Baking Bread

I live in the country. I should be able to make a decent loaf of bread. I borrowed the bread machine from my Mom. I bought all of the healthy ingredients. And I was ready to bake several loaves a week so that we wouldn't have to buy processed bread from the store again or go broke buying the healthy stuff.

Attempt #1: Dense brick that slightly resembled bread.
Attempt #2: Not quite as dense but still gross brick that slightly resembled bread.

Now I could buy the premade bread mixes but what's the point? Those are $4 a pop. I might as well go to the natural section of the grocery store and pay $4 a loaf for good bread.

Well, I'll give it another try. I live in the country. I have to be able to do this!

Our towels don't work

When we moved to the country we left our outdated washer and dryer behind. We bought a new front-loading washer and plan to buy the dryer next month. So we hang dry everything.

Have you ever used towels that were dried in the sun? They are crunchy. Kendall was using one the other day and said "These towels don't work anymore. They don't take the water off of my body". Yes, they are indeed broken. Crunchy cardboard...I mean towels do not absorb water. I can't wait for that new dryer.