Miscellany

I love homemade bread, I really do. I have always made it by hand, never having owned a bread machine, so most of the time it's too time consuming for me to make. Today, though, I looked for a quick bread for sandwiches, found a recipe, and tried it. It was a very simple white bread, quick to make, but *something* seemed off about it. I don't know if it's because it's been so long since I've had white bread, or because of the salt I inadvertently left out. I'll probably try again over the weekend, if I'm not too burned out from Thanksgiving day cooking.

I sent the boys out to do the 'chicken work' because both the boys and the chickens need some free range time every day. EVERY day. When it was nicer out, we would spend hours outside. The boys would play, the chickens would scratch, I would harvest or pull weeds, and then I'd let the boys water when needed. I MISS that already. It's only November, so I have a long way to go before I'm going to enjoy my time outside.

K (age 5) was so sweet today. He gave me Bionicle lessons, where he teaches me how to build a Bionicle that he has created. "Do you have time?...I like to teach you things I know" So adorable.

It's hard to find a blog I feel like I want to read. On a regular basis. It seems like there's a lot of 'You follow me and I follow you' stuff, and that's not really what I'm looking for. I want to write stuff that people want to read for the sake of reading it, I don't want to accumulate followers that don't really care to read what I write. And I don't want to follow someone that has a blog I am not interested in, either. So. It's HARD.

I'm not going to blog about anything in particular, that's the thing. I want to JOURNAL. Right now, anyway. I have no niche or area of expertise I want to write about. I don't want to feel like I can only write about certain things. I want to write about what I want, whatever is rattling around in my head. Probably no one would want to read that.

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