Busy Baker bex

Our weather is nasty today, so DH said I didn't have to feed Daisy. Yesterday he put a big bale of hay down into the woods down in the end of the pasture. They have plenty of shelter down there and with the wind and rain, he doubts she'd want to come up and eat anyway.

I'm very relieved not to have to feed because I slept horribly again last night. It's all the pain that keeps waking me up and all the painkillers that certainly aren't helping either. They help with the pain, but they make my system work weird. I was up for a little while, right after DH left for work, but then I slept again. I got up a little after nine. I'm amazed the girls let me sleep that long. I think Shawnee is growing up enough that she starting to be able to hold it longer.

I've had yeast in the refrigerator all week waiting for me to have the energy to bake. I just put three loaves of bread in the oven. I figure that if I was going to go through all that work I might as well do it properly and make plenty. I used the yeast is normally the right amount for four loves. Our bread form is very large so that got a little bit more than half the dough. The rest are split in half and made into two smaller loaves that I just put flat on the pan. DH prefers bread baked in the form, but his parents prefer the bread baked on the pan. His mother says that she thinks the stuff on the pan holds longer. My theory is that that's because the entire loaf gets coated with egg as opposed to only the top like when you do it in a loaf pan.

DH really enjoys having homemade bread on the weekends. His parents usually buy bread from the bakery, but it's very expensive. Last time I gave them a loaf they praised it very highly so I think that she liked mine better than the bakery bread. I like being able to help them and is great to have something to be proud of.

I probably won't get blogged as much over the weekend. I hope everyone has a great weekend, wherever they are.