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Day 65

Posted 5/15/2020

Day SixtyFive: So morning came... Didn't want to have anything to do with it... felt like a bag of dirt, sore tired... I think I caught Fibromyalgie. I got better by noon. Woke up again and had Lunch. Heather was working in the kitchen on something... low and behold it was bagels we can eat... based kinda off the pizza crust recipe we like... they were wonderful... we split one and tested it (we were wondering if we can cut and eat them warm out of the oven (with some keto stuff that's a bad idea)... the bagels though were fine so we both then had a full one to ourselves... loaded with butter and cream cheese... OK another keeper recipe. Long story short, I was going to go the dump today with the garbage bags from cleaning out the basement... plan was to fix the trailer and load the bags on it just in case the dump wasn't open during the long weekend (the alternative was putting them in the back of the Subaru but I didn't want to get there, find it closed and then need to bring it home and unload the car, the trailer they could just sit there until it eventually opened so that made more sense). <Glad this is the short version> Now the trailer needs a light fixed (I have the kit to just rewire the whole trailer with new lights) and a wheel needs replace (we do have a new spare), so it's a doable job... HOWEVER, here is where things fall apart... I can't find the harness I bought to hook up the lights when towing it with the Subaru, which is the only other car currently working... this lead to needing to fix the Mazda... Serpentine belt... got it yesterday, not that big of a job. So I had to get to it from inside the wheel-well, the plastic and clips down there are a mess... (One of the things I didn't like about the Mazda: broken and falling off <OR> seized on and breaks when you need to remove it - those are the only 2 states that any of the plastic parts under the car can be in). Put the car on the battery charger and waited... the dump closed, the trailer is still fucked. Argh. Heather and Lawson went next door and tossed the ball around in the back yard and we stood around and talked to the neighbours for a while. The wife must have been talking to them about our Broken BBQ before I got there because at one point they offered the use of their BBQ if we needed it this weekend. While it's warm enough to be out side I should actually look into fixing ours... I did get enough of the garage cleaned the other day that I can get to the tools I need to do that job finally. I took some eyeball measurement of the old decaying BBQ and headed to the garage. A 2 foot long piece of sheet metal with a few bends this way and a few bends that way should do me... I was real close first time back to the BBQ... almost like I've done this before... took it back to the garage for a trim and slight adjustment on one of the bends (left it long so it wasn't too short and not enough bend because it's easy to add bend but not so easy to straighten)... anyway it works now. Fired it up, got it to 600 deg and burnt off some of the sitting too long in the snow crap and it seems to be ready for use. Now all I need is the large patch of ice in front of it to melt. Heather made 2 meals for Dinner... Lawson isn't overly fond of our Fried "rice" or Shrimp so he got Corn on the cob, Chicken and Potatoes, all of which he really enjoys. Our meal I enjoyed much more than the chicken, deep fried shrimp breaded with coconut crust... oh how I love those yummy little morsels of... MMmmmm.... sorry where was I, oh yes dinner. I went back for seconds and polished off everything, no left overs for tomorrow. We had some coconut flour, shreds and cajun spice left over and a bow with egg stuff in it... I warmed the oil back up and made balls out of the left over stuff... now they say you can't make 'hushpuppies' in a deep fryer with any of this Keto stuff... it normally just blows apart and makes a mess of the oil HOWEVER, I managed to pull it off... this will be something I will play with to try and figure out why mine worked and others have failed (trust me I've tried before and thought it was impossible, failed in an epic way, made a hell of a mess but...), I now know this is possible because I have 6 pristine fried doughy balls sitting on the counter. Watched a movie, didn't have the pizza and wings tonight but the shrimp made up for it (couldn't find wings in the store this week, hence the chicken drumsticks the boy had)... speaking of the boy, he headed to the basement to play with his friends... the movie was the Wrong Missy or something like that, Funny, not good for the whole family but worth watching. Packed it in afterwards... too tired to even write this.