Little Things

This week has been spent recuperating from some virus that thought it should attack our family.  We got together for Easter and "the bug" shared himself with most of us.  Don't feel bad, Amy, it's rampant here in Salem too.  When I called my visiting teaching companion to tell her I was sick and couldn't go out Tues. morning, she was sick with the same thing.  Anyhow, my purpose in saying this is to explain why I am putting some small things on my blog before I get around to organizing my Easter pictures to see if I have any good ones to share.

Here's one good thing that happened this week.  We got our kitchen hot water back!!! YEA!!!

Here's the little culprit that was blocking our hot water flow in the kitchen.  We can't figure out what it is or how it got there.  Neither could the plumber.

Here's one more interesting thing.  I wanted to make some French bread to go with a meal on Saturday (last Saturday) so I got online and found one that was Julia Child's recipe.  Well, that HAD to be good so I went with it.  After mixing up the ingredients I noticed the rising time.  It said (and I kid you not) to let it rise in the bowl about three hours, then punch it down and let it rise again for

1 ½ to 2  hours more.  After it was formed into the loaves it was to rise another 1 ½ to 2 ½  hours.  Luckily I had started fairly early in the morning and didn't have anywhere to go that day.

Here's part of my bread.  I actually made three loaves out of it instead of two so they were smaller than usual.  They were pretty good though.  Thanks, Julia.