My "lazy" streak continues. After taking care of the critters, I decided to go and try to finish up my Christmas shopping. Fortunately I didn't have too many places to go I kept it in the Greater Hazel Dell - Salmon Creek area. Whenever I spend more than a couple of hours away from home I tend to not want to do anything once I get home.
I don't know why, but I just don't feel motivated once I come home. I usually just do the minimum and call it good. As I did the day earlier this week I sat with the boys on the pavement.
Today was a total day at home. There was a special request for dinner so I had to get to work...
AFTER taking care of the critters.
Tom mentioned that he wanted Chili Cheese Dogs for dinner. Chili has been on the menu every week for the past several weeks, so I got that down. Had most of the ingredients in the basement pantry, so that would be easy to accomplish. We had some Hebrew National hot dogs and cheese. The only thing that we needed was the buns. As I mentioned before the day was a home day. The next best thing...home made buns.
I got to work in the kitchen using Joshua Weissman's Multipurpose dough recipe. One that I have used in the past, but not recently. It's a bit more involved. It's basically Hokkaido Milk Bread. I'm not sure what the differences are, but his recipe is delicious! In whatever shape you make with it.
ANYWAY
It didn't occur to me to take photos of the process, but I made a tangzhong (milk, water, flour). Combined in a saucepan and then cooked until it forms a paste. This is added to the flour along with a yeast mixture, whole egg, egg yolk. It is then mixed until it forms a dough, to which three tablespoons of softened butter is added until well combined.
Blah Blah Blah, if you want to watch it made check out Joshua Weissman's video:
So, this is what I ended up with:
They are shaped pretty much like his, but they could have been baked a little long. No matter though, they are good! Who doesn't love homemade bread?
After the rolls were done I threw together the chili and then went outside to get evening food ready. I decided to spend some time outside with the piggoes. They had a treat of alfalfa pellets and then came over to lay down in the sun. Since I was sitting on the pavement they plopped down near me, or next to me...
These boys are super sweet and just love a good belly rub and a nap in the sun! Ted who is closest to my leg is the bigger of the two brothers. He likes to lean, a lot! So much that he is practically was sitting on my leg at first. Poor little Zeke tries to wedge in, but the brothers weren't going to let him.
It's nice to spend a few minutes with these goofballs. Shortly after I took the last photo I decided to feed everyone early and get inside to get the kitchen cleaned up and dinner heated up.
For some reason I was feeling pretty unmotivated. One might even say a little lazy. Meh, I'm not going to beat myself up and just go with how I feel instead of what I think I should do.
I had called for a chiropractic appointment the other day and was able to get an appointment for 2:45 this afternoon. So, right away I'm feeling pretty excited about the prospect of not being in pain so much of each day. Sometimes all I have to do is just step wrong and then I have a moment of shooting pain in my back.... :(
Once I was at her office and she got to work...I had a lot for her to work on. Everywhere! When she was finished, I tried to be careful with the chores. Most of the time I step wrong on some uneven ground and that's it. The real test would be sleeping. Which I had pain free sleep!
I have another appointment next week just to make sure. I hope to get one more appointment after that and then starting visiting her once a month to keep things in check.
Enough physical stuff...
In the morning I went out to check on the boys, they were sleeping in their house. I knew that if I stood at the door, one of them would wake up and the moment would be gone, so here is a not so great photo, but it's a photo...
It's hard to tell, but all four of the boys are here sleeping
I'm glad that they are sleeping here, it's so cold this week. They snuggle into the straw and every day they have little pieces of straw stuck in their hair, it's pretty cute! Or they have this look...
As we get closer to the weekend I look forward to having the weekend off from doing the critter chores. That will allow me to do something else instead.
