Monday musings

We had some rain during the night, but Monday morning started off sunny and breezy. The clothes that got hung out yesterday evening needed to hang a little longer to get dry. I was off work again today, so it's all ok. I don't go in until 11 AM tomorrow.

I began my day with coffee with milk in it. I wasn't really hungry, probably because of the heavy meal of rabbit dumplings I had last night. Got the house tidied up a bit and put more bread in the machines. This time, I wanted to just make dough and let it rise, then put it in bread pans to bake for more manageable sized loaves. Bread machine loaves are oddly shaped and sometimes difficult to store in regular gallon zip bags. I made cinnamon/raisin/molasses bread and honey bran bread.

I put my basil plants near the back door to see if they would continue growing for awhile. The back door is all glass and lets quite a bit of sunlight through during the mornings. I used two 2-gallon buckets, placed upside down, to lift the pots off the cold floor and to help catch water when I water them.

The laundry was dry, in spite of last night's rain, so I brought it in. Got the animals fed while I was out there. Son found a rather large tarantula outside, so we naturally had to catch it and take its picture. Sadly, the chickens spied it and the large spider became lunch for one of the birds.

Supper was leftovers from last night, and they were still very tasty. The bread wound up being made in the machines since I haven't set up a proofing box for dough, yet. It's still quite good, though.

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