Earth Day

I had my cappuccinos while prepping my sour dough bread loaves. Next step was to stretch dough, shape and proof for 2 plus hours. I had doubled the recipe so made up two loaves.

all bubbly ready to roll, love my handy shower cap

My next plan was to see how dirty the white towels were with the popular stripping cleaning on IG. However I think only the socks caused the dirty water and really not much.

My leftover Vietnamese was lunch as I now was on to cooking up the bread. I had to do in two batches seeing I only had 1 stainless steel pan but in the future I would use my bread pan too. The loaves turned out picture perfect. I popped out the last one to cool. Sharon was coming over so I ran out and hauled chairs down from the mezzanine for the deck and opened the yard gate. It was windy yet sunny but the south deck was sheltered nicely.

 ready for then in the oven

Sharon popped over as I was finishing up dishes at 2:30. We enjoyed a great catch-up on the deck and she even brought me a birthday cake!! puffed wheat cake, so yummy THANK YOU!! While we visited the courier dropped off my box of Chef's Plate for the week. Sharon was off before 5:30 taking B's farrier chaps along to see what she might have to make me a pair. I closed the gate and walked out to give Bird on the east side her meds then back to the west side to close off the 2 south paddocks.

Inside I tested out the cooled down sourdough bread and it seems I nailed the soft chewy crisp crust!! That would be supper for now with another piece of puffed wheat cake for dessert. The news is calling for rain so I headed out to jump in the skid steer and start the paddock clean up as it is greening up super fast.

 I spent 2 hours pushing poop when the wind started to pick up and the grey threatening clouds were overhead. Britt and Dave had just drove in and were feeding Bird in the bluster. I parked the skid steer, chatted a bit then they were off as the double rainbow glowed to the east and rain started.

this is part way thru and below my 2 hour progress

 It sadly only lasted about 10 minutes, enough to wet the dust. I came in and had some left over turkey casserole, another puffed wheat square and worked on todays blog. This reminded me of the towels soaking in the tub so they were squeezed out and hauled to the washer. I sure liked the old top load washers for this purpose and would highly recommend doing so in one to save all the back bending hauling LOL. Time for a hot shower to lose some dust then I caught some YouTube gardening videos to inspire me to try zuccini and potatoes in pots. Happy earth day.