Friday Later

It is interesting that Robin is one of the few people I know who actually prefer to write an outline of an essay before she writes the essay. I, and everyone I have ever asked { with the exception of one} are part of the vast majority who write the essay first and then write the outline regardless of what their English teachers tell them. Today she was finishing the outline of one essay which she said she would write when I had gone — this one is due on Monday– and when I asked her what she needed help with, she chose to work on the outline of her next essay due a week  from Monday.

The art class this afternoon was very interesting. We were learning techniques of working with oil pastels and we started by experimenting with the red, blue, yellow, black and white which were the colors to which we were deliberately limited. From those he told us to see how many colors we could make. It took me most of the two hour period before I felt comfortable with what I was doing but when everything finally came together, I did a rather nice tree stump with grass and leaves growing around it. I like the way the colors can be blended together and how several layers can be combined  or scraped away. I did nothing this past week with charcoal because I just never got comfortable with it and didn’t like it well enough to practice. But I do like the oil pastels. There will be no class next week because the instructor is doing a class somewhere else with grandparents and grandchildren, but on the Friday after that, we are learning how to use dry pastels. He has also told us we will have more than three colors and black and white. Possibly tomorrow, but if not, fairly soon, I need to get myself some more drawing paper. Maybe I will take a trip to a craft store or to the art shops on Church St. and do some retail therapy.

The loaf of brown bread turned out very well even though it has a big hole in the bottom where the paddle had to be cut out. I usually take the paddle out right after the punch-down and at the beginning of the second rise. It is actually quite easy to do and just involves opening the top, lifting the dough and removing the paddle. But since I wasn’t there at that point, it didn’t get done and it was stuck inside the loaf when it came out.

 I have just remembered that I have a collection of bread seasonings I got when I bought the flour containers from the King Arthur Flour site and I haven’t tried any of them….

Until  later…