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Other Hobbies?
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Wow, quite a group of diverse interests. Made me realize that I am kind of obsessive about hobbies. Never more than one or two most of my life. As a kid and young adult it was skiing. Summer was only for working to buy new gear in the fall. Early in my working career I did play some softball and volleyball but my fly fishing addiction was kicking in. Sometimes I wonder why my wife didn't kick me to the curb I spent so much time fishing, tying, and taking fishing trips. In my 50s I got a wild hair and spent that decade fronting blues and rock bands in Rochester, NY and Orlando, FL. Gigging every weekend 10-2 doesn't allow energy for doing much of anything else. Since moving to the Tri-Cities, WA I seem to have gotten over my obsessiveness. Bought a boat and spend a lot of time on the big rivers fishing and running my grandson around. Back into fly fishing, but no exclusively, and fly tying. I think my favorite current hobby is enjoying good WA red wines on the patio and watching the world go by.
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My other favorite hobbies: (they are not really hobbies, they are just things i like that i do often.
1. Straightening things.
2. Finding new music on Spotify (like Jon Batiste, Black Pumas, Michael Kiwanuka, Billie Eilish. And old stuff I used to own on vinyl: (Jackson Browne, Grand Funk Railroad, Traveling Wilburys, John Hiatt).
3. Walking often, walking long, for my new exercise.
4. Growing my hair.
5. Fretting about getting older and planning my new bohemian style cause i am not going to be a blue hair bubble headed older lady who wears elastic waist pants (hence #4 and #8).
6. Finding a new wine I’ve never had before.
7. Minimizing
8. Embroidery and quilting.
9. Book Club. I have to be honest. It’s mostly about the wine. However we are meeting next week at my place on the The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles and i am making the pasta Mi Amore dish (with some additions) that the character Duchess made. There are only four of us, including me, in the book club.
10. But my favorite hobby is making lists! (I used to write a blog back in the day when it was a thing - before Facebook was invented - and i always wrote out lists of random thoughts and had people come and write their own.
11. One more. Not closing my parentheses, though that is more a signature. I find that i do it often and I’m just going to quit editing them now.
I started this lap quilt during the pandemic. I may never get around to the topstitching though because i like how it looks folded and I’m afraid of messing it up .
Bob Seger quote. I write on the fabric in pen and embroider over it. It goes along with my Vote jean jacket I embroidered over a year ago. It can be my new bohemian Canadian tuxedo fashion.
1. Straightening things.
2. Finding new music on Spotify (like Jon Batiste, Black Pumas, Michael Kiwanuka, Billie Eilish. And old stuff I used to own on vinyl: (Jackson Browne, Grand Funk Railroad, Traveling Wilburys, John Hiatt).
3. Walking often, walking long, for my new exercise.
4. Growing my hair.
5. Fretting about getting older and planning my new bohemian style cause i am not going to be a blue hair bubble headed older lady who wears elastic waist pants (hence #4 and #8).
6. Finding a new wine I’ve never had before.
7. Minimizing
8. Embroidery and quilting.
9. Book Club. I have to be honest. It’s mostly about the wine. However we are meeting next week at my place on the The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles and i am making the pasta Mi Amore dish (with some additions) that the character Duchess made. There are only four of us, including me, in the book club.
10. But my favorite hobby is making lists! (I used to write a blog back in the day when it was a thing - before Facebook was invented - and i always wrote out lists of random thoughts and had people come and write their own.
11. One more. Not closing my parentheses, though that is more a signature. I find that i do it often and I’m just going to quit editing them now.
I started this lap quilt during the pandemic. I may never get around to the topstitching though because i like how it looks folded and I’m afraid of messing it up .
Bob Seger quote. I write on the fabric in pen and embroider over it. It goes along with my Vote jean jacket I embroidered over a year ago. It can be my new bohemian Canadian tuxedo fashion.
Xoxo
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I once told my husband (who is a drummer) that I’m grateful i have no musical talent. I don’t need that insecurity and I’m too lazy to practice to get better and better. You can never be good enough!
My favorite original entries here are haha… folding fitted sheets, storm chasing, knitting, beer judging, rock tumbling, and yo-yo ing!
My favorite original entries here are haha… folding fitted sheets, storm chasing, knitting, beer judging, rock tumbling, and yo-yo ing!
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I've not used bread pans. The recipes that I've been making are Italian white breads (Puliese and Cassaricio). Both of these use a biga, made the day before. The dough tends to be somewhat soft so I get flattish loaves. I have used bannetons for the final proofing but the dough still sags before oven spring takes over. I've been using a 50-50 mix of bread flour and semolina flour.
I've bought bread flour right at Bob's Red Mill outside of PDX, but I have no idea how fresh it was. (I've heard that this is the secret to getting really flavorful bread, and since mine isn't I'm starting to wonder.)
I did buy myself a stand mixer, which helps the initial mix, but the Puliese doesn't require kneading so much as a series of stretch and folds.
I want to try your recipe and have a few Qs.
- SAF dry yeast... is that a brand or a type? I buy bulk active (not instant) but it's simple to convert between the two.
- Dry ounces or liquid ounces on the flour and water?
- I'd guess: mix the dough, let it rest for a short while, then either knead or do 3 stretch and folds at 30 minute intervals. Proof for about 2 hours;. Place in bread pans without de-gassing (how do you prevent sticking?) allow to rise again for about 90 minutes, then bake. (Steam initially but not thereafter.)
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SAF is a brand of yeast that is very highly regarded. It is a product of Mexico. I buy it in 1# packs, put a little in a sealed bottle in the fridge and freeze the rest. It is called SAF INSTANT.
All weight measurements are made on a digital scale, the only way you can get accurate flour measurements it seems due to the moisture content of the flour and how the flour is scooped out of the bin.
Bread doesn't stick to Norpro pans. I don't grease them, instead spray a tiny bit of oil on a paper towel and rub the entire interior of the pan leaving no visible trace of the oil. Bread falls right out every time.
I use loaf pans because the shape of the loaf is better for toast, sandwiches, it fits the toaster better and in general is a more useful shape than the flat oval loaves.
I have used a poolish and biga on many occasions but years of experience has taught me that my standard recipe is just about as good with a lot less effort. To enhance flavor you can ferment the dough more slowly by placing it in the refrigerator overnight and baking the next day after it comes to room temperature.
This late in life I have done all of the trick baking and artsy-fartsy experiments that I want to and pretty much have bread baking on cruise control. What is difficult is making a loaf that is just a little better than average. Taking bread to my granddaughter and her family pulls out my best efforts and extra care.
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Yep Seger is on the right side. Beatles on the left. I had to edit the Beatles lyric to make it fit. But it’s the Seger quote i like really. I just stitched the other one other for balance.
I actually have just gotten into listening to a bit more Jon Batiste (partially because I saw him a bit on the Tonight Show...), but damn, I really like his style, I like his music, I like his message. This is also coming from someone with more of a metalhead mentality...
Bob Carroll
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This thread is awesome! It has more twists and turns than Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride!
Started on skis at a young age and picked up snowboarding prior to the lift serviced days, hiking in sorels with a Burton Elite in hand poaching the resort terrain. Lots of surf talk in this thread. Former Surfline addict. Resided for a time in the pier bowl in San Clemente. The DMJs were an oasis and Church felt like home. Lived briefly in the north which put OB, Pacifica, Steamers down to HMB in the rotation. The view sitting on your board looking back to shore at OB with the fog burning off and the sun poking out is seared in to my memory. Paddling out past the break the first time is a whole different memory. Chased wind and waves with kites and boards from Baja up to the Gorge and on out to the OBX. Snow kiting on Midwest reservoirs in the winter helped make up for the lack of vert. Other hobbies have included motocross, hockey, golf and cycling. Dabbled in team sports. For the competitive exercisers in the group, I opened my first CrossFit affiliate in 09 and started a second in ‘14. Have since sold both. Angling is my new hobby.
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We all need more Jon Batiste in our lives right now!
Coach Potter
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I started my coaching career as a hoops coach too! I played in HS and had a short lived college career. It doesn't really make a ton of sense that I'm coaching football as I only played a couple of years and I also coach a position (Offensive Line) that I would have never been capable of playingI used to coach AAU and feeder team hoops. Lots of 5th-8th graders, freshmen school team a few times. Hoops was 3 seasons of the year. You know how that goes.
Also coached a few years of Jr football.
I miss it a lot! I don't miss the parents, but I do miss the boys and the sport. I'm a hoops geek when it comes to the Xs & Os. I played HS ball. I also married a football coach's daughter (her brother played college football), both my boys played football & basketball (rugby & track too) and most of my buddies coached jr football. So I guess it was hard to avoid coaching something.
I may get back into it someday, but I will say... I definitely have more time to fish now that I'm not coaching.
For now, I fish, tie about 1/2 the flies I fish with and trying to learn the guitar. I also used to dirt bike quite a bit. Trail/enduro type stuff. Had a KTM 300 that was LOTS of fun. Blasting up hill on that thing was like that initial run of a steelhead. Good adrenalin tester.When the boys went to college we sold their bikes and then I just wasn't riding enough so sold the KTM and bought a raft. It's been a good trade, but I do miss riding. Increased my fishing time though!
I still ride MTB bike. We have trails right behind our neighborhood so I don't even have to truck it to a crowded parking lot.
Thanks for coaching kids! I know you don't do it for the $$. Believe me...I know.
. Seeing those dudes is the best part of everyday. I also help run our Strength and conditioning program so I get to see most of our guys 11 months out of the year.
Dr. Magill
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Where the games are won or lost.
What offense do you guys run?
Where the games are won or lost.
What offense do you guys run?
Snowboard my second love since the 80's...Tahoe Basin the main playground,..snowboarding with the kids so much fun...wife and I quit our management jobs at 50 and took a year off, surf trips to the tropics, flyfished throughout the NW, spent the winter chasing pow wherever it landed...Whitewater and Red Mountain were hella fun that year. Had to walk away from it after hip replacement that included the cautionary to 'keep it mellow'...as if
My oldest played O & D line. Love those guys. Not sure anyone works harder! I'm a hoops guy, but I absolutely love the big team aspect of football. Obviously not for everyone and some real risk involved, but THE best team sport there is. All 11 have to work or things go wrong.I started my coaching career as a hoops coach too! I played in HS and had a short lived college career. It doesn't really make a ton of sense that I'm coaching football as I only played a couple of years and I also coach a position (Offensive Line) that I would have never been capable of playing
And I loved coaching hoopers that were also football players. They were tough and I knew they would always pull their weight. Different than most other multi-sport athletes.
Lots of hoopers could learn a thing or 2 from playing even 1 season of football.
I will say though, one of the toughest kids I ever coached in hoops was a short, soccer 1st, hoops 2nd type of kid that actually ended up kicking for the HS football team. He had a tackle of a D2/lower D1 type running back on a kickoff his senior year that was just....WOW! We still talk about it today. He's now a successful D3 soccer player. Great kid & smart too.
Pink Nighty
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I played OL until I decided I wanted to walk when I was older. Coaching is something i hope to get in to when life is a little less chaotic ( 1 and 5 year old daughters.) A former teammate is head coach at a local hs and I watch film and such with him, and up until a few years ago I helped with some skills camps.I started my coaching career as a hoops coach too! I played in HS and had a short lived college career. It doesn't really make a ton of sense that I'm coaching football as I only played a couple of years and I also coach a position (Offensive Line) that I would have never been capable of playing
I also have a niece (badass who will absolutley wreck you) and two burly cousins who are playing high school ball. Whenever we get together we head out back to drill. It's fun and super rewarding. Except for the realization that those 16 year old boys could whip my ass if we really went toe to toe. I'd win a few with age and cunning but ultimately no chance.
Dr. Magill
Life of the Party
Your niece plays high school football? Man I have never seen that. Freshman ball maybe but not varsity. She must be something else.
Mrs Brian enjoys "nesting"
Pink Nighty
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Shes finishing her freshman year at Kennewick high, shes been playing every year since like 5th grade and has the goods to hang on varsity no question.
She is definitely something else.