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desperance ([personal profile] desperance) wrote2015-01-31 03:42 pm

The daily round, and round, and round again

Several are the pounds of pork back fat that I have sliced, derinded (deround?) and coarsely ground (grinded?):

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(Look! It has a smeared halo of special effects! Praise the Lard, and pass the ammunition!)

Now I have set 'em all in the oven to render, and the rinds to crisp and pop:

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(Look! A Diet of Worms! Truly is this day blessed with religious imagery...)

And now my own unfatty non-rindworthy back is aching badly, on account of effort and old hurts rewoken by poorly ergonomic workspace (grinder far too low, since you ask: horrid bending; I am too old to bend easily or well). I feel I have earned this beer, these ibuprofens, this sit in the sunshine with a book. (But poor Jack has just been captured! By the Americans! He is most cast down and low in his spirits...)