This morning we went back to DMV with what we thought were all the papers. Not. But we went home, found the rest of the needed papers miraculously...and went back this afternoon. The third girl we dealt was able to take what we had and get our licenses and our car registration completed. We walked out with South Carolina licenses and a number plate. And a check book that was sadly depleted. Again. We had thought of a vanity plate, but discovered that needs to be something in the future. I had thought it would be cool to have the number "VT 3678". Dear One has had 3678 since his first car eons ago. It is sad to let it go. Oh well. Into every life a little rain, etc...and as I write we are having a huge thunderstorm and actual sheets of rain. Quite beautiful. I did unplug my computer from its power supply, just in case. If it were Vermont, when the rain was over it would be refreshingly cool. I have not discovered that to happen here. Well, we have only been here two weeks plus a few days, so that is not a lot to go on.
Anyway, so the urgent business was done when we left DMV. It was a bit hard on the heart. We had already given up our Vermont number plate when we bought the car in Beaverton. Today we gave up our Oregon number plates AND our Vermont drivers' licenses. Sad. The door to the old life has shut behind us.
Dear One did not want to continue on with the errands that I felt were necessary to do today so he went home and I headed out again immediately (before I lost energy). It is just as well because by the time I got back it was supper time...! He would have hated all the running in and out of stores. What am I saying? He would not have done it at all...and would have cut the trip short. Myself, I prefer to spend all the time necessary to get the job done so I won't have to go out again. He has different ideas.
Smartly I had gotten some Tofurky sausages and some 100% whole wheat hot dog buns. Also some frozen curly fries to cook in the newest (and final!!!) kitchen toy: a Philips air fryer. The sausages took 45 seconds in the microwave. The fries took 8 minutes at 375 degrees F. They were very nice. Dear One asked how much oil I put on the fries. Zip. None. Not even a splash from a spray bottle. I did not really like the sausages so one of these days I am going to try some of the "Darn Good Sausages" recipe I found somewhere. I hope they are good.
When I was at the grocery store (well, when I was at ONE of the grocery stores today--I guess I missed Bi-Lo and Food Lion, but got all the rest) I had a real good mind to get some of the fluffy biscuits in a can to make the air fryer donuts Sister Johnson made at Relief Society shortly before we left our mission. Those donuts were SO GOOD. In fact, I made them once in Vermont and put on some homemade maple icing. They are addictive. I actually picked up two cans of the fluffy biscuits then put them back. I am having success with eating more healthy food so I didn't dare risk it. Maybe in three months (I like to do things in three-month spans for some reason...at least I use the Study Plans in Gospel Library and read The Book of Mormon every three months and feel virtuous plus I learn lots every time through...so why not do a new health plan for three months? We shall see...) well, maybe I will feel strong enough and will have made enough progress that I can afford to buy those biscuits and treat us. Maybe.
Another thing for today: I watched several YouTube videos on sprouting wheat and sprouted wheat bread and sprouted wheat flour. Some of them, though interesting, probably will take longer than I want to give to the project. I am sort of an instant-gratification person in some respects.
So, as far as the wheat project for today, I went to the garage, found the white winter wheat bucket and brought in a pan full. I put 1 1/2 cups of it in a quart jar then filled the jar with water, put on the cover then shook it. Since I cannot find any of the mesh lids I had for just this purpose, I put a Norwex cloth over the top of the jar and secured it with a rubber band from one of the bunches of kale I purchased in the last two weeks (see, saving some things comes in handy!!!) and set it on the counter. It will need to sit all night. Tomorrow I will empty it, rinse it, re-cover it, and let it begin sprouting. It should be sprouted enough in about 36 hours. At least for this rough kind of bread I plan to make.
The second part of the wheat project was to grind up the remaining 2 1/2 cups of wheat in the VitaMix then using 1 cup of the resulting flour I started some sour dough as Carolyn did in this video. This YouTube video is my inspiration for the wheat project. She seems more or less reasonable to me, so why not?! To make the sour dough starter I put one cup of the newly ground whole wheat flour in a 4-cup glass measuring bowl and added 1 cup of pineapple juice from a can of pineapple tidbits in their own juice and stirred well. I covered it with a clean cloth and will leave it until tomorrow night when I will add another cup of flour and pineapple juice. The third night I will add the flour but plain water. As I am sitting here I have forgotten if Carolyn adds molasses to the starter. I will have to check. I failed to do that.
Anyway, I feel that I have made progress today and now just have to put the whites going in the washing machine. It is amazing how fabulous it is to have a washer and dryer in your own home . I am so grateful we are in a position to have this luxury. When the laundry is going I will feel like I have done enough for today and will become prone and spend a while reading Gerald Lund's "The Coming of the Lord", which, though compiled fifty years ago, still is really interesting reading...
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