What an eventful day we had today. I got up at 6AM and walked the greenway and it was miserable. Now I usually enjoy walking every minute and even when I am walking hard I am enjoying it immensely. Not today! Although I got up and out early it was miserably hot and humid from the very first step. Walking up those last few hills was awful because the sun had come up enough to cook me! I have decided I will exercise inside until summer is over because it just makes me sick to walk in this heat and humidity.
My nemesis the sun and the humidity gave me a heat index of 93 degrees at 7AM!
On the other hand, I did get some sun just as I had planned because I came up with a clever little plan. Typically unless I am in water I don't lay out in the sun in the hottest months of July or August. Again it is just too hot and also I have absolutely no attention span. Once I have laid or sat there for a few minutes, I start squirming and watching the clock and I just can't do it for long. But today I turned the water hose on and got to looking at the spray attachment and saw where you could set it on mist and lock it. So I did and set it down on the ground, pointed up toward me, and it was awesome! I was under a constant mist of cool water and really could never tell it was even hot outside! So I got some sunshine and made some Vitamin D and felt soooo good today.
Then Tracy and I took off for Nashville. I tell you living here in White House is the very best of all worlds. We have country living with a big city just a few miles down the road. Nikki mentioned the farmer's market to us yesterday and I had to check it out! I also decided to try to eat better and found an awesome blog called thegraciouspantry.com and an excellent video on how to make no-knead yeast bread so I decided after the farmer's market we would go to Whole Foods Market and check it out! We had a wonderful day!
The Farmer's Market was superb but very hot so we grabbed purple hull peas and peaches and left for Whole Foods Market
This place is wonderful but natural and organic equals small packages and expensive apparently!
We got the Vital Wheat Gluten we needed for the bread and ran!
Next we headed to Books A Million because I wanted the bread book I had found online. One thing I hate about BAM is the fact that they never can find a book I ask for and sure enough the lady looked up the book and said, "We have one copy, let's go find it..." And I'm thinking, "Sure, let's!" She looks and looks and finally offers to order the book and I decline. Now I have to admit there must be hundreds of books in the cooking section, divided further in to healthy cooking, cooking for people with certain medical problems, plain cooking, Southern cooking, fancy cooking, weight loss cooking, and on and on. But the sections are in such disarray and as always she could not find it anywhere. She goes back to her register, apologizing profusely and I am upset and scouring the books, thinking it must be here somewhere but what if someone like me has picked it up and changed their minds and laid it down near the romance novels!??! (Miranda knows I am bad about this and yells at me for it!) So just as I am ready to give up, Tracy says, "Healthy Bread in Five Minutes A Day...is this it!" It was! Hooray! So I got the book:
Mission Accomplished at BAM! Thanks, baby!
Then we headed home and started supper with our wonderful foods. We shelled purple hull peas and cooked them, we had corn from our neighbor which we steamed, Tracy made a skillet of Mexican cornbread and I made peach cobbler! Awesome, awesome, awesome!
Look at that awful oven! No, don't! Sorry! :( Focus on the cornbread!
Grandpa, this is what's for supper!
What a day and what a meal! After supper, Tracy mixed the five ingredients for the bread and here it is already rising and looking good:
I will let you know in future posts how it goes and we are excited to have homemade bread in many varieties every day!
Next I did Pilates and I guess the combination of the yummy meal and getting up so early wore me out! Tracy came in to the room and I had fallen asleep on the Pilates machine! LOL I wish he had gotten a picture of that! I finished the workout and then I got a text picture from Miranda of Tobey.
Looks like she had a good supper too or then again maybe not! :)
Has she been in our bread dough?!
A wonderful end to a beautiful day! Love, love, love!
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