A couronne. I’m very happy with how this turned out.
Experimenting with flour and shape is really fun. The ring shape gives this one a lot of crust.
We turned our bathroom into a darkroom for a day of screenprinting. Photos of our adventures here …
A few months ago, Mary came up with a very cool idea for a screenprinting project. Since then, she's been assembling everything she needs to make it work. We finally got all the pieces arranged and spent a lot of our Sunday working on this. (Turns out, screenprinting is quite involved!) Here's a rough photo journey of the day. With the Speedball screenprinting kit, we taped the edges and prepared for work. The green sheen is a "photo-emulsion" chemical. Essentially it's like a photo developer chemical. The darkroom assembled (we replaced the heat lamp with a red bulb) the photo Read more…
Quiet Weekend
We spent a long weekend at Mason Lake, catching up on reading and perfecting the fine art of doing nothing. Mary beat me at Spite and Malice (a good card game). We watched a DVD or two. And I wrote a couple chapters in the novel I'm working on. The weather wasn't all it could have been for the last weekend of July and the first weekend of August, but even with some cloudy skies, the lake isn't a bad place to while away the time. After that we met up with my friend Deborah from The Netherlands in Seattle Read more…
Lawn Be Gone! The lawn is toast and the urban garden is a growing.
The lawn outside of our little four-plex condo building was postage stamp size–maybe, 12' x 14' or so, plus a narrow parking strip. I never thought about it much, as it was rather useless. No one ever hung out on it for picnics, people watching, etc. And it was way to small to play on. But recently, the condo association budget started to hurt, and it didn't take much to realize that we were spending an inordinate amount of money on landscaping. And the reason was: lawn care. It cost a lot of money to have someone come out to Read more…
Peggy and Wendy got these two loaves … and I got a kitchen that smells wonderful!
I’m really getting into baking bread and am baking more than I can eat myself. If you want a loaf let me know! I’ll be baking more when I get back from my vacation next week.
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