Sunday 1-26 Baking Bread

I'm excited

Last night I took a loaf of Rhodes White Bread out of the freezer and put it in a baking dish. Then I put it in the refrigerator so it could start to thaw out, Larry got up at 5:00 in the morning to take the loaf out of the refrigerator so it could rise. According to the directions it should take between 2-3 hours. Well, it took much longer, it wasn't ready until 10:30. That was ok, we weren't in any hurry. Once it finished the rising cycle Larry put it in the oven for 20 minutes to bake. It came out delicious.

Fresh baked bread

It was a gorgeous day, it got up to 74 degrees. In the morning the temperature was in the 60s. While the bread was rising Larry and I went for a walk. We walked from the house to Temple Lake Park hiking along the old lake road. The road took us along the shores of Lake Belton. It was breezy so the lake was rough and had white caps. We saw a fishing boat flying down the lake until it got too rough and the driver slowed down. We walked to the gate that went into the park and turned around and headed back to the house. On the way back we saw a pontoon boat on the lake, it was even rough for it. We had a very pleasant walk we hadn't done this walk in a very long time. By the time we got back to the house we had walked about an hour.

Lake Belton

Boating on Lake Belton

     

In the afternoon we started catching up watching the GizWiz. The GizWiz is a weekly tech show and each episode is around an hour long. While we were in the Valley we didn't watch any of the shows so we have five episodes to watch. We watched a few today. Then we got caught up with the YouTube videos we follow. While getting caught up with our streaming I finished doing laundry.

Finishing laundry

We're planning to go snow skiing in a few weeks and my thermo underwear are shot, yesterday Larry ordered me a couple pairs off of Amazon. One set of pants and shirt came as a package deal, it was purple from Thermajane. The other set he had to order the shirt separate from pant, it was berry delight from Duofold. They came in this afternoon and they fit great.

While I was in the Valley our friend from Canada was cleaning out her house and gave me a green hat that lights up but it wasn't working so Larry ordered batteries for it. They also came in today. He replaced the batteries and it still didn't work. So far he has been unsuccessful at fixing it.

After dinner we started watching a series on PBS called Resistance. The series took place in France during World War II. It's about a group of people young and old who were resistance fighters during the invasion from the Germans. It's a good series except that it's in French so you have to read the subtitles to understand it. Then we listened to some music. After Larry went to bed I watched a few episodes of Bones. I did my daily challenges and the World Tour of 30 Solitaire games. I ended up only doing 29 of the games. We had a great day.

Relaxing in front of the television