Bread and wallpaper

So what's the connection between bread and wallpaper? Just that they are both things I did today - baked bread and hung wallpaper. I've often heard people say that they don't have tine to make their own bread. My response is that the actual time spent on bread-making is quite small. If someone can watch TV for several hours in the evening, then they can also make bread. Although these days there are a lot of electric bread-makers around, I'm not sure the resulting loaf is the same as one made by hand.

But that's by the by. I made four loaves using a combination of stone-ground wholemeal flour, spelt flour, unbleached flour, buckwheat flour, and rice flour. For good measure I threw in a couple of handfuls of sunflower seeds and some ground flax seed. The loaves came out so good - two slices keep me going for a long time!

My husband and I have been renovating a 1920 Dutch Colonial in Eastern Maine for the last 6 years. We bought wallpaper for the bedrooms and main living room soon after moving in, expecting to be decorating quite quickly. Little did we realise what we had taken on, and I shall be telling some tale about that in future postings. Suffice it to say that we are extremely happy to have just finished wallpapering the first two rooms today.

Making bread and wallpapering are both satisfying for my soul. They both require a certain amount of dedication and skill to accomplish good results, and both give a feeling of achievement when finished.

Roll on tomorrow when we get to move into the bedroom, after having some excellent toast for breakfast, of course.