Nasty Encounter

Oh my God! The smell of bread baking in the oven! It’s positively thrilling to smell a smell that has been thrilling people for thousands of years. Baked bread was found at an archaeological site in Jordan and carbon dated to 14, 400 years ago. I had bread making classes in both France and Vancouver, but I never took to it. My sweet tooth had me focused on pastries, cakes, ice cream, cakes, tarts and pies. All the essential food groups.

I make bread twice each week now. I’m enjoying making yeast bread right now, but I also love making flat breads—particularly roti. And I have plans to make scones and buns. I love my new hobby! I watch lots of YouTube videos of people making different kinds of breads, and it’s as much fun as baking.

When we went for our morning walk with our friends, it was wonderful to come home, open the door and smell that fabulous fragrance of baked bread. And even better than the smell, is eating it.

Yesterday was dull, cool and damp, but it didn’t rain. I passed the day watching videos, puttering around the house, and I had a nap yesterday because I found walking with our friends challenging. I had to stop a couple of times to rest. My rests are brief; it only takes me a minute to recover. 

In the afternoon we went to Elder Cedar to walk, and Sheba did her thing of barking at people in the trail, and I did my usual thing of yelling that she was safe, but the two women were extremely nasty. They got very angry and the younger one suddenly yelled to the older one, “Take his photo and we’ll go to the police.” 

I pulled my hoodie over my face. And the older woman came to try to pull my hoodie off, but I told her if she touched me, I’d take her photo and do the same thing. Sheba was off leash and the park is on on-leash area, so they had every right to be complain to me, but their manner was so horrid, that I turned my back and we returned to the car and went elsewhere to walk.

Today has dawned bright and sunny. It’s going to be a three-walk day, and I will also have a soak. It might be the last of the season because I will soon be draining the hot tub for Winter. We’ll go shopping in the village. Our wonderful Home and Garden store closes for good next week, so I hope to get some pet food from them before they go. (I didn’t. The shelves were empty and being dismantled.) Our pet food store closed early in the Summer, and the Home and Garden store picked up carrying pet food. But now they are closing, and so my future will involve more trips to Nanaimo. Sigh.