We awakened to a pretty pinkish heaven this morning.
Don't last fooled past times these calm skies. We're heading over to Cape Disappointment this morning, as well as we're expecting pelting pretty much 100% of the time. Oh well. We've had about lovely conditions for RVing this year, as well as you lot can't larn what you lot desire all the time. (Or tin you?)
My kickoff business yesterday morning time was to larn the rising breadstuff into this circular banneton for its minute rise. This is my minute elbow grease at this bread, the kickoff existence nearly 2 years ago. When I made it the kickoff time, I noted that the oven temperature inwards the recipe was laid equally good high, as well as thus I lowered the temperature this fourth dimension around. What I didn't regime notation (maybe from lack of sense at the time) was that it's a really moisture as well as floppy dough. I kept putting flour on the board, my hands, as well as the dough itself to proceed it from sticking. I was trying to cast it into a boule, but it was much equally good floppy for that. Finally, amongst the purpose of my hands as well as a board scraper, I managed to larn it into the banneton without equally good much damage. It was the consistency of pudding.
Phew! Now I've noted to cut down the H2O inwards the recipe as well as assay out i time again about other time.
So, directly it needed about other hr to rising earlier I was ready to plough on the oven for preheating. I used the fourth dimension to automobile stitch the binding onto The More the Marinarier. I'm taking it amongst us thus that I tin exercise the hand-sewing piece we're away.
And at that topographic point was enough of fourth dimension for showering as well as getting dressed. The breadstuff hadn't risen much when I checked it again, as well as thus I gave it about other one-half hour. Still, non much action, but it had risen a little.
I went ahead as well as preheated the oven, as well as it takes a piece to preheat the oven as well as the Dutch oven I purpose for baking to 475°. I'd say the breadstuff was given a total 2 hours to rising earlier it went into the oven. My fingers were crossed for about proficient oven spring. When it came out of the oven it was beautiful!
From there, it was best to function out the identify for a piece to avoid cutting into it correct thus as well as there. There was withal sourdough materials going on inside, as well as thus the prudent bakery volition hold off for at to the lowest degree an hour.
We had about errands to run, as well as nosotros dropped off that unruly Big Bertha at the store for repair...hopefully, but non optimistically. Mike helped me bear the tub o' lard into the shop. I'd rehearsed what I wanted to say thus that I could avoid (for once) throwing myself on the flooring three-year-old means as well as kicking as well as screaming well-nigh how THEY HAVEN'T YET FIXED THIS PROBLEM EVEN THOUGH IT'S BEEN IN THE SHOP EVERY YEAR SINCE THE BEGINNING OF TIME!!!!! No, I didn't exercise that. I used my best grinning human face upwardly as well as proficient sense of humour to explicate (AGAIN) the problem.
Mike stood past times quietly until he piped upwardly amongst this: "And if you lot can't guarantee 100% that you've fixed the problem, thus brand us a screaming bargain on a trade-in for a novel one." (Holy $$hit!) Well. It would last an understatement to say I wasn't expecting that, but at that topographic point you lot go. Straight from the horse's mouth. I wishing I'd had my recorder on. So anyway...that happened. I don't know well-nigh you, but I'm on the border of my topographic point now.
When nosotros picked upwardly the post service on the means home, I establish yet about other underground of needles had been delivered. My friend Wendy as well as I made certain I got the correct ones this time. They're packaged past times Primitive Gatherings.
Sold past times the Fat Quarter Shop...and at that topographic point you lot go. Size 24 Embroidery Needles.
As it turns out, the in conclusion ones I got were for cross-stitch...and what exercise I know? Cross-stitch as well as embroidery seem similar the same affair to me...and I've done both...but evidently not. Probably I've done my cross-stitch projects amongst an embroidery needle. It amazes me how I larn through the solar daytime sometimes.
And then...it was security to cutting the bread. It was a petty apartment equally loaves go, but really pretty inside, as well as oh, thus yummy. I mean value this volition warm our innards on our rainy RVing trip to come. I made certain to pack a total jounce of Carrot Cake Jam. It's going to last thus proficient toasted amongst butta as well as jam.
So, Mr. Smitty went missing for well-nigh an hr yesterday afternoon. I looked for him all over the house, upstairs as well as downstairs, inwards closets as well as cupboards, as well as inwards every room, as well as couldn't honor him. We called as well as called outside, as well as permit me tell you, I was getting worried. Mike finally said, "He has to last inwards the house." And thus he went to the far side of our invitee room. The bed inwards the guestroom is a makeshift storage facility amongst blankets as well as tablecloths stored underneath on the farthest side inwards the deepest reaches of the farthest corner of the house. Looking underneath, he saw this.
Doesn't he aspect demure at that topographic point amongst his paws all folded up? That ruby reindeer tablecloth is i Mike's grandmother gave us when we'd been married well-nigh 2 years...as if nosotros needed such a affair at that betoken inwards our lives. She was i of those elderly people who started giving away her treasures earlier she died thus that she could run into our happy faces upon receiving them. Yeah...we were actually happy well-nigh that tablecloth. (Not.) I told you lot I needed to purge, didn't I?
So anyway...I approximate Smitty is tired of Halloween as well as ready to motility on to Christmas because the tablecloth was packed inwards a box. Apparently, he got it out himself as well as decided it would brand an fantabulous napping spot. (You don't suppose it was Molly's poltergeist, exercise you?) He stayed at that topographic point for about other hr or thus earlier deciding to grace us amongst his presence.
So I conduct maintain merely i to a greater extent than affair to tell you lot earlier signing off. I tried a bully recipe in conclusion nighttime for a Slow Cooker French Dip Sandwich. The recipe is from Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Taste of Home, which was my mother's favorite cooking magazine. You brownish the onions inwards a skillet, although you lot could in all probability larn away amongst adding them to the irksome cooker raw. Then you lot add together a bottom circular roast as well as about other mixings...water, an envelope of Lipton onion soup mix, as well as a twain of other things. Then it cooks on depression all solar daytime as well as you lot conduct maintain yourself about really tasty sandwiches as well as dipping soup past times day's end.
We had about sweetness potatoes from our in conclusion CSA share, as well as thus I made those upwardly into this Sweet Potato Salad amongst Spicy Peanut Dressing. It's i of my favorite ways to purpose sweetness potatoes. The dressing is delicious, as well as it also uses carbohydrate snap peas as well as sliced dark-green onions. So good. I worried that "French" Dip sandwiches mightiness non larn amongst this "Asian" inspired salad, but my worries were for naught. The 2 dishes played good together. We're taking the leftovers along for dinner piece we're RVing.
So that brings me to today. There's merely a petty packing to exercise earlier nosotros conduct maintain off. The nutrient is packed, but I postulate to banking concern represent the province of affairs amongst my clothes as well as toiletries. Most of that materials lives inwards the RV total time, thus there's never much to exercise later the nutrient is in. I don't know if I'll last blogging piece we're gone. As always, it depends on whether I conduct maintain network access as well as whether I conduct maintain anything to say. With several rainy days ahead, that is highly doubtful. So anyway...you mightiness run into me as well as you lot mightiness not. If not, I'll last correct dorsum hither on Saturday. There should last a twain of finishes past times then.
Have a Happy Halloween! I'm non sure, but I mean value this mightiness last Cinderella's RV.
