4/14/2020
(Above: Oak-smoked short ribs, homemade BBQ sauce, and cabbage salad. A combination of utmost resplendence and decadence.)
Active Summary: Today I woke up, participated in the daily calisthenic exercises, wrote for a little while, and then checked the beef pasture with Padre. This was ensued by my starting short ribs in the smoker and then by writing for another hour as it began to rain outside. After that, I returned the damp outdoors where I put together a Master Blend order in the freezer room before fastening the beginnings of a PVC frame around the southern window.
Madre returned from a town trip shortly afterward and gave me the ingredients for homemade barbecue sauce. I combined all the ingredients (found here), heated them in a sauce pan, and then chilled the sauce by stirring it in a metal bowl which itself was immersed in icewater. By the time lunch came around, I had an ample amount of thick and refreshingly cool BBQ sauce.
(8:01 PM Update:) After a lunch of BBQ-drenched short rib and cabbage salad I returned to Jacobhouse where I researched more carbonation device equipment and learned that the pump I ordered may have needlessly complicated matters (will have to see when it gets here). This was ensued by cattle-related activities where I helped: feed / catch bovines, checked the field for ailing calves, and aided in the tagging and genetic testing of two newborn Wagyus.
After this, Padre and I put together the Segway shed with myself putting together the final portion as he tended to a broken waterline out in the Holstein herd. When the waterline was fixed and the shed was complete, I returned to Jacobhouse where I quickly put together a kale salad and a dessert for after dinner. Images below:
A segway shed after sunset. (It was a somewhat lengthy afternoon.) 
Looking into the Master Blend freezer room from a dusky outdoors. 
Looking out upon the dusky outdoors from the Master Blend freezer room. 
A delightful dinner of sushi and kale-salad. 
And a dessert of ultra-fudgy brownie and dark-cherry icecream. 
A closer look at that dessert.
Final Note: The three primary tasks next on the agenda are: more work on the southern window frame, assembling a small shed for our (Padre’s and my) Segways, and fabricating a few cages for the many growing tomato plants. (8:01 PM Update:) The small shed is complete, but tomorrow morning I will be going on a short ride to pick up some freshly laid eggs (from Rachael, the egg lady*) for a Master Blend customer.
*No. They were laid by the chickens. Not the egg lady herself.
Nice to know they weren’t human eggs…