Goals for the Day - Updated: Two out of three ain't bad

Over the last couple days, I've discovered that I need to keep my daily goals/to-do list pretty modest.

My goals for the day are this:

• Write a letter - This is a letter that is a few months overdue.  Letter writing is something that I am always wanting to do more of, but never really end up doing.
• Make bread - Because bread
• Eat food - I've not done this enough.  Funny how I haven't gotten around to eating as regularly these last couple days due to James wrangling or Thomas holding.

If I get two out of these three done, I'll be thrilled.

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Two out of three goals (nearly) accomplished.I have eaten food today, but that was made easier by taking the boys for a picnic with Sarah.  Then bread dough is rising (too quickly in this heat), so it looks like I will accomplish two of my three goals for the day.  Go me!

Speaking of bread, here is a recipe that I've been making for quite a while.

http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/oatmeal-toasting-and-sandwich-bread-recipe 

I generally use the recipe on the side of my King Arthur bread flour bag, though.

It makes a pretty decent loaf of sandwich bread.  About the only issue I still have with the recipe may have something to do with how I double the recipe.  If I am going to go through the work of making bread, I'd rather get two loaves instead of one.  The problem is that I seem to have to add a lot more flour for the dough to clear the sides of the bowl.  I also sometimes have an issue with a rise that goes too fast (I think), where the upper 1/3 of the bread is way too risen, and the bottom 1/3 is relatively dense.  Even if that happens though, it is still a pretty good loaf of bread and by the time I go to bed (I usually bake in the evening) I wind up with one and a half loaves of bread instead of two.  Oh well.