Finally to watering the lawn.

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Oh, it's rough.  It needed watering long ago... a week... three... a month?  Medicine has had me beaten and shut down.  It hasn't improved much, and the heat is not helping.  But, doing just a bit better.  Enough better to get to it.  I'll just be hitting the front, and some of the side yard.  Perhaps the back yard a bit tomorrow.  I'll move it every half hour, and cut when I have hit the three "corners" that reach all else.  Some overlapping, but... that's... good for now.

One of the hoses has a bust in it.  I taped it, which worked a bit.  I'll need to tape it more though.  When I move it, I'll add more tape.  If all else fails, I'll pull that hose until I can more properly repair... the next time I go to water.  I'll need to check all the hoses.  I have plenty, so no real issue.  It's just, they are heavy, and difficult to work with, especially when it is still warm out there, and I am heatsick.

Even with the ac keeping temps cooler, sleeping during the day, which seems all that is possible, I get a bit ill from the light and warmth.  So, that it isn't cooling much out there, and I'm still a bit overheated from moving packages, wrestling the hoses is a bit taxing.

My neck is still out of place.  And that pretty much causes pain up and down the body.  Bleh.  More tylenol.  It's what I've got, if I suspect it won't help much.  Hmm...  After the first half hour of sprinkling, I'll take a shower before setting the other area going.  I will move it to it's place, but not start it.  And add more tape to the hose, look it over a bit more closely.

I took a shower yesterday, but another would be fine.  Plus, a shower might help me cool down a bit better.  I can't be certain if I am overheating, or if it is simply really not cooling off out there.  It is reading 79, in here, with everything running and everything open.  Maybe it just hasn't dropped much below 70 yet out there.  If so, it just won't cool much in here, even with the upstairs open and an extra fan going there too.  Ugh.

Ribs hurt, too, actually.  It's about time for a shower.  I'll move the sprinkler first.  Then get on to a shower.  It's a bit early to take medicine?  I don't know.  If I took morning medicine now, it might help.  Take bedtime medicine at actual bedtime.  It would be taking things a bit ahead of schedule, but... my schedule IS ahead of schedule!  *grump*

Freaky... blood sugar has been in the 1st quarter 200's for the last few readings, 157 before that.  I have only been checking occasionally... once a day or so... for the last two to three days, give or take.  Today, for no good or bad reason, nothing different, it is at 123.  Now, month, two week, and weekly average is 145, 144, and 146, so it isn't all bad.  That was with some rough eating and troubled times, so...  I am heading in the right direction.  Still...  Whatevs.  I get frustrated trying to no good, and it fixing itself without any more help or hurt from my end.  It just does whatever the heck it wants, I guess.  Later.

A good thing, when it cools enough to open up.

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Checking what packages arrived, then dealing with them, I easily noticed how cool it was out there.  Of course, bringing in the packages was exhausting.  Ordering water online might be more convenient, but it is still a lot of work to bring those in and put them away.  Not even that many, but it wore me out quite well.

Even with it cooler out, and everything opened, upstairs and down... and an extra fan found and installed and turned on upstairs, it'll be an half hour before I cool down from the effort.  All good.  After I chill, I'll hit the waterers, refilling those.  I have put some of the bottles of water in the fridge.  During he spring, cool as it was, room temperature water was fine.  Now not so much, or not always.  Sometimes, though, on a hot day... a cold drink is just too much.

I'll need a meal before long.  I need to get to town, obtain fresh veggies.  Lettuce for with the burger, cheese to add with that as well, and a medley of veggies for with the roasts or chicken.  Fresh is so much better.  As well, more sausage.  And definitely more sauerkraut.  I'll take whichever they have, though if I can find the live culture kind, I will take that.  Glad I checked blood sugar, considering it is fermented.  Because, yes, it is worth it... at least until I can make a stab at fermenting my own.  But it's a lot of work, requires staying up on it, processing it up front, then jarring it after it is done.  It's... a bit of a task.  Even keeping up on kefir is a challenge at times.

Come on, world!  Help me cool down!  Sheesh.  Once I get overheated it takes forever to cool back down.  Later.

Another long day down.

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It is 81 in this front room, if I think it was 76 before turning the machine and lamp on.  It is 79 in general.  The living room was 73, and the back area was cooler yet.  Just a little activity, and my presence, has caused everything to go up.  Upstairs was 71 near me, and 73 in the general area.  Very strange.

Outside is currently 74.  It is very overcast, but doesn't have the feel that it will rain.  I'll take the shade.  It isn't a cool 74, mind you.  It is just better than high 80's or 90's, maybe even higher.  It feels like a desert.  Nothing moist or cool to be sensed anywhere.

One duckling less.  It found a small pool, climbed in, and drowned.  Stupid animal.  The other one has a deep and shallow end.  This one isn't even that deep, it's a dishpan.  I didn't think it could get in, and should it, the water is only four inches deep.  Bleh.  Stupid birds anyway.  I dumped that pool, for now.

The rabbits look good.  Tired, worn, and such.  But... all living.  It's as much as I can do.  May still lose some to this heat.  And, yes, this is normal heat.  If anything, it has been cooler this year, until now.  Now it is normal or near normal, though it might go a bit high or low that little bit off-normal it might be.

Today was another painful day.  I tried to sleep through it, and did, mostly.  Waking every once in a while.  New pains.  Lightning strikes from my hips to my feet.  Sleeping too long?  Sleeping to motionless?  I can't be sure.  Similar other pains, muscular skeletal shoulders, neck, on up to include an occasional headache, the areas around the organs, and other things.  Very rough, even in sleep.

Medicine is back on a more exact schedule, and caught up.  I took morning pills as I woke, having taken evening pills when I went to bed, so I wouldn't have to go as often.  Still had to go a lot.  Very odd.  Then again I am drinking more because of  the dry and hot weather.

I'll open up the house in a few hours, when it goes to 70 or less.  It probably averages  a bit less than 73 in here, so it would just be heating the place up.  The girls have been fed, and their litter managed.  I have packages to bring in and sort.  Much of it more water.  That stuff allows me to not drink as much... any... tea.  If I could drink plain water, I would.  I do have a device which makes carbonated water, but not in the volume I need it.  As slow as my r.o. is, it would take a week of steady work to make a month of water.  

I couldn't stick with it, anyway.  It's either this, or tea.  And, possibly, this is only a bit more expensive than tea.  Kombucha might allow me to carbonate and use up the last of the tea.  Though it takes a month to make, too.  So... I suppose... in time.  But carbonated tea... which would help even more?  It would be different, anyway.  And, if I can drink a quart and an half of dairy kefir a day, I am pretty sure I can handle kombucha and water kefir... both are lighter in enzymes, probiotics, yeasts, and whatnot.

Ugh.  So warm.  Oh, and blood nose.  Last night I could taste it, this afternoon I had to manage an actual bleed out.  Bleh.  It's hard to get rid of the taste when it is so dry and hot.  Oh... I made some of that vinegar lemon juice mix.  That'll clear and replace... a bit tight on the gut, taken on an empty stomach.  But worth the bother, especially with irony bloody taste to remove.  Later.

Things took longer than anticipated.

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It is already twenty to eight.  I am crashing.  was crashing earlier.  But... had... things to do.  A shower, shave, and teeth brushing were done.  Trash and litter earlier.  Oh, and the meat was bagged and put up.  I didn't have what it took to pull the pork.  I will, eventually.  Probably.  Or just chunk off pieces and warm those.  Who knows.

I have been reviewing kombucha.  Comparing it with water kefir.  Both make a fizzy drink.  I have made water kefir before, and like it.  But, it can be a bit of work.  More bottling for a second fermentation.  The same drawback exists for kombucha.  Still, while I truly enjoy milk kefir, I would like to have variety.

I am seriously thinking about adding both to my diet.  They are enough different, yet enough similar, to what I am already doing, in order to consider them.  Variants.  Plus, keeping up on as much milk kefir as I am doing is getting a bit difficult.  Adding a few other things in, and cutting milk kefir a bit, would... could... help out?

To that end, I am considering what it would take.  I have three or four half gallon jars available.  Perhaps, too, a couple of gallon jars.  Though it really looks like two to three gallon jars would be better, at least for the kombucha.  I have been looking over sources.  Amazon is a good place to source, not necessarily a good place to buy.  Every third to fifth product is extremely overpriced.  But... it is a good place to look for products, types, names, brands, and go from there.  Sometimes they offer good, even superior prices.  Just... be careful.

As well, there are alternatives to buying a scoby, or some such.  Including buying raw product, and adding that to the sweetened tea.  I suspect I have suspended water kefir grains around, somewhere.  With my water going through r.o., I merely need to collect enough... if I do keep two half gallon jars at the ready for cooking and drinking.  Well, and I'll need sugar.  No organic crap.  Just... real sugar.  Simple.  It works best, though a bit of molasses adds minerals, and isn't bad, at least for kefir water.

The last time I tried the local organic store, they required masks.  I found their number.  Unfortunately, they aren't open an hour or two.  I can't stay awake that long.  I'll call them when I can.  It is time to go on to bed.  I think the downstairs is shut up, but I'll do a quick check.  Then close things down upstairs as I go on to bed.  Good morning, day, and... night.

Crashing.

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I won't make it to dawn.  I don't understand.  Could it be the new medicine?  Or what it is doing.  Sure, it didn't seem to bring bp down, after it seemed to have done so.  But I slept a crazy lot yesterday.  Though... I didn't sleep for twenty four to thirty six hours, a few times this last week.  So, weather is playing havoc with things too.

I did get the upstairs opened up.  But have been closing down the downstairs, and probably started doing that before opening upstairs.  It's working out well though.  I may take the night medicine as I go to bed.  It's the doses which don't have the water pills.  Those make sleeping solidly difficult.

I am hoping to wake in four or five hours.  Sort out chores, then take another sleep or nap.  But, who knows.  Things are rough.  Good night.

So very strange.

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The temperatures are reading between 73 and 75 indoors.  Which, really, is sort of warm.  But I am cool, even cold.  Very odd.  I really don't understand that.

I did check the port roast.  I did it the length of time suggested, rather than a much shorter time.  And, it... is more like I am familiar, if... I still would often rather a firmer meat meal.  Still, it isn't horrible, if a little mushy.  It is fall off the bone done.  I'll need to pull the meat, and shred it, then put it in a bag for the week.  It's not bad, at all.  Just... I... wish it could be done and firm.  Not sure that is doable.  Or, perhaps, it needs to be specific sorts of cuts.  Chops, rather than roasts, for example?

Litter was changed out, mostly.  One group still looked good, the other two had to go.  While at it, trash and recycling were collected, taken out, and the barrels moved to the curb.  Hopefully a bit more cleaning and a shower and shave yet tonight.  Oh, and I should get upstairs, open that up.  I really ought to, when money works, get another fan for up there.  I have a good air mover, but it's lower to the ground and doesn't really draw air in.  Odd how things work.

I got behind on medicine.  Since I usually would be awake four to five hours earlier, medicine is a bit off.  I think I can get it managed, and reset things by tomorrow morning... the real morning, not my waking time.  Take medicine in, say, three more hours, then take the night dose, in the morning, as I am going to bed?  :p  All of that is literal.  Anyway, yes.

I need to start checking bp, to call my doctor either Friday and Monday, with a report on how that is doing.  Hmm... 189/114, pulse 86?  Right, but that was missing medicine for nearly half to full day.  I'll check when I am taking medicine, and sleeping, regularly.  Or... as regularly as I can get.  I'll often be a few to many hours off.  But, often, I manage medicine around it better... when... I can.  Blood sugar is also high, but... I... got into the dried fruit again.  That is... pretty harsh.  Gah.  Addicted, I'm telling you.

Hmm... on to a shower.  Perhaps setting up the hose, and watering the front lawn.  It's looking pretty rough.  Then, if I can, on to bed in a few hours.  Later, or good night.

19:01, as I sit here.

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I went to bed shortly after finishing morning chores and posting.  Perhaps 07:00, maybe 09:00, sometime in there.  I crashed hard.  I am not sure if things were starting to hurt, though I was numb.  The heat is getting to me.  Not that it is crushing me, more that it is slowly, over time, more and more, wearing me down.

I did wake, a few times, to a minor degree.  My body hurt so badly though.  It isn't necessarily my organs, but around them?  Just telling you what it feels like.  It might well be my organs, or just the stuff that holds them in place.  I have had doctors tell me organs don't hurt, and my brother tell me they most certainly do.  I believe myself and my brother.  But there were... a dozen aches and pains.  most around 4 to 6 on a 10 scale, a few which were worse.  From my feet to around organs, to ribs.

Certainly not the worst of painful days.  But a bit of a brutal reminder.  I haven't had pain for a while, not really hard stuff, or in lots.  So I... forget this thing.  If more numb than painless, which is why I have been crippled lately.  Still, better to be crippled and painless.  This is pretty harsh.

On the good side, while the upstairs and downstairs hits around 75, my little sleeping nook was around 70~72.  And, upon waking, it is about 70 out there, so I opened the downstairs.  I'll get to the upstairs, when I can.  I got out to check on critters.  Most of them.  Still four ducklings.  Which are large enough to get in the pool and feed bowls.  One rabbit was out of water... she must be goofing with the waterer.  And another was without a waterer.  I couldn't find it, either.  But food is good, and lasts days in the warmer weather.

I had been about to move the duck pool, somewhere flatter, so it would be fuller.  Glad I didn't.  The ducklings might not be able to get out, quite yet.  And, strangely, drowning is a common killer for ducklings.  Until they are a little larger, I will leave their pool right where it is at.

Tylenol... generic anyway.  I need some.  Oh, the roast should be taken care of shortly too.  I may pull some, heat it, and have a meal... when I can stand.  It's a rougher morning than I have had in a while.  At least I had a break from the pain.  I'm not sure if being used to it is better, or getting away from it only to have it come flooding back?  Though, being numb isn't much better, if that is all it is.  Bleh.

I haven't awaken so thirsty in a very long time.  I don't, usually, sleep that long anymore.  Oh well.  I need to make some of the apple cider vinegar and lemon juice drink.  It cuts through dry throat like magic.  Later.

No early bedtime.

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Couldn't.  On the good side, I did get the animals fed and watered this morning, just a bit past dawn.  I feel much better knowing, for certain, that there is food and water for them, especially if I will be down until late afternoon.  I did what I could to go down, just could not sleep.

It is cool, too, as a start out there.  Not cold, say 57... the lowest I saw it.  Probably warming.  The inside of the house is down to 70~72.  This front room, after everything was closed down, is already to 75.  I'm not sure about upstairs, but ill know shortly.  I will probably turn the ac on.

I had turned the timer on, last time.  But that didn't seem to turn off the machine.  I wouldn't bother today, as I want it to be as cool as possible while I sleep.  I would like to find a way to get it to turn off, though, for naps.  I'll have to tinker with it.  If you turn off all the automatic "smart" systems, which try to "save you money", it works well.  Unfortunately, it has to be reset every time it is turned off, then back on.  It is a very stupid smart machine.  It was rather cheap, probably because of that.  So... at least I saved money, for some inconvenience.  I'll do that trade all day long.

Hmm, then again, perhaps I should put the other ac in, and let it run instead, today.  It's a workhorse.  It was cheap too, but has no timers, bells, whistles, of any sort.  But it... works well.  Yea, if I can find a 14 or 16 three prong cord, I just might get that one going instead.  But, for now, just one at a time.

On to bed.  Good morning, day, and night.

I feared another thing tonight.

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Have you ever left something, for what you know to be too long, either out, or even in the fridge.  And, you knew, it was going to be at least a minor mess.  Though, given the time involved, it might well be a terrible one?  Now, what if you did both of those.

I had something in the instapot, and something in the fridge.  Both have been sitting... for a while.  I finally bit the bullet, and tore into them.  And?  Not... bad.  Not bad at all.  No gagging involved, not troubles dealing with it.  No fuss or difficulties.  Everything had been managed, and the pots were cleared and that tossed, and then the pots have been set to a soak.  Easy as pie.  I think the thing is, they were airtight.  Amazing.

I have the burger frying.  And, shortly, will cook all of the ground meats.  There is just so much room in the pan.  As well, after that and dinner, I will finish the pots and get a pork roast in and going.  Nothing fancy, but it works.  I'm not sure what veggies I have.  I may make some of those instant potatoes.  They aren't great, but they haven't caused major diabetes issues.  Then again, it's half a pack, and rare to have as well.  Might add corn, or hominy, to the potatoes?  Maybe.

The roast will just be allowed to cook and cool overnight.

It is sure cooling off, or feels like it.  It is reading 74, but if feels cooler.  I haven't checked out of doors recently.  Oddly, it sure feels like a reasonable night.  Heck, even the girls are climbing on me.  If it is too hot, they won't.  I should sleep well, when I can sleep.  Later. 

Cooler.

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Better cooling, so far.  Still not exactly cool.  Probably about as good as it will get.  It is in the mid 70's in this the front room.  Lower 70's everywhere else.  Fans going, cooler outside... 64 if I just read right, and with a strong breeze to wind from time to time.  Something moving, in the air.  Dust, or... something.  Rather odd.  Ash?  Who knows.

Something about kefir, is that while it is variable, there comes a point where a particular glass jar becomes too potent.  I can drink straight, hard, kefir, almost to the undrinkable stage.  But there really is a point when it becomes far too sour, or strong, or... something.  I had two jars, which hadn't been cleaned in... a month?  Three?  Yeah.  The rest are rather fresh.  I hated wasting, but there is nothing else I can do with it.

I don't strain the kefir.  I just let it grow.  Drink the jar, and eat some of the grains, down to about a sixth to a quarter from empty, then fill it to the three quarters mark with milk, and then let the ferment until it is done.  THEN, put fill it to top it off with more milk, and give it about two days in the refrigerator as it cycles through the other jars to it's turn to be consumed again.

The process continues on through.  I had, I think, six jars in the rotation, until these two were pulled, dumped, and will be cleaned and restarted soon.  To get more kefir grains, I don't save the old, bitter.  I just don't drink the next jar or two down as far as usual, and pull some of that out.  It seems to work well.  But, no, the old kefir just... once it reaches a certain point, I haven't found a way to make it sweet again.  Perhaps washing it... rinsing it... in water, then setting it fresh milk on the counter, then doing that a few times?  I just haven't had luck, and this other way works perfectly well.

I need to eat.  So, I best get to cooking!  I am hoping to cook and eat quickly, then get on to bed earlier.  I have the upstairs open too, and one fan going there.  Might get another fan for up there.  It is a bit warm, for being shut today, but the cool seems to be entering much quicker up there than even down here.

And, yes, I did go out and check on the critters.  Oddly, they are a lot less jumpy... no pun intended... in the dark than in the day.  Odd creatures.  Or, maybe, they are just getting used to me.  The mouse is still in the house, in the tub.  Not happy about it, not one bit.  I need to get one or two of those set up outside.  Though with water in them.  I found another mouse in the food.  Seeing signs.  Yes, I... want to get rid of mice.  The trap downstairs catches a new... or old... one every few weeks.  I try to remember to go down and check, often.  So far, no dead mice found.

Anyway... food and more cooling, gaming.  It's about all I can do.

One last thing.  I did start, finally, the new medicine.  A different type of heart medicine.  Oh, I was in trepidation, boys and girls.  I have had the worst experience with medication.  I have tried everything they could think, or much of it, for years.  Even what I am on is crushing me.  But... it works.  So, it was with great fear that I started.

One day tells me nothing.  But, nothing too terribly bad had happened, yet.  I may be of little faith, but even Christ showed rather than argued.  And, whether it was the medicine, or the heat of late, is too soon to tell, but an half hour to hour after taking the medicine, blood pressure had come down to 144/97, if pulse is 91.  But, that may or may not be what is doing anything.  And that pulse is simply ugly.

Later, or good night.

A few things of mind.

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A term I had forgotten.  Not the meaning, only the pronunciation?  Or... the word itself?  How to lose a word about losing oneself to find oneself?  To take "forever" to shoot an arrow is to become a master.  Time, really, isn't what it seems.  It never was.  Some see it, know it, even do it.  Most do not.  Do not believe in time.

Couldn't find Sam.

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At her age, if I can't find her, I worry.  Just a bit.  She has had a splendid long life.  And, hopefully, had some good human and animal relations.  Still, I will miss her if she goes first.  I was sure she was outside.  A walk around didn't rouse her.  Probably napping, somewhere.  She loves her naps, in or out.

I fed Sassy, indoors, as she won't go out.  Then gamed a bit.  I went back out a bit later.  It has cooled to 74 outside already.  Anyway, this time she came to the door.  Hungry.  Good timing.  After feeding her, I noticed the neighbor was by.  Waved and... went to see if he was in a mood to talk.  He was.

He is one of the workingest lads I have met, even from my time.  He had three jobs, if one of them is almost eating him whole... over 90 hours this week?  Can that be right?  I think so.  On that one job.  He works a weekend, here or that, at a hardware store, and does a small night job.  Crazy.  Just in the summer, usually.  In the winter he goes back to a 9 to 5 sort, unless extra somehow becomes available.  Well, plus he helps me?  Yea.  I do feel bad.  So, I... gift him as I may.  Shoes, boots, work clothes, toys, and tools, from time to time.  Well, and help when he can use it.

A bit of conversation.  Finding out what is going on, how life is doing, about work.  Oh, and I loaned him my super-duper cooler.  If he likes it, thinks it works enough better, he may get one himself.  And I have bottled water coming in.  I am offering him some of the perrier, a few cases this year, to try to get him off soda.  As I told him, it's my beer replacement.  It definitely ISN'T beer, or really like it.  But that isn't the whole point.  Even a soda a day is killing you.  Three is a fast track.  And a six pack is brutal on your body.

Anyway.  A good talk.  Then noticed it was down to 74~75.  But that is cooler than in here.  So, on my way in, I opened the place up.  Hmm... I should get up stairs, and open that up too.  Clouding over is helping, in the evening.  Surprised it is still doing that.  Take what you can get.

Ah!  I need to get my hammock set up, and see if I can sleep out there.  Let the house hang.  I have yet to drill the holes and place the eyebolts.  But... tomorrow?  Maybe yet tonight.  Yea.  Oh, and something to eat, if not quite yet.  Meats are thawed, so all I need to do is cook them.  Burger, and other ground meats, for a crumble thing.  Maybe an egg casserole.  And a pork roast is ready.  Those should keep me feed for the week, or nearly.

Later.

People have the stangest notions.

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The other day, on someone's blog, I noticed someone purporting to be a Christian (not sure if Catholic, literally) suggesting that God was going to fix the world, if we just hold the faith.  I about died.  I put a comment in, suggestion God will do no such thing.

What about "This is not my kingdom", does anyone not get.  In the end, after many tribulations, Christ may rule here for a while.  The end times are very uncertain things.  But that will be just... what... closing up shop?  And, only after trials and tribulations which will see most Christians broken or murdered.  The last army of Christ will be remnants of men who were fallen but called and came to Him.  They won't be great Christians who survived, in good will, and turned into an army.  Christians will know what the Jews knew, in Germany.  Heck, they are setting up their demise, here and there, as I write.  If that type will succeed, only God knows.  It might be on His schedule, but it is ultimately left to man to decide when death for the many, most, is at hand.

Believe or not, the greatest evil isn't being done by non-believers, atheists.  It is being done by the churches and men of them.  I am not sure if it is an attempt to bring about the return of Christ, but it is a Judas thing.  They know what they are doing, and mean it.

God is not going to show up and set things right.  If I don't, if you don't, if we don't ignore, resist, live right lives, etc... but even that will not spare us when the time comes.  A martyr, an exile, with nothing, perhaps in our own lands?  This is what will happening.  It is what is being planned, implemented.

But, too, as I said?  Do not let these things concern you.  Pray, unrelentingly.  Pray devoutly.  Live as a saint.  Do not worry.  Live or die for God, without much else being of concern.  Even in torture, look to God.  I am not telling you anything I don't know, do.  I live, at His command.  In spite of decades of physical tortures, hatred poured on my head for any and no reason, and a feeble body which looks strong but is just a shadow.  I don't ask, or suggest, anything I don't, haven't, won't, wouldn't endure.  But don't think God is going to fix Biden, or the current or probably future pope, or... anything.  If you don't fix it, no one will.

I was much more brief.  And, even so, my comment was not allowed to pass.  I... understand.  Most Christians, Catholic or otherwise, aren't ready for even the simple truths.  This world is up to us.  If we fail, no one is going to fix our mess.  Not even so called harsh ones wish to have their weak little friends crushed or bothered with hard truths, I guess.

Can it be fixed?  Can sin be forgiven?  Yes.  But, ultimately, not here.  Amen.

Awake, finally.

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It is not just warm, it is rather hot.  The ac and a fan can make it seem cool, cool enough to use a blanket, but it was 75~76 up there.  It was 83 in this the front room, 74 the next room over, and more like 70~72 in the back areas.  Going back there would just heat the back areas, so that isn't a real solution.

Sleep was good.  A little short.  But given the heat and light?  It's not bad.

Again, blood sugar is very high.  But I... got it to between 58 and 106, and it stayed in that range well after my last meal.  It just doesn't make sense.  Did I forget slow acting?  I don't think I did.  What is going on?  I don't know.  All I can do is keep doing what is supposed to work.

First things first.  Sam wanted out.  Okay.  And, I figured, I'd best get right on chores or I never would.  Only one rabbit needed more... two... water.  The ducks are good, four ducklings remain... getting larger nearly every day.  Could be gone tomorrow.  Oh, and it was just at 84.  Clouds have come in again, if last I looked, not threatening rain at all.

Way too hot.  And I don't have a way to do much more than what I am doing.  I received a strange notification, that I will be receiving $1400?  To amend the $600 up to $2000, as had been promised.  But, after the last debacle, I'll believe it when I see it.  Can't believe anything they say, certainly not when they say it.  I don't count on that money.  Should it ever arrive, I may shop for an bigger ac unit, for somewhere downstairs.  As large as 15 amp will handle.  Then take out a defunct window, creating a shelf and enclosure for it.  One which can be tightened, be removable, and with an empty middle area for insulation?  I could hope.

One downstairs, maybe two upstairs.  Or put the other little one somewhere else in the house, downstairs?  This is a bit warm, for anybody.  Certainly for someone who is just trying to live simply until death do he depart.

I should get to the cats.  Food, water, liter.  I take stuff out for Sam.  Make sure she has water too, and check that occasionally.  As well, I like to at least look in on the other critters, from time to time.  Just... to see.  I really need to make a rabbit corral, for them to romp in from time to time... enough for several at a time... say four with room?  Or craft a critter tractor sort of thing, mobile, caged in, and under to a degree, with a shaded area.  Uhrm, at least when lumber prices aren't being manipulated to the stratosphere.  I'm not buying a damned piece of wood until they stop with the thievery.

Well, some gaming in the other room, until I can cool just a bit anyway.  And wake up.  Then some cleaning in the bathroom and kitchen, plus cooking.  Later.

To 10:30.

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Not going to make it an inch further.  The house is hot, getting hotter.  It just didn't cool much, and couldn't get much of that in.  The ac has been working for a while.  Hopefully that will be cool enough up there.  I'm falling down.  Good morning, day, and night.

Not really all that cool.

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I couldn't sleep.  Too warm, all night.  I did turn the ac on upstairs, but... kept waiting for the world to cool down here... until finally realizing it wasn't going to.  It got to 74, pretty much everywhere, as the low.  Outside was down to, I think 57.  It is up to 64 just now.

Ducks were given water, and feed, a bit after actual dawn.  I sometimes watch them, after feeding them.  It is... entertaining?  Relaxing?  In any case, I found out what happened to the waterer.  The indian runner drake was chasing one of the muscovy hens.  She flew up on the hutch, right about where the waterer had been knocked down.  Now, as to why the waterer got dragged through the mud and muck under the cages?  Either Henry, in his amour or anger probably tackled and attacked it generally.  All speculation, but... it all fits.  Now I know, I am most certain.

Blood sugar has, oddly, been quite good.  After the jump to over 200, I had one dose of insulin, and then had several meals otherwise.  It has remained between 58 as the low (after taking insulin), then as high as 106 before dropping a few points.  I was monitoring a bit closer after it dropped to 58 and I had to eat, and ate several, three I think, times.  Mostly kefir, if also brats and sauerkraut.

I may finish of the last two bratwursts.  Tasty things.  And, given the very extended, again, long day, I don't mind eating a bit more.  If you stay up thirty six hours, I guess you will have more meals.  One way or another.  And I am hungry.  Not... physically, for sure, this time.  If not actually mentally either.  This is... more like a knowledge that I should eat.  Not even a true hunger.  It might be mistaken, but I believe.

I'll get the rabbits in a bit.  I'd actually like to wait until 10:00, and see where the temps are.  If it is sharply warm out there by then, I'd add frozen bottles to the cages.  If not, I might check later.  I'll probably be crashing around noon, though if I can make it to 15:00, or even 17:00, I will.  And, just check on critters through the day.  The mid 90's can be okay, but they can be brutal, too.

Ah, yes, food.  I think I took medicine for this morning.  I'll check as I prep some food.  I have been taking that flawlessly.  Only slow acting insulin gets taken late a bit often.  As my days stretch, memory and function can fail.  And I generally take the slow acting stuff at bedtime, so... forget that bedtime, or night, or whatever, has passed.  Until I remember.

On to checking the vinegar hopeful starts.  I did get the cherry and pear vinegars in and brewing.  I just shake, burp, add water if needed, and taste every other or third day.  I won't be tasting new or old for a few more days.  I'm not sure this stuff will work.  But it's a kick to try something knew.  Not sure I will learn much?  Success or fail, it's... not always about that... solely.  If too, learning isn't always quite so active, fancy, flashy, or such.  It just... means... something inside your mind has changed.  And, perhaps, doing something knew and different, win or lose, is changing something in my mind.

Later, or good night.  And good morning.  

It really isn't cooling off much at all.

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A bit more than a quarter after 01:00, and it is still 65 out there.  No breeze.  Whatever passed through kept on going.  No moisture, I think even the clouds are gone.  Still, it was a nice break.  And cooled things off a good deal ahead of nightfall.  Some rain would have been nice.  But... it really is past that time of year.  We have been fortunate to get some just here lately, before it went hot.

Brats were q'ed.  'Kraut is being heated.  Mix and match.  I was sure my blood sugar would be a bit high.  At 58, last time I checked, I had to eat something.  And, now, I'm having another meal.  Kefir won't quite fill the gap, but it seems to extend so the crash doesn't continue.  It buys me time.  Time enough to get a more substantial food going.

Several meat packages are being thawed.  Burger, ground turkey, ground pork, and a pork sausage, along with the brats which were cooked.  The other meats just weren't close to being thawed.  And, as mentioned, I don't care for meats cooked in the instapot from a frozen state.  They just don't do the best.  You can.  You can do lots of things.  I wouldn't recommend all or even most of what you can do.

So tired.  I am going to try to sleep when finished with dinner.  Hmm, might turn the ac on upstairs.  The windows are open, but...  If I can sleep, all good.  I'll set the alarm for early.  I did get out and check the critters several times through the day.  All is looking well.  But in heat like thins, I am certain things can die easily.

Strangely, the ducks are eating more and the rabbits are eating less.  As well, the rabbits have almost stopped drinking?  Very odd.  Has me worried.  Not a lot I can do about it.  Perhaps it's their way, in the heat... just... don't move as much, or nearly at all?  I don't know.  But it does cause some minor concern, as a noob rabbetier.

Best get to dinner.  Good evening, morning, and night, possibly.

Scared me.

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The last time I went out, before just now, I saw Sam lying, in the grass.  She... looked dead.  I had whistled.  She hadn't stirred.  I really thought, maybe, she was dead.  As I approached, she woke.  Bones and fur, but with her mind and personality intact.  She decided it was too warm out there, and followed me in.  Yes, I keep water, and food, out there for her.  Even for a summer girl, either the speed of the heat increases, this particular day, or something, got to her.  Usually she won't come in.

I went out, just to look and see.  Something seemed... strange.  There had been clouds, floating through, by.  Big ones, some with potential, but far too scattered.  I didn't think much would come of it.  But they are gathering.  Wind has picked up.  The temp has dropped sixteen points, or more, to 80.  I still don't think we will get much, if anything.  But the cooling is appreciated.

With heat now, and electric bills rising in general, I am being very careful with things.  Even turning off one monitor, for the computer, when I play games.  I would shut the machine down, but it takes a while to load.  Same with the router.  I am keeping lights to a minimum.  Even though I have replaced all with low watt led's or such.  They still kick out some heat.  And, they still use some energy.  Fans will go, as heavily and often as needed, same with ac.  If, generally, I don't seem to need it while awake.  Just to sleep.  Some complain that ac's are loud.  Exactly!  They drown out all other noises!  I can hear trains, and trucks, cars, and motorcycles, from half the valley away.  Usually can sleep with that anyway, but would rather not.

Oh... I was filling my glucose/sugar tab tubes.  The smell!  I can smell those like an animal can smell blood.  I might even get an insulin response just from the smell, as I do with artificial sweeteners, just from the taste in spite of having no carbs!  Oh... I... have to be careful.  Addicted, it's the only word for it.  

With it cooler outside, than in the front room, I have the door open.  An experiment.  Not sure if that will end up heating the whole house, or cooling this room.  It had gotten to 83, here near the computer.  Nope, looks like it started to heat the place.  Now I know.  No matter what common sense says, sometimes you just gotta try the peculiar.  You never know, you really don't.  Like the door, helping the upstairs stay much cooler, open rather than closed.  Very peculiar, as cold air falls.  And, when I have tried it before, it failed.  If I may have had the vent to the room below closed?  All I know is... what should make sense that way, didn't.  This time.  It did for the front door, however.  Bleh.  Live and learn.

I am beginning to feel like a steam trout though.  If... you or I could imagine what such might feel like, if it could feel.  A lot of if's and imagining.  Later.

Done...

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Chores, cats, and breakfast, anyway.

It was brutal out there, for me.  And, when I walked out, I say Kay... my momma duck... all alone.  My face just crumpled.  But, then, from under the extra rabbit hutch, out popped the ducklings.  Four, still, for now.  Fed, watered, and otherwise left alone.

The rabbits look to be in good shape.  Food was gone in two of the pens, oddly.  Still, so be it.  Water wasn't even needed with all.  The walk out to the farther outbuilding was oppressive.  Just the heat.  It is bad enough in this room, at 82.  Out there is just plain nasty at 96.  At least I have the more interior of the house.  Well, and ac is doing fairly well, so far.  And that was just one unit.  Though, to be honest, I am not sure if two units do better, or somehow fight each other?  I just don't know.

Something smells heavily of ammonia.  I can't locate the smell.  If I had a tom cat, I would suspect him.  Do girl cats ever go territorial, indoors?  Perhaps I am hitting ketosis, and it is just my breath I am smelling... especially with the fans moving the air?  It is actually possible.  I tend to go back to ketosis pretty quickly.  Sometimes a carb load doesn't even throw me fully out of keto, if it does set me back to the initial stages... which does produce that bad breath, body odor, and such.  It's a strange diet.  Oh, and if going into ketosis, and it's warmer out?  That seems to exacerbate the more negative aspects.  Just... warning you.

I am playing a console game.  For now it's what I can do.  A kefir with it.  Should have taken a dose of insulin too.  Oh well, next time.  Though I am still hungry... if I can't quite tell if it is physical or mental... it's faint, but nagging.  I think I'll set a timer, for say two hours from now... which would be three hours after breakfast, then have something.

Ugh.  I need to pull meat to thaw.  Bratwursts, chicken, and a roast.  They don't need to that, fully.  Or at all.  But I prefer them thawed.  The instapot only produces so-so food when from frozen.  From thawed it seems to do a better job... to my way of thinking.  As well, I will begin a jar of cherry vinegar... starting with a pack of those dried cherries I sampled.  

One thing about that?  I needed a lot less fruit than I thought.  First, it swells... bigly.  Second, you just need about the bottom third, of the swelled fruit.  Which, means, about a quarter to half cup of dried fruit per quart?  Give or take... no more than the bottom eighth, or so, of raisins or similar.  I also add a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, with mother, which has been shaken to add some of the mother.  Just a starter.

So far, no mold.  Though, one thing I would recommend... or not depending on how you see things?  Don't drink right out of the jar!  Gah!  People freak me out.  I almost did it too, though.  Until I realized what a huge problem that is.  No, just get a small cup.  Pour your sample into that.  Then rinse it after use and keep it right there.  Easy.

It was started at the 25th.  In theory, it will be done the 24th.  If I start the cherry vinegar today, It will be done the 4th of July.  What a kick.  Oh, I have some other fruit... pear I think.  Might as well start both of those today.  Will they be any good?  Will I like them?  Will I even find a use for them?  One thing at a time.  If nothing else, in these small amounts, I could use them for occasional vinaigrettes and other dressings, being that they can last years.

Well... on to... back to... gaming?  Bleh.  I want to work.  Don't have it in me, at the moment.  Later.

96, in the shade.

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Must be acclimating.  Right after waking, I opened up to check for packages.  Expecting some, dried fruit, for different types of vinegar starts.  They were here, as with a few other items.  But, I wasn't shocked by the heat.  Oh, noticed, but not blasted by it.

Upstairs, near me, was 70!  With one ac and the fan?  Right.  But the door to the downstairs... I left it open.  I had thought that was a failure thing, but I must have gotten that wrong?  I thought I would only be sleeping for a few hours, wanted to only be asleep for a few hours.  So, I was hoping the girls would help wake me up.

As it turns out, neither furry feline nor buzzing clock alarms could wake the sleeping giant.  Down between 06:00 and 07:00, if I can't quite remember exactly when, up at 14:00.  Between getting dressed, getting the packages from the front stoop, putting those up, and getting the machine on and working, it is already 14:37?  Time does fly when the world is a fog.

Two of the razor/toothbrush/etc hole/weights showed today.  I wasn't sure about size, or function.  They are much bigger than they appear on the site.  Not so much as to be a problem.  They seem to work quite well.  I have a razor is one, a toothbrush in the other.  I will use the next one for another razor, and still have more room and clearance where the old stand had been!  I am quite pleased.

Another little thing is a steam channeler, for my instapot.  I have bumped the button release a few times.  And, while I can handle boiling water?  I... don't do well with pressurized steam.  I still have a red mark from that.  This thing only covers the main steam vent, but if set right, it will block an arm from accidently getting to, and releasing, the button quick release.  I can only imagine what that steam would do to a real human!

This front room is pretty warm, 78 to start.  It will get warmer.  The living room is reading 74, if feeling cooler.  And t he kitchen back is probably 72.  Not too terrible, yet.  Especially at 96 outside.  And, this year, it looks like a hot June through August.  But water should hold, unless they dump it to Cali.

Blood sugar was better, this "morning", at 146 fasting.  Still not perfect, but a lot better than in the 200's.  Now to... be very careful with food.  I did try some of the dried fruit, after testing, but three pieces.  I wasn't willing to chance more.  Even that is a bit of a risk.  I'll have a kefir meal shortly, which should help.  Perhaps a fatted, unsweetened, coffee after.  Almost getting used to that latter.  It's a bit flat, but... at least I know it won't blast blood sugar.

Among else, I need to get that new heart medicine, and get that rolling.

Oh, chores, soon.  But I have to wake.  Some days I can hit it, immediately.  Some days I just can't.  I do what I can, sometimes I can push that.  Sometimes... I can't even do the seemingly simple.  Today is a hard day, for no good reason.  Mostly painless, but something, inside, is crippled or crippling.  So, while I wait to unlock?  I pray.  It seems a lessor thing, if I think it is the greater of things.  Amen.

Well... on to waking.  Be well, climate adjusted, and stay kind, sweet, brutal, or whatever else your station demands.  But pray, even while cooking, tending, or killing.  Let God be your guide, man be your brother or sister, and the world be something you live in but not in it's... his... her... service.  Amen, again.