My parents are in their mid to late 70s, so...stuff. It's all borrowed time from here on in.

If I had to decarb I'd be a crabby little camper. Thank god for oatmeal. I hope to try and make almond oat cookies later today. Not now--I'm exhausted from crocodile nightmares, and I need to conserve my energy in case I have to chase nurses down today, or even read in a new one.

I was very wobbly on my feet yesterday, and it took me a while to work out why. I've decided that as well as not using a cane at my house, I just won't use it in houses period. It's been two months since I've done a flight of stairs, even with a cane. In the end, someone had to walk the stairs below me in case I fell.

That shit is hard, yo. And I am walking like my mother.

I have to keep in mind that I'm at the tail end of the harvest, because I've basically got all of my non-huge tuppers in the freezer right now. But it will feed me through the winter!

But it will feed me through the winter!

I hope you have good luck in the hunt so you can stock up on venison too. Vegetables only get you so far.

Okay, time for the morning to begin. Let's get some shit done.

Yeah, that's the problem with mini, knowing when to stop.

brenda, it was a package of "recipe" bacon bits (you can cook and crumble a pound of bacon if you aren't as lazy as I am) and 5 oz of blue cheese crumbles divided between 6 jumbo muffin liners, then 4 eggs, 3/4 cup bloody mary mix and 3/4 cup heavy cream mixed together into more or less a custard and poured over the bacon and cheese. Baked at 400-450 (my oven knobs are not accurate) for 30-45 minutes (I decided it wasn't brown enough after 30 minutes and reset the timer but I'm not sure for how long). Yummy, but messy and greasy. They get a little easier to eat when they're cold and, um, congealed, I think.

Something along those lines with, you know, flour would probably be delicious.

Good luck with the nurse of the day, § ita §

Y'all are making me hungry. Now I want breakfast.

I'm torn between breaking open the jar of grape jelly I got from my favorite farm (with the super-yummy Concord grapes) for a sandwich now or keeping it sealed until mid-winter when there's not much fresh fruit available. I should just go the cheap take-out route for lunch today, shouldn't I?

If you’ve ever had coffee and felt like it didn’t work, you’ve run into the field of chronopharmacology >[link]

Now I want those muffins.

I hope you have good luck in the hunt so you can stock up on venison too.

Luckily, I actually live in a modern city. Although my mother did get some venison from a neighbor last year!

I don't know, Matt. Seize the grape has a nice ring to it, but then you could be a grasshopper with no jelly.

I live in a modern city, too, but you could bag a deer (with your car) on any variety of four-lane through streets around here this time of year.