Rainy, Early Mornings

Laney is starting her second full week back at her new job since being quarantined for 4 weeks. Ashley started back to school only to be sent home for exposure after just two and a half days. She's stuck at home for another two weeks and the poor thing has never tested positive herself. Jared has been working a few long shifts to cover for people being tested for Coronavirus at work, thankfully all their tests have been negative. 

I try to get up early with Laney and that leaves a couple hours of darkness before I can go feed and let out chickens. 

This morning it's raining. A slow drizzle.

I'm not sure if I have mentioned it before but I've been keeping sourdough starter since early February. I've made lots of things: pasta, pie crust, bread, pancakes, cobbler, dumplings, pizza crust and biscuits. The last time I made pancakes and was ready to fed my starter, I still had quite a bit left over so I measured out 4 oz and fed it and placed it back in the refrigerator. The remaining starter went back in the fridge, unfed,  to wait for a few days which brings us to this morning. I'm still a novice at sourdough and almost always use a recipe when making something. The biscuits recipe I used previously were made with butter and we're cut out. They were good but I prefer my hand rolled biscuits made with bacon grease better so without a recipe I dumped the remaining starter in a bowl, added self-rising flour, milk and bacon grease and made biscuits the way I normally do sans the sourdough starter. I love the way they turned out and can't wait to have one with butter and the homemade elderberry jelly I made a few weeks ago. 

I've also been at a standstill with Laney's blanket because I ran out of the brown (cafe latte) color. While waiting for more, I started on a blanket for Jared out of the yarn he picked out. He chose Red Heart Super Saver pooling (Haute Pooling). This is actually my fourth attempt at a blanket for him because planned pooling seemed daunting and I never liked the shift in patterns when doing several different stitches. So I "frogged" it for the last time and jumped in to planned pooling. Success!

I've actually been able to get and keep the argyle pattern.  Here's my progress so far: 

Well, the sun is starting to rise. I better get out there and feed the chickens and open the coop.

Until next time,

Becky