Daily Archives: March 25, 2013

Exercise

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Actually, NO exercise this week!  The Park District must be working on the building, getting it ready for Spring and Summer classes, so our Senior Exercise has been cancelled.

We have plenty to do to fill up our days, but it seems odd to have the schedule changed.  I will be leading class in mid April while our exercise guru is taking a yoga seminar.  I have a new song to put into the mix, so I need to work out the counting of the moves, and get a disk created with the new song.  That’s one of my projects for this week.

I plan to finish quilting the first of the twin bed quilts that we will give to the shelter this year.  The quilting might take me a couple of hours at the sewing machine.  The binding will take longer than that, but not too long.

I have some family documents that I’d like to scan into the computer and then send to my siblings.  They are things from my parents and grandparents that provide family history and genealogy which I think all my siblings might like to have.

Filing….I have filing to do  I’ve hit bottom on the company filing, so now I’m down to just the personal stuff, but that will keep me busy for a morning each month.  I’m seriously considering filing once a month rather than letting it drag out. (I can hear the snickering in the back ground. QUIT IT! lol)

I guess it’s time to get my day started.  Have a good one!

Weather

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Bad weather has given us a couple of extra hours with my sister and her husband.  Originally, they had planned to leave at 7:00 a.m. for the trip home, but the weather in their neck of the woods is much worse than it is here.  They have ice and snow, and it’s bad enough that the local university has cancelled classes.  It’s  given us a much less rushed morning.  If they wait a bit to leave the roads might be in better shape.

Today is a cleaning and tidying day.  Scraps on a Mission meets here tomorrow, and right after that the realtor is coming.  We’ll be signing the contracts to sell our house.  It will be a momentous day.

Our bread baking class yesterday was very interesting.  The chef managed to organize things in such a way that we were able to make sour dough dinner rolls, pesto rolls, a focaccia with rosemary, cinnamon and raisins, and a basic white sandwich loaf.  We learned how to proof dry yeast, and shape rolls.  I learned that salt will kill yeast, so you add it to your dough later in the process.  I also learned that sticky dough sometimes needs more kneading, and sometimes needs more flour. You always try the kneading first.

I made a lot of bread and cinnamon rolls when I was in my  20s.  My doctor suggested that I stop baking because I was getting too many carbs.  I miss making my own bread.  We’ll have to see if we can use more restraint if we resume bread  baking

Meanwhile,  we hope our loved ones have a safe trip home, and a good week of Spring Vacation.  Is there a tribal dance to bring on Spring?  We sure could use it!