...10.25...Over the Weekend...

...I did a quick InstaCart shop in the morning...those are still the hard drives that Sissie copied her film collection to in the background...

...the weather has been gorgeous...with highs in the 70s (about 23° C)...so pretty perfect for bike riding...

...but I've been looking for some fall colour...and there's not a lot...at least not yet...

...and with the shorter days...I've been trying to rearrange my schedule to ride earlier...I'd been riding pretty late in the day as it was just a little bit cooler then...

...one of the things we didn't get this week was sandwich bread...so I did a quick search of the interwebs...and found a recipe for the "best soft sandwich bread"...but I'm not posting a link...because it really wasn't...haha...

...it looked promising in the bowl...a nice stretchy soft dough...

...and it rose up pretty beautifully too...

...so I punched it down...

...and oiled my pullman pan...

...and plopped the dough in for the second rising...

...and it looked pretty perfect when I took it out of the pan to cool...

...so after it had cooled...I got out my trusty bread slicing guide...and propped the end of the long loaf on a cup...haha

...it just helps you make neat and even slices...

...but I could just tell as I was slicing it that this is no sandwich bread...it's still a nice chewy bread that's good though...so we'll definitely use it up...just probably not for sammies...

...I had put a pound of great northern beans on to soak first thing in the morning...so while the bread was baking they were ready for the Instant Pot...

...and I used my muffing tins to freeze them in little half cup portions...or 'hockey pucks' as the Man likes to call them...haha...

...and finally with no first frost date in sight...I thought I'd give you a little update on my 'garden'...which was really just a a couple of butternut squash seeds that I scratched into the ground outside the back door...it still has plenty of blooms and looks pretty healthy...

...in addition to the nicely shaped large squash you've already seen is this oddly shaped medium sized one...so I'm likely to get only 2 squash from my two seeds...haha...still it cost me nothing at all...and I'm happy to have two squash...

~Wishing you a lovely start to your week!