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Fell off.
See? This is what I do. I start things, usually with enthusiasm, then for one reason or another all the air gets let out of my happy balloon and I abandon the project. Since my last post, I started writing a book- I meant for it to become a novel. I dove in, wrote 23…
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In the garden:
I finally managed to get some pictures of current growth. I don’t think I’m going to have *quite* the harvest that I wanted when I set out this Spring, mainly because it took me forever to get fill dirt for my beds, so I couldn’t maintain my seedlings that I had planned. Once I fell…
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Really, really tired.
Started a detox on Monday, here is how I’m doing. By detox, I don’t mean just any detox. I am using Danny’s Protocol from Dirt Road Discussions; if you’re not familiar, it’s a channel on Telegram that promotes natural health and healing from way-too-common maladies which are routinely ignored by the medical industrial complex- things…
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Well that flew right by…
Didn’t I say I would write a new post about the 4th of July weekend in the following week? So, it’s been a little longer than expected, but here we go. Let’s start with The 4th of July. Historically, this has been one of my favorite holidays. When I was a kid, it meant going…
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Directionless
I have no motive for writing today’s (this week’s) post. Nothing specific, anyway. Nothing exciting has happened with my sourdough recently. My starter is strong, and I’ve made plenty of discard recipes, but I am feeling discouraged by the almost insane amount of detail I have to consider when trying to make loaves. See exhibit…
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Bugs in my Kitchen
… of the ginger and fruit variety. Fruit flies. Hate them. HATE. But they were drawn in by my ginger bug, which I fully understand. I am wondering now, however, if I even did this right. When I first started my bug back in May (the same day I started my sourdough starter, Breadna Krabappel-…
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It has begun.
I started my first (un)loaf of sourdough bread this morning. I belong to a Sourdough for Beginners community on FB, and there I found a recipe that is as simple and straightforward as I believe it gets: the UNloaf. The directions are as follows: Mix dough: 165g of cold, unfed starter (discard) into 400g of…


