Before I put the dough into the oven yesterday I was prepared to be disappointed with the resulting loaf. I am a shitty bread baker, no matter whose recipe I follow. But I was wrong! The loaf is far from perfect, but it looks and tastes good.
Wordle: two, my starter was CRUEL
Good morning…
73 de JG/HamWithCam
Good morning, friend.
Kudos on nailing Wordle in 2, especially with that starting word. I was ready to throw my phone by the time I got it in 5.
Thanks. Wordle in two is often just as lucky as Wordle in one.
Wordle in 4, coulda been 3 and a deuce is very nice! Well done.
150lbs of winter rye is spread and hopefully the dew will help it germinate. No rain to speak of yet.
LQ is hitched up. Last night when trying to hitch, the electric jack started going only up, not down. (What now?). Found the manual, went back and tried again and it was fine! Crazy. Will pack up tools and clothing for 10 days today. And it will be chilly in the mornings!
-FP
Geez. 10 days in the LQ? I would die.
Spreading 1.5 pounds of winter rye, much less one-hundred-and-fucking-fifty pounds, would make me die. I’d need 10 days in the LQ to recovery.
Though we all know that I ain’t right in the head, I don’t think it would be that bad. I assume Steve didn’t spread by using his hands, he either had a push spreader, or even better yet something attached to that tractor he loves. 🙂
You know i have a spreader that runs off the PTO. Getting the setting right is the trick. Its 6 acres at least, so there isn’t a way without a tractor.
you use too many abbreviations – what the hell is PTO?
Barb you are from Iowa and don’t know what a PTO is? Your farmer ancestors would be disappointed 🙂
Barb, I didn’t know either. To me, PTO stands for paid time off, which I haven’t had since the Clinton era. In this context it’s apparently “power take-off”, basically a fancy way of Steve saying that he has a fucking tractor that powers a fucking spreader. So there. 🙂
Bob – city girl from Iowa, and I never knew any of the farming ancestors.
David – really? that’s what it stands for?
(and I’m with you – PTO is paid time off)
Makes ya happy you’re in an apartment now, right David? LOL.
Absolutely.
LQ? I assume it’s the camper/trailer?
Ten days in it seems a lot nicer than ten days in a tent.
I think it will be fine. Better than 2+ hours of drivimg through traffic for sure.
PTO = Power Take Off
A shaft out the ass end of the tractor that will drive other useful tractor farm stuff.
See also Bush Hog, et al.
73 de JG/HamWithCam
Very busy at work these days, October is always busy but throw in that we are also undergoing a 10 year re-accreditation process and it’s so much worse!
We went to Surin for dinner last night. No sportsing yesterday so we watched Guy’s Grocery Games.
I’d rather eat oysters than watch Guy Fieri.
In from an overwhelming walk around WLF. It’s horribly overgrown, and fraught with spiders. Most crops have either gone over, or are hanging on to their last offerings. At least half of the cold weather crops have died after transplanting, or have been consumed by caterpillars. Good thing I don’t rely on my ability to feed myself from WLF.
Also, still haven’t completely banished the sickness I brought back from Canada, so I tire quickly.
Haven’t seen a hummingbird since changing the feeder on Monday. I wonder if they have already migrated further south?
Yes, hummers are gone unless they are passing through from farther north.
Okaaaaaay, here is something I didn’t expect to do today: chase a bird from inside my house after it scared the shit out of me by flying past me as I entered the kitchen. It was a nuthatch, wren, or whatever, small and scared. After closing interior doors and opening the outer doors, I managed to coerce it with a broom to fly into and then out of the kitchen.
my dad used to always yell at us to shut any door all our years in Iowa, “A bird will fly in” – & it never happened.
But then – just last year – it finally did to my sister. We will laugh about that forever.
Add me to your list.