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It's 80 again today, and the long range forecast shows it dipping into the 30's just once, on Sunday night. I'm still going to wait until mid-May before I put out my tomatoes, eggplants and melons, though. Been burned by a mid-May dip accompanied by sub-freezing wind chills too many times.
It's been really dry, and while there's some rain in the forecast for the weekend, it isn't expected to be heavy. The wind continues unabated.
The last 'free shipping' offer from King Arthur had a $75 threshold.
When we drive to visit our son and family in Pittsburgh I tend to stop at Stover Company in Cheswick to buy flour and couverture grade chocolate, but that's nearly at the western end of PA. I've never ordered from them online, their shipping prices are high, but that's not unusual any more. I ordered a 25 pound bag of BRM semolina online, shipping was almost as expensive as the flour itself, but still less per pound than what it costs locally.
Amazon collects their annual fee for Prime memberships (which is going up soon if it hasn't already) but I'm not sure how much of that they share with their 3rd party vendors, and I've gotten some things on Prime that couldn't possibly have made much profit for the 3rd party vendor. (Amazon charges them for the space they take up in an Amazon warehouse, too.)
BTW, Amazon is apparently going to start tagging which of their vendors are 'small businesses', though I don't know how they determine that.
Left over meatloaf and a salad here.
I have two Sharp Pebble dual-surface water stones so I have grits of 400/1000 and 3000/8000. I also have a Lansky kit that has a guide to hold the knife at the right angle, it has oil grits of 70, 120, 280, 600 and 1000. I use it on knives that need a whole new edge.
I don't use a steel much any more, I got a leather stropper and I use it to touch up the edges on my knives before using them, much like a barber does.
I'm convinced that most of the instructions out on the Internet for using a steel are wrong, anyway, and one of these days I'll run some microscope tests to demonstrate that.
I wonder if a sharpening stone could be part of carry-on luggage?
We had baked fish and a salad.
I'm making a meatloaf.
We got our 2nd round of booster shots a few days ago, my wife had a mild fever the next day but seems to be OK now.
We had to close the windows because a neighbor fired up his wood fireplace, and the whole neighborhood reeks of wood smoke.
I guess people don't understand that some of us cannot tolerate wood smoke. When we were building our house, both the architect and the builder kept asking if we wanted to include a fireplace. They said it would increase the retail value of the house. We said by the time we sell the house (or more likely, our kids do), we won't care if the retail value is a little higher. That was 26 years ago.
We had a fireplace in our old house, never used it in 15 years.
Burgers on the grill tonight, taking advantage of the warm weather. We've had the windows open, something we haven't been able to do for a while.
I'm making Moomies buns (slider size) for supper tonight, it's 80 and I'm going to use the grill for burgers.
I had some fresh bread with a little butter (and one slice with some honey), plus a salad.
I made semolina bread today. Every day is a new adventure, today the sesame seeds didn't stick to the dough as well as they usually do; I don't think I did anything different from last time, though.
When I was at Costco yesterday, the cost of a 12 pound bag of King Arthur AP flour has gone up again, it was $5.99 last summer, then it went up to $6.99 last fall, and now it's $7.99.
But I just read that in Germany and other European countries, they're seeing across-the-board producer cost increases of 40% over a year ago, and those are likely to get much worse as shortages from Russia and the Ukraine continue.
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