Chapter 29 Dog Supplies and Outdoor Work
Then I went to the supermarket and bought five large bags of diaper pads.
Finally, I need to buy more meat. Since I'll have two more dogs eating with me in the future, I'll need to stock up on meat.
As soon as you enter, you see a huge pile of pork bones with meat on the owner's cutting board. Pork bone soup is incredibly nutritious.
Stewed radish or stewed corn is so delicious it'll make your eyebrows fall off! Just thinking about it made me buy it all. After weighing it, it came to 54 jin (27.5 catties).
"Boss, do you have any other bones?" Thinking that after they finished eating the meat bones, they could use them as teething toys, I decided to buy a few more.
"Do you want some beef bones? The meat on them has been removed too thoroughly."
The boss pointed to the ground, where a huge pile of beef bones lay, with thin slices of red meat covering the bones.
When I was little, my mother often stewed these kinds of pork bones with very little meat for me. The purpose was not to eat the meat, but to gnaw on the bones.
My daughter and I would sit there chatting and gnawing on a big pot of beef bones. Although there wasn't much meat, it tasted incredibly delicious, and sometimes we could gnaw on them for two hours straight.
How much per pound?
"This skeleton doesn't have much meat, it's 8 yuan per jin, but if you can take all of them, 6 yuan each is fine."
"Fine, give them all to me."
A 100-pound animal has bones, including a spine, ribs, and club bones.
Although people usually like to eat ribs, this is the part they hate the most when buying bones, because ribs are smooth and the meat on them can be removed very cleanly, while the spine has the most meat.
The shop owner rounded down the price and only charged me 1000 yuan.
Thinking that there aren't many clothes and dog beds for the dogs, I'm afraid I'll have to make them myself in the future.
Thinking of this, I went to a tailor shop called Curtain World.
This place sells all kinds of fabrics, bedding, and curtains, and it's quite well-known in the small town.
I bought 20 small cotton pads, which I can use as menstrual pads for myself, or I can cut them up to make pads or clothes for my dog.
Then I picked out 10 kinds of fabric, each piece was 2 meters x 3 meters, and finally I bought two sacks of cotton.
These fabrics and cotton can be used to make clothes and toys for dogs, as well as curtains and tablecloths; they have many uses.
I also bought an extra special fabric, a faux leather pewter fabric.
The leather fabric is waterproof, windproof, and warm. It can be used as a windproof cotton jacket for dogs or as a tablecloth.
Most importantly, once the leather on the sofa has peeled and aged, you can simply nail on the new leather upholstery and you'll have a brand new sofa.
So I bought a lot, three meters wide and 50 meters long.
While wandering around to see what else was there, I suddenly spotted the cotton door curtain, which I had planned to include long ago but had completely forgotten about.
I didn't dare buy anything else, so I obediently bought cotton door curtains.
There's a big difference between having curtains when entering and exiting the house and not having them. Curtains block out some of the cold air, making the room much warmer.
So they added eight more cotton curtains.
Aside from the money I saved for gas, I spent all the rest of my money.
The small truck, fully fueled, headed home with a load of goods.
I secretly made up my mind that this was truly the last time I would go out to buy things. I had already stockpiled enough, and I shouldn't stockpile any more.
When I got home, I checked on the chicks and the dog. They were still alive, which was great.
After feeding the chicks and the puppy, the temperature inside the house got colder and colder, so I quickly gathered firewood to heat the kang (a heated brick bed).
There's still a lot of stuff left to unload, and I don't want to waste time cooking for myself; I'll just have instant noodles for dinner.
First, take out a doghouse, a pack of pee pads, and a cotton pad. Then, put five cans of goat milk powder in the wardrobe compartment in the east room.
The remaining fabric and dog supplies were put in the basement. Since some kitchen utensils were taken out earlier, the basement can now hold the fabric.
Then quickly hang cotton curtains on the front door, back door, east room door, and west room door, and save the rest for later use.
It wasn't dark yet, and I wanted to process the beef bones.
I went to the toolbox and got a cleaver. I chopped the spine and ribs into palm-sized pieces. Since there was marrow inside the bones, I didn't chop them open.
It took almost an hour to chop up all the beef bones.
Then they packed it into large plastic bags and placed it in the back room along with the pig bones on a small cart.
After sweeping up the bone fragments in the yard, I prepared to eat dinner.
Add a braised egg and a sausage to instant noodles, and you have a simple and convenient dinner.
The indoor temperature gradually rose, with the thermometer showing 23 degrees Celsius, while the outdoor temperature had already reached -6 degrees Celsius.
I can't remember exactly when the blizzard started around mid-July, but it's almost July 10th.
Once July 10th passes, it means that a blizzard could arrive at any time, and an extreme cold apocalypse is just around the corner.
I want to finish everything that needs to be done outdoors before the blizzard arrives.
The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is boil water to make milk powder for the dog, and then feed the chicks.
The second thing was to heat the kang (a traditional heated bed).
If you don't want to make breakfast, just take out a bag of frozen xiaolongbao and steam them directly in the pot.
After finishing my xiaolongbao (soup dumplings), I began a full day of outdoor work.
They put on thick military overcoats, cotton gloves, and cotton hats, fully arming themselves.
I pushed ten bags of wood blocks in a wheelbarrow and piled them inside the windshield by the door. (The windshield is a small structure installed outside the door, also known as a sunroom.)
I also pushed out a bag each of cornmeal, chicken feed, and rice bran, and put them in the windshield as well.
These are preparations made in preparation for a blizzard, so that even if the snowstorm is too strong to go outside, one can survive for a long time inside the house.
Then he took out two small tree stumps he had brought from the processing plant, along with other pieces of wood, and prepared to make some practical little gadgets before the blizzard arrived.
First, carefully sand the two small tree stumps smooth with a sander, then apply wood varnish and set them aside to dry. Once dry, they will become two high-quality wooden stools.
Buying furniture in a furniture store would cost at least two or three hundred yuan.
He then picked up the chainsaw and cut the thick wooden stick into one-centimeter-thick pieces. He only cut five pieces, then applied wood varnish and set them aside to dry.
After drying, they become stylish and practical coasters.
I also plan to make a few placemats, so I used a custom-made small round tree trunk, about two centimeters thick, and cut it into three pieces. I then painted them with wood varnish and set them aside.
If I finish this little bit of work, the whole morning will be gone.
The indoor temperature has dropped somewhat, but the fire is still burning in the morning.
No need to heat the kang (heated brick bed); just add a honeycomb briquette.
While the electric cooker was still working, I used the packaged mala tang soup base to cook a deluxe mala tang.
It includes sausage knots, various meatballs, vegetables, and a piece of instant noodles; the taste is just as good as in the restaurant.
In the afternoon, I plan to make several large wooden crates.
Since all 10 cabinets in the back room were full, but there was still a lot of empty space, I decided to make a few large wooden crates to use as freezer containers.
Large wooden crates are easy to make; simply use a one-square-meter wooden board as the base and nail 30-centimeter-wide wooden boards around the sides.
It's just a wooden box with a base area of one square meter and a height of 30 centimeters.
You can make several and stack them all together, which saves space, keeps things neat and clean, and is hygienic.
I made 15 in one afternoon, which felt like enough.
Wooden crates are used to store small, easily arranged food items, while shelves are used to store large, difficult-to-arrange items.
Once all the vegetables are processed, I plan to set aside a day specifically for organizing the food in the back room.
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