Miscellaneous Evening Stuff

When I took a look at the other stuff I had bought this morning, I had forgot to mention the 4 forty-watt bulbs for 77 cents and the digital timer. The bulbs I bought because that is a very good price and we use a lot of 40 watt bulbs. When I lived in Mississippi, I lived a long way from any place where I could buy stuff one always runs out of so I learned to buy such things as light bulbs and matches in bulk. And even though the nearest store is five minutes away in a car, I still feel uncomfortable when I don’t have a stock, no matter how small, of light bulbs !

The digital timer is, I hope, one of those that makes a “demented chicken” sound. I had one but knocked it off the refrigerator door one day and killed it. Mostly I use the timer for reminding me I have laundry in the washer and dryer on Mondays and, of course, the gingerbread has to be timed. Right after I broke the original one, I went to the supermarket and got a replacement because it was a Monday and I needed that timer. This replacement  has a pleasant, quiet buzz which goes on for 20 seconds and then stops all by itself. If I was in the bathroom, I would never hear it. So, although I haven’t tried it yet, I am hoping this digital one is like the old one. I NEED the demented “cheep-cheep-cheep” and I need it to not cut off until I go over and shut it off. If it doesn’t meet those criteria, back it goes!

Fred has become very interested in reading my diary and I am still trying to sort out how I feel about this. One the one hand, I am pleased that he is finding my point of view of our life interesting enough to read but on the other hand, I am wondering how open I can be now I know he is reading. I have decided that it is going to make NO difference to how I write. This is my diary and I will put in it what I choose to put in it. I am not saying that in a nasty way, but, just as I did before I invited him to read, if I have a complaint, if I am having a bad day–it will go in here as it did before…

Tomorrow I tutor Robin from 10 until 11 am and then in the afternoon, I go to the art class. I sketched out my cactus yesterday and in the beginning, I didn’t do well. To my eyes, I can see that the part where I began is painfully overworked. As I got into it more I was much more relaxed and although that part of it is perhaps sketchier, it is definitely better art… Tomorrow we learn about composition and add charcoal to our materials.

Yesterday I made a two-cheeses loaf and one that has bits of red onion in it. Today is the first day I tried the red-onion bread as toast . Eaten as ordinary sandwich bread, it is rather uninteresting, but eaten toasted, it is, like the cheese bread, excellent! It will be made again. I made it as the recipe said with a medium crust but I think it might do better with a dark crust setting. It seems very fragile and breaks easily when it is sliced. I have no idea why some bread is robust and some is fragile. I need to do some more reading on the ingredients for bread, I think…

Until later…