Day 762:<\/p>\n
Finally got too cold to sleep any longer. One disadvantage of caves is they’re always damp and cool and when you’re in bed with a concussion for days, it’s hard to tend the fire.<\/p>\n
Got up, made a fire, and boiled some water for tea.<\/p>\n
It’s not real tea, it’s boiled flower petals, which is as close as I can get to tea in this place of grass and random plants. I tried making tea out of the grass \u00a0a while ago and that was definitely not tea. I tried boiling some of the vines out on the swamp trees and not only was that not tea, it was a great way to cure constipation — and not one I want to repeat, \u00a0lest it builds up in the blood.<\/p>\n
Boiling flower petals has been more successful. Dandelion tea is better than the white flower tea. The rose tea is the best but the roses are so rare I don’t want to risk using them all up all the time.<\/p>\n
Anyway, hot tea, a little while out on the front lawn to get some indirect sunlight, and then pumpkin soup because talking and chewing make my head hurt.<\/p>\n
Maybe tomorrow I’ll feel good enough to go pick the pumpkins in the patch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Day 762: Finally got too cold to sleep any longer. One disadvantage of caves is they’re always damp and cool and when you’re in bed with a concussion for days, it’s hard to tend the fire. Got up, made a fire, and boiled some water for tea. It’s not real tea, it’s boiled flower petals, … <\/p>\n