Coffee anyone ?

[fuzzi]

Sipping coffee and still working on setting up new phone. I hate the hoops we have to jump through. I can activate after 9am, carrier is PacificTime.

 

[Baymule]

Good morning. Bay you need a break after this last week. Take it easy and I hope you get your needed rest today. I decided to jump on the stud randomly in the pasture to see what he'd do yesterday. Walking is hard now. Not that bad, just an ankle.

Part of my agreement with mounting birthdays is to no longer ride rough horses, green horses, and idiots. That palomino mare I had, knocked me flat, fractured something in my lower spine, I limped for several weeks. Wake up call. She was in the idiot category, loaded her up and took her to sale.

What you did was stupid, but you’ll get over it. Maybe next time you want to do a fool thing like that, stop and consider what did you just teach the horse. You have been broken up enough, you don’t need any more!

 

[Blue Sky]

I'm still thinking about the yelling session I got last week, still angering me. So tempted in pulling my tool box out next Friday. Like it's on repeat.

It’s hard not to replay that stuff. Hubbs is in the loan business, working with mostly oil field and construction clients. As you can imagine there are tempers. Time can fix a lot of things. Good luck.

 

[Blue Sky]

Who’s a good boy? He’s showing me a critter hole I need to fix.

 

[SageHill]

I'm still thinking about the yelling session I got last week, still angering me. So tempted in pulling my tool box out next Friday. Like it's on repeat.

Ah damn, I hate it when things like that go on an endless loop of replay. Only way I've found out of that is work with the animals. When I worked in engineering I rode my horse every night after work - that made a huge difference, probably the only way I survived the idiots. Good luck.

 

[SageHill]

OK the Great Bread Experiment
I make sourdough all the time. Every time I have tried regular bread it ends up a doorstop 90% of the time. I chose sourdough because it always worked for me, I don't need a big ol' stand mixer with a hook, no kneading, it's practically a one-bowl-wonder.
Lately, I've thought I should give the regular bread a try again BUT doing all the same things I do when I make sourdough. Just substitute some rapid yeast (bread machine yeast) a little more flour and water to compensate for what I would use in starter.
Afterall - in cooking they say it's all about the method.
Yesterday I did it. Made both at the same time -- just in case there was a difference in the weather or whatever.
The results ---- it worked! The sourdough has a little more flavor sourdough thing ya' know. But other than that both were amazing. Both made great toast this morning.
As the saying goes - pics or it didn't happen

Mixed up. Both about the same.

After the bake

Regular bread on the left, sourdough on the right. Both
baked at the same time in the same oven. Difference could
be once side of the oven is hotter possibly, the amount of
yeast I used, or God only knows the reason.
FYI I use 50 grams of starter so in the regular loaf I
substituted 2 teas yeast (just a guess), 25 grams flour and
25 grams water.

And finally - after the cut.

Keeping my starter going is easy, but there are times I forget to feed it or have sooo much I need to freeze or toss out. Now that I know I can do bread like this I can relax about keeping the starter going - though I do use it for
a lot of other things, so there's that.

 

[Blue Sky]

That bread is beautiful!

 

[Mini Horses]

Hot with fresh butter....wow

 

[Baymule]

I'm still thinking about the yelling session I got last week, still angering me. So tempted in pulling my tool box out next Friday. Like it's on repeat.

If you are ready to go on your own, then load up and drag up. If you still want that paycheck to buy the things necessary to get what you need to start your own business, then simmer down. The best revenge is success.

 

[fuzzi]