Summer's coming

Morning temp: 60F
Afternoon high: 85F
Tonight's projected low: 57F
Humidity: 69%
Wind: E at 6 mph
Moon: nearly 100% Full (a good time for transplanting!)

This Morning.

1. It's a beautiful, sunshiny day! We can see the days getting warmer, with day-time highs creeping into the mid-80s, and night-time lows creeping into the 60s. We think we'll be able to keep the Lettuce going so long as the night-time temps remain below 70F. That's what we've heard, so we'll see.

2. I'm spending my morning doing dishes, laundry, sweeping and mopping the kitchen floor, cleaning the bathroom, and learning to make Bread a different way. Thus far, we've learned to make quite hearty, whole wheat loaves using recipes from the Tsajara Bread Book- an excellent book for beginners, as detailed instructions and illustrations are provided for each step of the process. But we'd also like to make lighter, baguette-style loaves, and we're in the early stages of our first attempt right now. I've turned to a different cookbook, How to Cook Everything, for some new ideas.

This Afternoon.

1. Well, the new Bread recipe (from the book How to Cook Everything), as it turns out, is seriously flawed, calling for just 1 teaspoon of rapid-rising yeast for four loaves. That's a minuscule amount; twice that would be parsimonious. As a result, my baguettes are hardly rising at all, though they've sat up for several hours already. Projections for baking these dense little loaves are less than favorable, unless you like to eat rocks! : (

The funny thing is, even with my tiny amount of Bread making experience, I knew that more yeast was called for, though I was reluctant to disobey the "official" instructions. Is this experience a metaphor for life, or what?