Sourdough Bread--2nd Attempt

This time it turned out much better! I'm not sure about this bread, though. This one is pretty sour. I don't care for sour bread and it makes David's stomach hurt. I thought this was supposed to be a mild sourdough. I may give it one more try before I give up.

Homemade Granola

I made this for the first time for breakfast this morning. It's yummy!

Peanut Butter Granola

We put some in a bowl and added milk to it. Yummy! It's also good just by itself.

Knitted Hat for Judah

This morning I finished this hat for Judah. It turned out better than I expected!


Can't wait to see him in it!

A Precious Homemade Gift for Judah

Erin Rhodes (16 yrs. old) made this precious cardigan for Judah.....

Isn't it beautiful and she did such a wonderful job on it!

Sourdough Bread

This was my first attempt at sourdough bread. Starter and instructions were given to me by Joann Jolin. She is taking a culinary arts class at their homeschool co-op and is learning to do this. What I found out after baking this bread is that I was missing a step in my instructions and that could be part of the reason why the bread did not rise. The other reason is that my house has been staying at about 60-64 degrees. It kinda came out flat as a pancake and hard as a rock. Had a good flavor, though.

I am about to bake my second loaf today. With the added step to my instructions, it did rise. YAY! I will post pics of my second loaf if I can remember before everyone tears into it! :0)

Surface Tension Experiment--Swirled Milk

One drop of each color of food coloring and dish soap.


We added another drop of each color and a little more dish soap.

Science Experiments for Science Club--Getting a Reaction

GREEN SLIME

Hannah is pouring the Borax solution into the water, glue, food coloring solution

Instant Slime!

Looks kinda gross, huh? But it feels really cool!

Here it is stored away in a baggie

SLOPPY SLIME
It feels really cool. It's slimy and then it's hard. When you squeeze it the slime turns to a solid, but as soon as you let go it's a liquid again.




ROCKET COLA
Diet Cola


Orange Cola


Twist Up


The diet coke was by far the most volatile of the 3. It rocketed out of the bottle to about 31" with only one mento.

The Orange only rocketed about 3" with 2 mentos.

The Twist Up only rocketed about 1 1/2" with 3 mentos.

What fun! We will have to try this again when Daddy and Dakota are home to see it!!