And, maybe, more laundry?  As well, more work upstairs.  Will be trying to do a good deal more tomorrow, upstairs.  Might get it all in a day, might take a week.  But I'll... plod along, get things done, do chores, possibly dishes, and else.

It has been a very good week, this past week.  Very, very, good.  Even showering every day, chores every day, lots of things.  Eating well, or... mostly.  Medicines on target.  Oh, and I did completely fill two remaining medicine dispensers, giving me a three month supply.  But... I best get in, for blood work, so I can order the next batch.  Running out.  Still, it's been... six months?  Now, that I have been on medicine?  It's still rough, but this last week gives me hope.  Not sure if it's the heat, getting used to the medicine, a mix, or... something else?

I have done what I could.  I just couldn't do much.  Now it is becoming wonderful.  Brutal, I am paying for the work.  But I... love brutality.  I love breaking through, working, doing.  Such things are a gift, in my eyes.  A gift from God, given that sin took us to death.  We chose, He gave us... a way to... sort things.  And, work allows one to... rethink.  It's not the only way, or even always the best way, but it is a way.

Oh, right.  Fireworks.  Just hearing it off in the distance.  Glad for it.  Spooked me, just a bit, the other night.  Until I remembered the special day coming up.  I am so glad to live in an area which does celebrate.  What are they celebrating, exactly?  That I can't say.  If I am pretty sure it isn't against what the day is for, or not completely.  Some of the celebration, as with the first celebrants, should be against tyranny.  And we are headed to that, in that actually.  But, one can celebrate America, without celebrating tyranny.  Love the country, not necessarily the government.  Amen.

Anyway... on up to do a bit more work.  Maybe some cool water along the way.  If I am a good boy, and make room for the new table, and open up at least half the floor, I will take a shower before bedtime.  Just the body.  Sure loving showers.  Later, or goodnight.

Some things.

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Most of the table was cleared.  Mostly.  Some of the floor was cleared, but certainly not all.  A device I purchased a year or two ago was put together.  Nothing at all fancy, certainly not all of it.  Then I just ran out of energy.  Down, sitting, looking through the internet since.  I spent probably between two and three hours doing bits and pieces up there.  Not a lot, but given the temperature today, and what I have been doing this week, it... was enough.

I did text about the rabbits.  Was told that would be looked into.  Haven't heard back.  Not in a rush.  If I don't hear anything by tomorrow afternoon, I'll check again Tuesday.

I am hoping, yet, to clean off the freezer, reset then hit the dishes, get the trash and maybe recycling out to the curb, and maybe do a bit more work upstairs.  Nothing fancy, but maybe sort a few more piles, or areas, moving a bit further toward finishing things.  At least I have started.

The heat isn't oppressive?  Well, it's... something though.  It is 89 in this front room, 84 in the main of the house... cooler in the kitchen, with humidity at "Lo".  It is 73 upstairs and 85 outside.  I think it has very gently started cooling.  The wind was from the South, and, yeah... it is a hot wind.

Not bad.  I guess.  Though I really would like to get the swamp cooler loaded up, with water, and get that going.  As it cools, this evening, I also need to set up the sprinklers.  I could use the hose to fill the tank tonight.  Then do some sprinkling... or at least have that set up for tomorrow night?  Ugh.

It is a bit rough.  If I have definitely seen worst.  And I am tolerating the heat much better than almost ever before.  I think more of the problem has been pushing through this last week.  I'm just tired, from the work.  The heat is a bit much, but... it's more keeping me from reenergizing than causing problems on it's own.

Hmm, a few pieces of chicken?  Or some pork roast?  I am thinking roast, but what to go with it?  A can or two of veggies?  I had fresh last time.  I'd like to mix and match canned and fresh, so I don't use either up too fast.  Green beans should be good.  Later. 

Wow, falling.

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I did get chores finished.  The rabbits are actually quite excited to see me in the mornings or afternoons.  And I am glad to see them enjoying life a bit more, with daily attention.  As well, I got the waterers taken apart and into the bucket to fill sometime soon.

I have been sitting, trying to get going, since.  It is heating.  Up to 82, at just 10:31.  I'm not going to be able to make it much further.  A nap?  Probably.  It should be cooler upstairs.  Quite a breeze going, with strong occasional gusts.  But it is getting so hot that it just doesn't matter.  I may begin closing the house up.  No real choice.  Getting too hot, too quickly.  While not cooling off much during the night.

Yes, up to a nap.  After one or two small things.  I'll try to get work done upstairs, since the house, down here, is getting too hot.

Forgot to post this?  The nap was good.  Just waking at 12:21.  It is 72/75 upstairs, 82/83 downstairs, and 87 outside?  Very strange.  And the breezes, wind, and gusts continue.  I'll have a bite to eat, chicken?  Maybe, and a salad.  Then, when I can do else, I'll get upstairs and begin opening, clearing, cleaning.  I think I can.

Up already?

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Down at midnight.  Right at.  Awake at 7:15, if I didn't actually get out of bed until 08:07 or so.  I wasn't sure I wanted to wake.  I'm not sure I had a choice?  The place is warm.  It was 75 near the bed, 72 out in the room.  I think I was having dreams, or seemed to be if I don't remember them.  My dreams heat the place up like nothing else.  Then again, it's morning, and that is the sunward side.  Could have just been that.

I thought about staying up, and getting to work up there.  But I just wasn't up for it quite yet.  It has been a wonderful week, for work, given my givens.  But it is Sunday.  Dang it!  I missed confession again.  I may see about making an appointment, seeing about getting in at a different time?  There is the old, that needs clarification, including suicides, and there is the ongoing.

It is between 74 and 75 downstairs, cooler in the front room for now.  And, I thought it read 73 outside, at the 08:30 time.  A cup of coffee going down.  A shower last night makes waking better.  I won't work hard today, so I may skip showering today, or not.  I am really enjoying those.

I have been eating lightly... on the days I do eat.  Some days it's just coffee.  Haven't lost a pound, but am losing belly size... a bit.  It isn't exactly just melting off.  More just changing form.  A bit more muscle replaces fat, I think.  Not at any speed, but... it is what it is.  If I could keep this going for a few years...  Most likely not going to happen.  But, all this week, I have worked to the point of breaking a sweat, several times a day, for for much of the day on some days.  That's what I want to see.  Just couldn't until recently.

A bit tired, sore.  But not terribly.  Shoulders are still a bit cranky.  I'm not sure what I did to them, or what is wrong.  All I know is raising them, like making an arm "wing", crooked in, and lifting them, they hurt, and there is a catch.  If I go slow I can make it up.  If I move fast, they will stick about two thirds the way up, and create a wrinkle in there that hurts like heck.  Hmm, elbow crawl motions seems to work that.  I might try those from time to time...  and it brings the arms up at an angle, so I can get past that kink in it.

Today?  As mentioned, not much.  But, getting trash and possibly recycling to the curb, washing the freezer top off, then starting in on dishes.  At least the load that is set, maybe another if I can get through those.  And... upstairs.  Anything I can do up there will be happy.  The ac is running, so it should be doable.  Maybe a nap.  I'd really like to push through up there, get it cleared, vacuumed, and sprinkle baking soda and diatomaceous earth... let those soak in for a few days.

If I can get that sorted, at least to the point of the powdering, and the table cleared and new one set up?  Then I can set up the sewing machine, for one thing, and begin practicing.  And, then, begin in this front room.  Taking it apart, clearing and cleaning down to the floor.  Oh, and another thing, possibly for the day?  Setting up the swamp cooler.  Just have it on the porch, blowing in?  Maybe.  With the way the house breathes, and that blowing moistened air in, it might really help this front room.  Which is hitting 90, as things stand.  Too hot.

Plans, hopes, goals.  But... I have been getting to some things pretty much every day.  And I have been tolerating the heat, as well, and going on through.  God is giving me a chance, and I am running with it.  Oh, chores?  Did I mention chores?  Actually, I'll do those before I finish my coffee.  Later.