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busy and fun weekend
Nov. 25th, 2024 08:24 amFriday, I did very little. It was great. ETA: Actually, I went to my local NCAA women's team's hockey game and it was fun!
Saturday I ran errands in the morning, which was go to the co-op for baking supplies, the farm for 3 doz eggs and goodwill to get a fleece blanket to use as a muslin for the coat I'm working on. I found one old dog blanket but it wasn't enough material for the size of this coat, so I had to get another. It's still sitting in the washing machine but I'll pull it out tonight during crafting.
That afternoon, I made the two hour drive to Brattleboro, VT for the book event of Country Queers: A Love Letter. I found this project back when it was on the original blog in 2014 or 2015, when I was looking for other people like me in rural areas. Since then it has become a podcast and now a book. Rae was really wonderful to talk to and the event was awesome. I ended up chatting with some random folks at the event as well. I stopped on my way back to take a few pictures of pretty VT hills.
Sunday was Baking Time. I so missed baking with being so busy. I started by making yogurt since I need breakfast yogurt. Then I started chocolate babka from Baked to Perfection. Then did some gluten challah because I really miss making gluten bread. Then I made brownies. Then I had a lull where the oven was still on but the breads were still rising, so I tossed some cheese cornbread in a pan and threw that in. Then threw the challah and babka in the oven together since the challah needed a 400F oven and the babka needed 350, so I put challah on the bottom rack and babka on the top. The babka took forever to bake and I think it's still a smidge underbaked but it's super tasty and not super sweet because I didn't put the sugar syrup on top.
Then I took most of the brownies and the Forbidden Bread over to the A Farm, where they were smack dab in the middle of turkey pickup. They process around 200 turkeys to sell every year and thus, a ton of people come to pick them up. They have around 10 parking spots on a normal day. I ran out to help with parking people and we had probably 20-25 cars smushed in at any one time. There were a ton of people and not all of them good at parking but we made it work. The last 45 minutes of the pickup time was mostly standing around a campfire chatting with everyone and then we cleanup and went in for dinner.
They're all exhausted because 200 turkeys is a lot, then they have to weigh and package them all and sort by size for the pickup. They have another processing day on Tuesday, which is mostly someone else's turkeys plus some for processing into sausage and other things in their kitchen. I have helped more other years, but I figure bringing some bread and brownies over helps a little.
Good weekend.
Saturday I ran errands in the morning, which was go to the co-op for baking supplies, the farm for 3 doz eggs and goodwill to get a fleece blanket to use as a muslin for the coat I'm working on. I found one old dog blanket but it wasn't enough material for the size of this coat, so I had to get another. It's still sitting in the washing machine but I'll pull it out tonight during crafting.
That afternoon, I made the two hour drive to Brattleboro, VT for the book event of Country Queers: A Love Letter. I found this project back when it was on the original blog in 2014 or 2015, when I was looking for other people like me in rural areas. Since then it has become a podcast and now a book. Rae was really wonderful to talk to and the event was awesome. I ended up chatting with some random folks at the event as well. I stopped on my way back to take a few pictures of pretty VT hills.
Sunday was Baking Time. I so missed baking with being so busy. I started by making yogurt since I need breakfast yogurt. Then I started chocolate babka from Baked to Perfection. Then did some gluten challah because I really miss making gluten bread. Then I made brownies. Then I had a lull where the oven was still on but the breads were still rising, so I tossed some cheese cornbread in a pan and threw that in. Then threw the challah and babka in the oven together since the challah needed a 400F oven and the babka needed 350, so I put challah on the bottom rack and babka on the top. The babka took forever to bake and I think it's still a smidge underbaked but it's super tasty and not super sweet because I didn't put the sugar syrup on top.
Then I took most of the brownies and the Forbidden Bread over to the A Farm, where they were smack dab in the middle of turkey pickup. They process around 200 turkeys to sell every year and thus, a ton of people come to pick them up. They have around 10 parking spots on a normal day. I ran out to help with parking people and we had probably 20-25 cars smushed in at any one time. There were a ton of people and not all of them good at parking but we made it work. The last 45 minutes of the pickup time was mostly standing around a campfire chatting with everyone and then we cleanup and went in for dinner.
They're all exhausted because 200 turkeys is a lot, then they have to weigh and package them all and sort by size for the pickup. They have another processing day on Tuesday, which is mostly someone else's turkeys plus some for processing into sausage and other things in their kitchen. I have helped more other years, but I figure bringing some bread and brownies over helps a little.
Good weekend.
