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Jo and Frank travel to Canada in the summer of 2022 to do two caravans. The Viking Trail Caravan spends 54 days in Newfoundland while the Maratines Caravan spends almost the same in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. A total of more than 97 days before we head home to Virginia.
A Visit to Land Yacht Harbor Airstream Park
Winter 2047
(A fun fictional look 25 years into the future)
by
Frank Hogg
I picked up my father's rebuilt Airstream trailer from the dealer in Ohio and drove down to Land Yacht Harbor Airstream Park in Melbourne Florida. It has been at least 20 years, maybe longer since I've been there with my parents way back in the 20s and I was eager to see the difference that had occurred over the years.
The drive was long but was made much easier by the auto-pilot in my Tesla Cyber Truck. I got off I95 and turned down John Rhodes Boulevard. It is a lot different from what I remembered with a lot of new construction and new commercial properties. I almost missed the turn into Land Yacht Harbor Airstream Park because of the changes. There is a tall fence or wall around everything and as I pulled in, the automatic gate opened apparently somehow being able to know who I was. I drove down Midlane Place and my navigation system guided me right to my site which was a pull-through site and very easy to navigate into.
A fellow named Jim came over to help me get hooked up although it wasn't very difficult with the new systems they are employed now. He stayed and we talked a bit. Jim offered to take me around and show me everything that was new, which I accepted eagerly.
We started off with a clubhouse tour which from the outside was very reminiscent of what I remembered. There were video screens everywhere with useful information about park activities. Everything changed once we went through the front door. On the right where I remembered a wall was now open to a very nicely equipped camp store. A row of vending machines offered everything you could ask for. On the left, the door that used to be the post office is now the door into the showers. The Post Office has not been needed for many years.
We walked a little further and I was pleased to see that the billiard tables were still there and the rest of it looked pretty much the same except on the left was the new bigger library in what was the corner of the main floor.
Jim led me through the library into the new laundry which was where the library used to be. He showed me the fancy new washer dryer folding machines that were there. He said it was a big deal getting them a few years ago. All you had to do was put your clothes in this basket and set it on the conveyor and the machine took the basket in, washed and dried the clothes and folded them, and put them back in the basket! All you had to do was come and pick it up when it was done! He said that people really loved them and didn’t really miss not having the drying yards.
We then went out and took a right turn to the south towards the back of the building. I was pleased to see that the woodshop was still there as I remembered it many years ago. Jim said it was used for storage and not used as a woodshop anymore. The new woodshop was to the right and extended off the back of the main building where a series of old sheds used to be. We went in the large workshop door with lots of wonderful equipment! They even had a 3-D printer which they used to reproduce parts on some of their old Airstream trailers since parts were no longer available. They even had a CAD system, very impressive.
Back outside we faced the southern border wall and the boardwalk that I was pretty sure wasn't there before. Jim told me it has only been there 10 years or so. It is a 6-foot wide boardwalk that goes down both sides of the park front to back attached to the outside border walls. We walked up the slight ramp and turned left (E) towards the back of the park and walked on the boardwalk. The wall here on our right was much taller than the wall on the rest of the park which Jim said was because of the soundproofing from the industrial area on the other side of the wall. Every so often along the boardwalk, there would be a little bump out with a bench. Some of them even had a shade over them. Video screens were everywhere replacing the old bulletin boards. An occasional tree provided shade while we walked. There were people sitting reading and talking. It was a lovely walk. Jim said it was much easier on everybody’s legs to walk on the boardwalk rather than walking on the pavement and safer too. We got to the back of the park and things looked quite a bit different. The entire back 40 feet or so was occupied with trailers that were stored there. I mentioned to Jim I thought this was not done before and that the people left their trailers on their sites. Jim said they didn't do that anymore, that those who want to leave their trailers here could park here in the back if there was room. Otherwise, there is a place next-door that stored trailers or they took them home as it’s a lot less expensive that way.
I wondered how that worked. I really didn't remember how it was back when my parents were here. He told me that if you were a shareholder you could pay a yearly fee for a particular site that was yours whenever you wanted it and then you paid an
additional fee by the month for the time that you came down here but you couldn’t leave your trailer on the site for more than a month if you weren't here. It seemed like a pretty reasonable way to do it.
I wondered how they paid for all of these additions. Jim said it was done in a variety of ways. One of the ways was asking people to include LYH in their wills which a number of people did. There are other ways, for instance, you could buy a brick in the brick path in the front garden area. He said he’ll show me that later. The camp store was a good source of revenue too. They had other fundraising events and various things that people could contribute to for doing things in the park much like the go-fund-me system.
We continued our walk across the back and I noticed there was a rear entrance in the back that I was sure wasn't there before. Jim said that that was done about 15 years ago. LYH made a deal with the property owners to allow access to North Road which made traveling for shopping much quicker, although most people use delivery services these days.
We got to the north side of the park and got back up on the boardwalk and continued our walk to the front (W) of the park. There were the same bump-outs with benches and enclosures with trees for shade and people walking and talking and having a wonderful time. When we got to the center of the park the boardwalk stopped and we walked down into a large recreation area that had pickleball courts, badminton courts, and a whole bunch of other things in what used to be a large grass area across from the pond (which now had canoes and paddle boats). Across from this where there used to be bocce ball and shuffleboard had been reimagined with the tennis courts and various other things. Even a swimming pool and spa.
Back on the boardwalk and heading east to the front we got up to about the halfway point there was now a small pavilion in what was an old drying yard. Jim told me that they had entertainment there. He said it was also where they had their water treatment plant. All the water in the park was now done with reverse osmosis and was very drinkable.
We continued along to the front of the park where at the end of the sites we came to a beautifully landscaped garden with curved paths, places to sit down with small little water features and lots of flowers. It was here Jim said were the bricks you could buy. People paid money to have their names on them. Some people liked to leave a little remembrance of the time they spent at Land Yacht Harbor Airstream Park. This helped finance some of the things that were done.
We got to Midlane Place at the crosswalk. I waited on a car that was coming but Jim said, no problem the gates won’t open if there's anyone in the crosswalk. The other side was more of the same lovely gardens and walks and water treatments with wonderful places to sit and enjoy the time. The wall between these gardens and John Rodes Boulevard was built in such a way that most of the road noise could not to be heard at all! When we got to the south side of the park there was the boardwalk again and we walked up on that and walked back down past the garage and the woodshed and back to where we started. I had a lot of questions and Jim was ready to answer them so we went over to the pavilion area and sat down and had a nice talk.
Jim said that converting the center areas to pull-through sites had several advantages. It did not reduce the number of total sites, we still had 300. The extra length of each site allowed for two vehicles on the site whereas before you can only have one and that alleviated a lot of the parking problems.
The old 9x10 sheds were replaced with sheds on the same square footage but they were longer and narrower in order to accommodate the new space. Another thing that was quite nice was that they were able to reverse the direction on two of the one-way roads so that you did not have to drive down the wrong way in order to park the trailer for any of the back-in sites along the side which was really nice.
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Note: I put this imagined story together from ideas I picked up during my one year as President (2020-2022). My idea is this would give the shareholders and long-term users a glimpse of what might be done. I hope this starts a discussion with new and even better ideas.
Are these possible? Are they wanted? Keep an open mind as you consider these thoughts. While they ‘could’ be done doesn’t mean they ‘should’ be done. Remember this is 25 years in the future when I’ll be 102! It is easy to say that none of these things could be done but indeed all of them could be done given enough time, money, and effort. But I think it is for the younger among us, those not 77 like myself, to decide what to do because it is they who will benefit from everything that is done.
Frank Hogg March 2022
————————— Epilog/rational
Let’s consider them one at a time.
Boardwalk along the property fence line:
Is there room? Yes. Behind my motorhome on Alpha #4 is 13 feet to the fence/property line. In the future with pull-through sites in the middle, you would likely not put large RVs on the sides so there is plenty of room for a 6-foot boardwalk. The ground slopes into the ditch which would not be impacted by a boardwalk above it. The boardwalk by itself could be at near ground level and go over the ditch. The golf carts use these areas for maintenance but because of the soft ground at the bottom of the ditch, they stay well away from the fence only going close to mow which would not be needed if a boardwalk was there. Conclusion: Yes, it’s possible. Why do it at all? Jo and I often go to Erna Nixon or Wickham Zoo Linear Park to walk along their boardwalks. It’s easier on the bones and we find we can walk twice as far and not be tired. Also being out of the street is nice and shade from the trees makes walking during the hot days enjoyable.
Post Office space used for showers:
What will the USPS be like in 25 years? This story assumes that paper letters will be completely gone by then and package delivery will not use the PO. The current PO is next to the bathroom which makes the plumbing for showers easy. This could also be used for the laundry instead of moving the library for the same plumbing reason.
Camp Store instead of the office:
While we would likely still need an office it probably wouldn’t need to be as big as what we have now. Perhaps the corner office inside the current office would suffice. I had considered a very small, “Camp Store” as a set of shelves on the left wall as you walk in the door but it would not be big enough to offer much. However, opening up that space to the hall makes for a much bigger space and could be a reasonable source of income and convenience to the denizens of LYH.
To Preserve History, A National Park Preps For Climate Change
To Preserve History, A National Park Preps For Climate Change | WBUR News
We were there on our caravan. It's a shame but I hope they're doing the right thing.
We were there on our caravan. It's a shame but I hope they're doing the right thing.
"Doin' The Southwest Adventure Caravan 2015" eBook
This eBook has hundreds of hot links to campgrounds, destinations and interactive maps to help you create your own caravan. 572 pictures, 56 interactive maps in over 430 pages. Due to the large size and interactive nature of the eBook it is not available as a printed book.
This Book Is Written For:
(1) Anyone who wants to read about or make this trip, be it tent camping or any RV, it doesn’t have to be a Airstream.
(2) For those who like to read a humorous account of 50+ days of travel in a Airstream Caravan throughout the Southwest four corner states of Colorado, Arizona, Utah and New Mexico.
(3) For those who have wondered what an Airstream Caravan is like, and what to expect while traveling on a caravan.
(4) For those who would like to do and go where this caravan went but don’t have the time to do it all at one time.
Amazon.com: Doin' The Southwest Adventure Caravan 2015 eBook: Frank T. Hogg: Kindle Store
Amazon.com: Doin' The Southwest Adventure Caravan 2015 eBook: Frank T. Hogg: Kindle Store
Special Report: The Keyhole Seven
Special Report: The Keyhole Seven | Outside Online
On day 25 of our caravan we arrived at Zion, just one day after these seven people died. It was an eire feeling because they were in the same campground as we were and the rangers had roped off their campsites. My thoughts on this are in day 25 and 26 of the book. Very sad.
On day 25 of our caravan we arrived at Zion, just one day after these seven people died. It was an eire feeling because they were in the same campground as we were and the rangers had roped off their campsites. My thoughts on this are in day 25 and 26 of the book. Very sad.
Doin' Sugar video links
These YouTube videos and almost all of the pictures in this book were taken by me with an iPhone 6S Plus. My hands tend to shake which is why some of the pics are blurry. Other pictures were taken by Jo Alderman or other sources properly attributed. (I hope)
Some links to more pictures on Facebook:
Doin' Sugar: I'm doing a play for the first time based on the film, "Some Like It Hot!" - Kindle edition by Frank T. Hogg. Arts & Photography Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.
Wading through photos
I will include several dozen back stage photos I took while doing the play. Things I never knew existed and things that I think are interesting to see. What I discovered doing the play is that what the audience sees is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. What goes into making it is fascinating. I'm told the Cocoa Village Playhouse is very unique and as close to a real Broadway Theatre as you'll find outside of NYC.
I have over 600 photos so it's turning into a real project just deciding which ones to include. The other thing I think is interesting is what the girls look like before and after they have their stage makeup and costumes on. Sometimes it's hard for me to tell who is who.
Back to work if I'm going to make that deadline...
I have over 600 photos so it's turning into a real project just deciding which ones to include. The other thing I think is interesting is what the girls look like before and after they have their stage makeup and costumes on. Sometimes it's hard for me to tell who is who.
Back to work if I'm going to make that deadline...
My Second Book, "Doin' Sugar" is almost ready
Doin' Sugar is about my recent experience doing the play, Sugar, based on the movie, Some Like It Hot. I never did anything like this before and I wanted to document everything about it. I think you'll find it very interesting. My target release date is the end of April 2016.
It's been awhile...
I think about posting something here but have never gotten around to it. I'll be heading south for the winter and I'm thinking I'll have time to do some thinking and writing. In the meantime I thought you might get a kick out of my journal about working on my house for the last two weeks...
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11/25-11/27 Monday through Wednesday mostly what I did was try to stay warm. My gas heater is working well but it's cold out and I don't use it to heat the back while I'm sleeping. It was 52 on T-day morning. However, I did repair and paint the old exterior door John gave me that I'll use for the garage door in the back. I brought it in the LR to repair it and because I had nothing else I wanted to do I painted it... My new tankless water heater came in and as soon as it gets a bit warmer I'll work to put that in.
11/28 T-day with Jo at Katrina's house. Good food good weather.
11/29 Black Friday. I didn't go anywhere. But I did order a new MacBook Pro. I'm hoping the better display will be easier on my old eyes. Today I installed the two back doors and now I can secure the house when I leave. I carried the new water heater to the basement and will work on that tomorrow. It was 45 and sunny today. I could hear lawn mowers in the neighborhood. Probably mowing leaves although some of my lawn could use mowing. I think I'll mow a little bit on Sunday. Just to clean out the gas in the tank and so I can say I mowed my grass in December.
11/30 Saturday. 7AM, 25 out, 51 in my bedroom, 62 in LR. A new low but I don't feel cold yet. I turned on the electric heater back here and turned up the fire as I walked by on my way to the john so I expect it'll warm up shortly. Supposed to get above freezing by noon. By then the sun will not be on the east wall where I have to knock a hole in the cinder block for the water heater vent. Maybe the sun will make it warm enough so I'll check it out. For now I'll just have breakfast, watch TV and then collect the tools I'll need...
12/1 Sunday. 50 inside this morning but it got up to 54 outside by afternoon which was really nice. I'm getting used to these cold mornings. I chiseled the 5" hole in the cinder block for the water heater exhaust and it about did me in. I did have just enough energy left to tar the vent boots on the roof which I hope will fix that small leak when it rains really hard. But I was beat after all that and took the rest of the day off.
12/2 Monday. 58 inside this morning, 35 out. (I forgot to close my bedroom door) My right arm is sore from holding that chisel for so long yesterday. I spent several hours on the phone and net ordering parts. Otherwise I just took it easy for once. It was overcast and without sun my ambition drops to near zero.
12/3 Tuesday. 55 inside, 40 out. Feels normal now. Cloudy but a little sun. John is coming over about 11 and we're going to take the dump trailer with all the construction trash (mostly roofing) and pile on my 55 boxes of shingles down to Katrina and Dirk's parents farm and dump it in their big hole. Saves me the trouble of wrapping those boxes in plastic and dumping fees. I weighed one of the boxes and it was 50 pounds. I would have had to handle (move, lift) each box 4 times otherwise. I'm hoping John and Bobby will do most of the lifting and I'll only have to help load some of it. BTW 55 times 50 pounds is 2,750 pounds and I've already lifted them twice. No wonder my back hurts... John and Bob showed up at a little after 10 and we loaded all the boxes of siding, all 55 of them and took them to the farm where we met Katrina, drove down a long heavily rutted (I said they weren't ruts, they were canyons) and got rid of all that crap. With the garage and basement free of those boxes I straightened up the garage, mowed the grass and leaves to run the gas out of the mower and took it, the tiller and a whole bunch of stuff down to the basement. I can put my car in the garage now!
12/4 Wednesday. 61 in, 50 out, going to be a nice day. It got really warm and nice as the day wore on, mid 60's and sunny. I went down and mounted the new water heater in the basement and installed the vent. That was heavy work as it weighs over 50 lbs and I had to lift it several times to mount it on the wall. But that's done and now all I have is plumbing.
12/5 Thursday. 64 in, 48 out, overcast. But now it's noon and kinda gloomy out and I have absolutely no mojo to do anything. I'm just kinda puttering. I went to the basement where it was cold and dank so I decided not to do the water heater today. Last week I bought a 8 pound turkey breast thinking it would fit in my little oven, it didn't so I borrowed a crock pot and have it in there now, tented with tin foil because it's too big to put the lid on. I may or may not have turkey for dinner... Ah, the sun just came out and what a difference that makes... It was still chilly in the basement so I avoided doing anything down there. Instead I cleaned up outside and hauled a bunch of stuff to the curb. The turkey seems to be cooked but i don't have anything to go with it. I mostly wanted it for the leftovers anyway. That about sums up this not very productive day.
12/6 Friday. 64 in, 58 out. Rain forecast for the day but it'll get to 65 they say. It's going to get really cold after this so I better get to doing the water heater today... No sun = no ambition. I know I should do something in the basement but so far nothing... The weather almost got better, the sun almost came out and my ambition almost came back. Other than walking around the yard I haven't done a damn thing.
12/7 Saturday. 39/60 temps. Rain and overcast. Winter storm warning. Talk of freezing rain with near freezing temps. I'll head over to Lowe's and get a bunch of stuff to install the WH in the basement and maybe try running a heater down there. Or I could do stuff in the house like work on the other china cabinet or paint the bathroom doors. Or not. No sun, no mojo... And as it turned out I didn't even go to Lowe's. But I did move a bunch of stuff to the new addition, tools and supplies etc. And I did a few things in the fix up area, but not much. Getting really cold out, windy and just not nice.
12/8 Sunday. 33/52 Seems much colder because of the dampness outside. Supposed to sleet today so I have no plans of going out. And at the moment I have no plans of doing anything. Seems my mojo went south for the winter so I better go after it...
Trying something new
I recently got an iPad mini. My reason was to try to see if I could replace my laptop with it. So far it's not quite there and I still need my laptop for a few things. But the iPad is getting close. For example I can post to my blogs with it, I'm using it now with a very nice app called Blogsy. In some ways Blogsy is better than doing it the old way on the MacBook and I'm going to see if I can completely switch to the iPad from here on. I'm also going to try to do much if not all my writing on the iPad. Right now Pages is very good start and they are working on getting Schrivener ported to iOS. With that and a few other things the iPad will be able to do it all.
That's my hope anyway.
Posted with BlogsyA Test To See If I Can Live For Free
Not freedom, free as in no cost. Well, no, you can't but maybe you can live well by spending much less, eating better, being more healthy and enjoying life. Some years ago I realized I was working two weeks each month just to live at the house I was in. That money was not invested, it went to costs, taxes , etc. It was out the window never to come back. Sure it was nice at the lake and all but it just took too much to be there. I downsized and moved to Virginia. My current house is ¼ the size of the lake house but I am as comfortable if not more so and whenever I want to look at a lake I can drive 10 minutes to one.
Now I'm wondering if I should downsize even more. While it doesn't cost much to live here it does take a lot of my time. I have to mow the grass every 4 days and there's always something to fix, paint, make , etc. If I could afford it I could just, "Call the guy" to do it but then I'd have to work to afford it.
I told you all that to tell you this…
I've been thinking about selling all my, 'stuff' and my house and car, buying a used motorhome and living full time in that. The idea has a lot of appeal. I could travel and see stuff I'll never get to see otherwise. I could stay at campgrounds on lakes or in the mountains or desert. I could live in Florida in the winter and north in the summer. I could go anywhere, do anything and not have all the shortcomings of living in one place.
But…
Can I do it cheaply enough? Will I enjoy it or is this just a pipe dream? Only one way to find out is to try it.
I'm going to go to Rocky Knob National Campground on the Blue Ridge Parkway for a week and see. I'll have no cell service, no internet, not even a TV. How will I survive??? But during that week I'll take notes about all kinds of things I'd need to know to do this permanently. How much water, how much propane fuel, how much gas, etc. If this works out okay then I'll try it again but for two weeks and see how it goes.
There are a lot of people doing this and all seem to love it. It may not be for me but I'll know more next week than I do now and I'll let you know in more detail than you probably want to know just how it worked out.
Look for an update to this on or about June 4th.
App Glut
The App Store has around a half million apps, a lot of them free and I have done my best to get far too many of them. I have 291 in iTunes but only 228 on my iPhone. I don't know what most of them do. It's gotten to the point were when I hear of a new neat app and I attempt to download it I find I already have it.
I 'almost' downloaded, 'Path' just now but I realized that with such a non-descriptive name I would soon forget what it is, does or that I even have it. And if that isn't bad enough I also have 632 songs, 1,019 photos and 34 videos. I rarely use my iPhone to listen to music so why do I have 632 songs on it? Simple, because there's room for them. Even with all that I have 6.5GB free, that's 6,500MB or enough for 2,000 more songs and still have room left over. Now you can get an iPhone with 64GB which is TWICE what I have now! Imagine what it'll be next year or 5 years from now. What in the world are we going to do with all that room?
I was watching a show on TWiT.tv about new stuff and they mentioned a neat app for the iPad called, "Paper". At first I assumed it was a way to eliminate paper in an office or something along those lines. No, it's a drawing program! I guess, "Draw" was taken. My point is that there are so many apps that descriptive names and icons are pretty much useless. There is no easy way to know what any of these apps do without running them. It would be nice if Apple or Google could find a easy way around this.
In the meantime I'm going to start deleting extra apps... As soon as I figure out what they do.
I 'almost' downloaded, 'Path' just now but I realized that with such a non-descriptive name I would soon forget what it is, does or that I even have it. And if that isn't bad enough I also have 632 songs, 1,019 photos and 34 videos. I rarely use my iPhone to listen to music so why do I have 632 songs on it? Simple, because there's room for them. Even with all that I have 6.5GB free, that's 6,500MB or enough for 2,000 more songs and still have room left over. Now you can get an iPhone with 64GB which is TWICE what I have now! Imagine what it'll be next year or 5 years from now. What in the world are we going to do with all that room?
I was watching a show on TWiT.tv about new stuff and they mentioned a neat app for the iPad called, "Paper". At first I assumed it was a way to eliminate paper in an office or something along those lines. No, it's a drawing program! I guess, "Draw" was taken. My point is that there are so many apps that descriptive names and icons are pretty much useless. There is no easy way to know what any of these apps do without running them. It would be nice if Apple or Google could find a easy way around this.
In the meantime I'm going to start deleting extra apps... As soon as I figure out what they do.
Honey, Maple, Peanut Butter Sandwich
I like PP&J sandwiches. Occasionally I'll use honey instead of jelly. The problem is that honey soaks through some breads and that makes it kinda messy to eat. I also like Smuckers Natural peanut butter but it is kind of a pain because you have to mix it before you can use it. This is difficult when the jar is new because there isn't much room to stir it. I usually dig down and get some solid peanut butter a few times until there's more room in the jar. Then I mix it and keep it in the refrigerator which stops it from separating.
I was about to do this one day last week when I noted the honey setting behind the peanut butter and decided to experiment. I poured off the peanut oil and replaced it with honey and added some pure maple syrup because I noticed that too. You have to add a lot more honey than the oil you took out to make it spreadable. But after about 4 days the peanut butter started to get really stiff so I added even more honey and heated the jar in the microwave for 30 seconds.
This combo tastes really good and it doesn't separate like the peanut oil. The other advantage for us lazy bastards is you only have to put one thing on the bread instead of two. Kinda like Goober Grape but with better tasting peanut butter.
I'll update this in a bit to let you know it adding more honey kept it soft enough to spread over time.
Update: The honey didn't make it softer. As a matter of fact I had to nuke it for 30 seconds to make it soft enough to use until it was gone. Tastes good. I'll do it again on my next jar but I'll not pour off the peanut oil this time.
Update: It works much better if you do not pout off the peanut oil. The resulting mixture has the added benefit of not separating and no more need to stir before use.
I was about to do this one day last week when I noted the honey setting behind the peanut butter and decided to experiment. I poured off the peanut oil and replaced it with honey and added some pure maple syrup because I noticed that too. You have to add a lot more honey than the oil you took out to make it spreadable. But after about 4 days the peanut butter started to get really stiff so I added even more honey and heated the jar in the microwave for 30 seconds.
This combo tastes really good and it doesn't separate like the peanut oil. The other advantage for us lazy bastards is you only have to put one thing on the bread instead of two. Kinda like Goober Grape but with better tasting peanut butter.
I'll update this in a bit to let you know it adding more honey kept it soft enough to spread over time.
Update: The honey didn't make it softer. As a matter of fact I had to nuke it for 30 seconds to make it soft enough to use until it was gone. Tastes good. I'll do it again on my next jar but I'll not pour off the peanut oil this time.
Update: It works much better if you do not pout off the peanut oil. The resulting mixture has the added benefit of not separating and no more need to stir before use.
ISLAGIATT - It Sounded Like A Good Idea At The Time...
I ran across this site, Breadtopia and watched some very interesting videos about bread making. One of them talked about letting the dough set for many hours, 8 or more and that doing that developed character or some such. I thought that letting the dough set overnight would require no work and therefore fall into the "lazy" category. I mixed up a batch as noted below, transferred it to a bowl and let it set overnight for about 16 hours. Then I transfered the dough to the baking pans. It looked a little odd but I attributed that to the character it received by that long setting.
Then the trouble began. After 2 hours it became obvious the dough wasn't going to rise enough to bake. I "guess" the yeast had died. Not wanting to waste it I put it back in the bread machine, added yeast, salt and sugar and ran the dough cycle again. Then back into the pans and wait for it to rise and then bake it. The resultes were exactly the same as if I hadn't bothered doing all that, "character" stuff.
Live and learn.
Then the trouble began. After 2 hours it became obvious the dough wasn't going to rise enough to bake. I "guess" the yeast had died. Not wanting to waste it I put it back in the bread machine, added yeast, salt and sugar and ran the dough cycle again. Then back into the pans and wait for it to rise and then bake it. The resultes were exactly the same as if I hadn't bothered doing all that, "character" stuff.
Live and learn.
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