This morning I got up early and began making masks but when I came back to the house for breakfast, Vince said “I think you need to make bread today!” One thing leads to another around here . . everywhere I suppose.
I have wheat that’s been arriving and it’s making it hard to walk in the house so Vince washed out 7 buckets. Once they were dry, I wiped them down with alcohol and started transferring wheat from bags to buckets. So far, I’ve done the hard white and soft white and only have rye left to transfer. It isn’t a big deal to transfer it but it comes in 50 pound bags and I can’t lift those so I scoop it up and dump it in the buckets til the bag is light enough that I can lift and pour the wheat out. Vince will take the buckets to the sewing room next time he has a minute. Then, we’ll be able to walk in the house but not in the sewing room! That’s ok . . extra wheat makes me feel secure.
CJ shared her recipe for whole wheat bread made with hard white wheat so I’m trying that today. I trust CJ completely with recipes and I’d make anything she’s shared but my real test for bread dough is this: How well does it work for cinnamon rolls? I was thinking that whole wheat cinnamon rolls sound almost healthy so I made one loaf of bread that used a bit more than half the dough and used the rest for cinnamon rolls.
We’ll see how that works. I saw how CJ’s bread looks so if mine turns out half as good as hers, the bread and the cinnamon rolls will be amazing.
Now I have to go out and plant peppers. Vince just put together 12 more buckets for me. I haven’t checked the real weather but the thermostat on our air conditioner says it’s 90 degrees out there and it’s humid too. I am not going to complain about summer and I’m going to pray the heat kills the virus!
Once the peppers are planted, I’m going to come in, check on the bread dough, then go make more masks. A woman’s work is never done, right? Seriously, this all seems like playing to me and I’m thankful always for my life and the things I get to do.
Stephani in N. TX says
Almost healthy!! Ha-ha! I’m gaining every day.
Sandi B says
Me, too!! I’m making myself for a piece of fruit or vegetable instead of the cookies and candy. I’ve regained 5 pounds already. Yikes!!!
Judy Laquidara says
We are now out of fresh fruit again. We have some freeze dried and we have some frozen but I’m so ready for good, fresh fruit but I’m also thinking about cookies too! 🙂
Judy Laquidara says
We are too I’m sure though neither of us are going near the scales.
Susan Nixon says
We’re a nice 75 right now. Going down into high fifties and low 60s for the next week, and that’s really okay. I have no where to go and at those temperatures, I don’t need A/C or heater.
Teri says
It sounds like you are really accomplishing a lot. Good! Are you putting the wheat in the buckets you ordered from HD or something else?
Stay well Judy & Vince!
Judy Laquidara says
No. I have a bunch of food grade plastic buckets that I’ve had forever and re-use. Those were mostly empty since I’d been using what I had stored when I thought we were moving.
Nelle Coursey says
I think you may have jinxed Georgia! She was cutting masks and her cutter slipped and she ended up in the ER and 6 stitches in her hand! Then the next morning her wolf died. Not a good week for her, please keep her in your prayers.
Judy Laquidara says
Oh, no. I’m so sorry to hear all that.
Carolyn says
Hope your cinnamon rolls are good! I gained 6 pounds in the 2 weeks I self-quarantined after our Disney trip. Glad I’m back to work! Since Lee was home too, we were eating 3 real meals a day, with dessert, I’m not used to that! The 3 bags of jelly beans that we picked up didn’t help either! I’ll be curious to see if the areas that are hotter will see a more rapid decline in the number of cases of the virus as opposed to places like NJ, where we have a huge number of cases and we won’t have steady highs in the 90s for a few months. I’ve already been told I won’t be able to hold the new granddaughter for at least 6-8 weeks after she’s born…in July! Makes me sad, but what can I do? My kids are very upset that I’m back at work, but I really didn’t have a choice, we’re an essential business. Don’t want the natural gas pipelines that we repair exploding!
Judy Laquidara says
Neither of us are brave enough to get on the scales now but I know once this is over and we do, we’re going to wish we hadn’t! 🙂