bread making

One of my goals on my list of 26 things to do before I am 27 was to get good at baking bread from scratch. I decided though that the pre-requisite for this goal needed to be figuring out how to actually get my bread maker to work. I bought it second hand about 18…

#15 finish one book a month

One of my list of 26 things to do before I am 27 is to finish at least one book every month. I love to read. As a child I was a huge bookworm and the local library was one of my favourite places. I believe one of my early teachers even asked my parents…

#20 – Make ice cream!

I made ice cream! There were some cherries in the fridge beginning to look sorry for themselves, and a carton of cream just waiting to be used. And my parents-in-law arrived last night, so what better reason? We already ate half of it (somewhat soft ice ish for us being impatient) but I will try…

i resolve

I remember making new years resolutions last year, but I don’t actually remember them all. They are scrawled on a scrap of paper that is probably in the big box full of scraps of paper under my bed. I know one of them was to write at least one snail mail letter a week, in…