Bread? Part II

I thought I would give the ol' bread baking another try yesterday. It went pretty well. I was nearing the end of the process. I had divided my dough into two loaves. One was slightly bigger than the other, but they both looked like loaves. I placed the two pans on the oven rack. As I was sliding the rack in, I saw that the rack above was close to touching the bread pans. I thought "I should lower this rack." So I stopped pushing the rack in and reversed its direction. The bread pans continued in their original direction. They slid off the end of the rack, landing with a resounding "thud" on the oven floor. The loaves collapsed. I thought I can either wait a couple of hours for the dough to rise again or I can just bake these bad boys as they are. I baked them. The loaves were about 2 inches thick. I sliced them lengthwise into three pieces, then cut each crosssection into two pieces. They turned out about the right size for sandwiches. Tasty.

One of these days, I'll get it right.

Random Acts of Kindness

No, not by me. I thought you all knew me better than that. I went shopping today, taking along the little pull cart that I use to bring the groceries home. I let some impulses take control and ended up buying a little bit more than would fit in my cart. About 2 plastic grocery bags worth. So I'm high steppin' through the parking lot to catch the bus that will bring me home. A nice lady stops her truck and asks if I live close. I tell her about a mile, she says let's put your stuff in the pickup and I'll take you home. And she did. Thanks, nice lady.

Bread?

My sister sent me our grandmother's bread recipe. So I made some bread last week. It tasted really, really good but I think I need to work on the "shaping loaves" part.

A New Year

I think I've been spending way too much time on Facebook and not nearly enough time blogging. Although I'm not really one for resolutions, here's mine: More blogs, less Facebook.

You will hardly notice the difference.

December 25

So here it is, December 25th again.

In spite of my generally Scrooged attitude, I hope all of my loved ones had the merriest Christmas ever. I love you.

Fun At Work

There are a couple of people that I work with that abuse the break/lunch policy. I don't mind people taking a few extra minutes. Heck, I'll even put up with 10 extra minutes most of the time. But these guys were doubling their allowed times. So it came to a small head. Somebody (not me) complained to the supervisor about it, and he mentioned it to the group as a whole: Watch your break times, because if you don't I will! So one of the guilty parties responded by not covering for others when they went to break. Including me. I got refused when I asked. I have not asked since. I got the silent treatment for a couple of weeks. Boo hoo. Last week she came in and was sweet as pie. It was like nothing happened. I was polite to her, but not friendly as I have been in the past. She brought me in a home-made tamal. If you know me, you know how much I love tamales. I told her it was good and was polite to her, but not as friendly as I have been in the past. Later that day she told me she was sorry she only brought me one and would bring me a dozen this coming week. I think I like having her trying to get back in my good graces. I love my job!

Halloween - Sorta

So in early October this nice lady I work with was talking about Halloween. She said she wanted to be a black cat. I immediately got a vision in my head of what her costume should be. I said "I can help you with that." So she gave me her measurements, and I made her a black cat costume. I tried to get it to her early so she could try it on and I could make adjustments if necessary. She had elbow surgery and missed some work. We were supposed to meet at a local car show that some guys from work were participating in but failed to connect. So, she called me the 30th and said let's get together for breakfast. I showed her the costume and she loved it. She was thrilled beyond belief. I said go home and try it on. If it's not right call me right away and I will fix it! She didn't call so I thought all was well. I asked her about it Sunday morning at work. It didn't fit. Some places worse than others. So she ended up going to a costume shop at the last minute and buying a cheap cat costume.

I didn't get any pictures of the costume.