Personal Note

It does not sound like much. You can walk for four miles. Can’t you? Since last October when I woke up coughing up blood and ended up having my upper left node removed. It is fair to say my aerobic fitness is not that hot. As in walking up stairs gets me breathing hard. Last year I was working up to walking a half marathon and made it to ten miles. Almost there and then bleach.

There was some interruptions. Having said that, we’re back on the trail to walking a half marathon. There is no date for that. But for the first time this year I’m on my way.

But what of you, have you walked four miles recently? Three miles? Two? People in America do not tend to walk. They drive. So, perhaps, it is not too much to think that I am now walking further than people normally do. Note, I’m not saying they cannot. But they haven’t. So what can they do?

What can you do? What have you done?

This is a place to share successes. Yet, without mistakes and failures, you don’t learn. After my first “good” loaf I took off on changing things. I had failures. Yet, I don’t know enough about the bread process to know just where I went wrong.

I think part of it was too wet dough. But was I using a starter that wasn’t fully ready yet? For a loaf we wanted to eat I had to return to the basics. Verify the starter by float testing it. Verify the dough by measuring everything out completely and not futzing with it later. I did both of these things yesterday.

And gee, just like Jack says, it works. It works well. Really well. On to repeating it!