Quartus is 8 weeks old now, en route to his new home at our quinta. Very calm, sovereign little fellow.

Por supuesto. Pero yo iría más allá después de ver cómo nuestro multimillonario local corrompió a los médicos del sistema público portugués haciéndoles trabajar en el hospital de su empresa privada mientras cobraban un sueldo público.

She's pretty left, but yeah.

Una buena idea. No quiero servicios sanitarios que no estén al alcance de todos, independientemente de su situación o circunstancias económicas.

Well, that describes my companheira rather well, though in her professional life she took things a lot farther, placing herself at risk to oppose powerful private and public interests to defend the right of everyone to receive the care they needed without regard to social status or wealth.

Patinho's mother heard him following me around and began to call for him. So I let him meet his mother and siblings for the first time. The encounter started well, but after a few minutes the Muscovy hen tried to kill him. As she did right after his assisted hatching.

Regarding how long to water-cure olives: I have found that it also depends on how much excess water is in the bottle. A liter of olives in a 5 liter bottle was done debittering two days ago, but a full bottle collected at the same time from the same tree is still too bitter.

To be fair, I could probably injure someone badly hitting them with my German-style sourdough rye. The nuclear option of breadly weapons would surely qualify as a felony, unlike that squishy pap from Subway.

Dershowitz of Epstein files fame hasn't had an intact brain for a long while.

Note that I wear a metal mesh butchering glove on the hand that pushes olives into the cutting tube. Otherwise I end up with small fingertip cuts most of the time.

Now it's time for water-curing some riper olives, mostly black. These are pushed through a scoring tube that makes cuts to help ferment and leach out the bitter oleuropein. Today I started about 8 liters of this type of olives.

Tasting the water curing cracked green olives, I found them sufficiently debittered after a week of fermentation and daily water changes, so I bottled them with a brine solution of 122 g salt and 135 ml white wine vinegar per liter of water and some bay leaves. They'll keep in the fridge for 1 year.

The siblings of the house duckling. They are much stronger.

I'm immensely grateful to have a partner who believes in rescues and the right to a dignified life for every creature. One such is a one-legged Indian Runner Duck who has his own safe place that still enables social interaction with the rest of the mixed flock.