Down the rabbit hole

So, we've been spending a lot of time just sleeping, because it's winter, and there's not much to forage for, anyway. But this morning, one of the sentries started thumping, because he saw a hawk! I mean, a REAL hawk! So the few of us who were out foraging dove for the underbrush and froze, and the hawk went away.

Anyway, the burrow is nice and cozy, with many of us in it, so it's quite cozy. Obviously, it was a pain getting Verizon to run the cablemodem down the burrow, but it was very helpful, since we can now get weather reports without leaving the den! Also, typing is difficult without fingers. But we manage.

Oh, and I saw a PETA billboard which I just didn't get. It showed a mink in a cage, which is good, right? But the billboard said that PETA thought that people SHOULDN'T kill the mink?!?!?! I mean, WTF???!?!? It's IN A CAGE! Why NOT kill it? IT CAN'T GET YOU!!!

Food is good.

So, I've been sick for the past couple days, and I haven't left the house to go shopping. I haven't gone shopping for several weeks, and we're running out of stuff.

Now, when I say "we're running out of food", understand that I mean, "we can now only feed a family of six for two or three months." I mean, we're out of milk, eggs, bread, cheese, vegetables, fruit, and so forth -- but we've got at least five pounds of dried beans, twenty pounds of flour, twenty pounds of sugar, canned goods up the wazoo and down the other wazoo, and so forth.

So I wanted bread. And I didn't want to leave the house to get it. So I put flour, salt, yeast, and water in the Kitchenaid mixer, and mixed it all together. And I stuck the bowl of the mixer in the oven, which I'd goten to, oh, maybe 150 degrees or so, to rise. And I shaped the dough into four little loaves and put them on my Silpat on top of a cookie sheet, and let the little loaves rise again. And I baked it at 450 degrees for half an hour, spraying water in the oven first to make steam to develop a crispy crust.

Bread is good.