A lovely walk this morning with a few people there. Sundays are my favorite day to walk as usually there is no one. It’ll be interesting to see what happens when the weather turns.
Yesterday the pool was quite busy and I shared a lane. I noticed more of the ‘regulars’ there so it must be the news is out that the pool is open. It was still great. This week will be different as I have 2 days of doing other things and then next Sunday we’re off to Tahoe for the week. We do plan to use the gym at least 2x and walk when we can.
Here’s a sample of the Sashiko I’m doing on a pair of old jeans.
I got these 2 books from the library. Both are quite good with patterns. I liked the one on the left more.
Working with the denim was more difficult but it’s just a patch so I’m not concerned about even stitching. Just random running stitches.
Here’s a picture of the sourdough rye I made. It had good flavor and it did a fairly nice spring for being rye. Rye is hard to do but I’ll do another loaf eventually.
I’ve been playing around with sourdough focaccia too. I still haven’t gotten the top all crispy like the YouTube channel showed. I’m thinking the oven needed to be hotter?? Not sure, but I’ll keep trying. I wanted to perfect a bread that we could use for sub sandwiches and the focaccia seemed like a good option.
This morning, I plan on going to the gym for just weights, no treadmill as I walked this morning and I don’t want my knee to be overworked. Then I have double-stuffed potatoes to make and freeze. Yesterday PGE had our power off all day so I couldn’t use the oven.
Flylady zone is the bedroom. If you follow along a tip I read from Peter Walsh was ‘ask yourself what the room in question is for’, so like the bedroom is to sleep, rest, etc. So remove anything from the bedroom that doesn’t support that. No electronics for instance. After having done Feng Shui for years, I do think what you have around you does affect you on some level. I don’t do FS anymore but the principles of FS and minimalism are quite similar. Keeping things harmonious and uncluttered is key, along with subdued color palettes.
I get my labs tomorrow so I should know by Friday what we’re going to do with treatment.
Tahoe Girl 
Your bread looks great! Every time I try to add rye to my sourdough, it cracks so that big pieces of the loaf fall off, the whole top, for example!
I love that sashiko. It seems like it would be a lot of fun.
Rye bread is definitely different. This was good recipe. The Sashiko is fun.
I think one of my next baking projects will be to create a non-sourdough recipe for rye bread that includes as much rye flour as possible. I inherited a recipe from my grandfather that I used to make, and I will start with that. It included some cocoa powder! That must have been mostly to give it a little more dark color.
When I first went back to baking bread after a brief hiatus, I bought a few bags of rye flour, which I’ve been keeping in the freezer, and if for no other reason than that I want to use that, I will try.
I have heard of adding the cocoa to the rye bread, maybe I’ll research that too.