No-knead bread
to California where my sister Geri made her first loaf. I admit I’m a little jealous because a) her loaf looks like it rose better than mine (and there were no tales of dough sticking to anything) and b) her kitchen is sunny enough that she can take good pictures in November without additional lighting.
But there was one catastrophe: not liking the 450 degree oven, the button on her glass lid melted. Oops.
Too hot to handle
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I’ve been ankle deep in old financial statements, business records, tax receipts, canceled checks and account statements for most of the day as we work on cleaning out the storage locker. My hands are dried out and rough from sorting through what needs to stay and what can be shredded. I’m up to 5 boxes of shredables so far and I’m still not done. We also took a load of miscellaneous treasures to the thrift store so someone else could store them for a while. We may not be able to completely get rid of the locker due to some burgeoning resistance from my helper but we should at least be able to downsize.
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Finally! I did something about the banner, replacing this summer’s rose with a stylized (meaning out-of- focus) shot of a shrub on my nephew’s farm. Don’t know what the shrub is but it was full of these berries. I feel so much better now that I’m in tune with the season.
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Now that I’ve changed the banner (and updated some links too) my next maintenance chore is to figure out why my pictures don’t center even though I tell them to center, the code says they’re centered, the preview mode says they’re centered, but they insist upon sliding to the left when the post goes live. Who says technology is our friend?
