Any Home Bakers Here?

[pennyJo1960]

Afternoon Home Bakers Jared great landing a job you will like.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

My kingdom for a grassy lawn!! <sigh>

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I live on dark red clay and have a lawn like yours.

 

[Blooie]

I live on dark red clay and have a lawn like yours.

It’s awful, isn’t it? Ours is more Bentonite than anything else….it’s like gumbo when it’s wet - gray and super sticky, yet full of grit that scratches everything it rubs against. When it’s dry it’s powdery and blows around everywhere. It’s all volcanic, left behind from the Yellowstone eruption a few hundred thousand years ago.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

It’s awful, isn’t it? Ours is more Bentonite than anything else….it’s like gumbo when it’s wet - gray and super sticky, yet full of grit that scratches everything it rubs against. When it’s dry it’s powdery and blows around everywhere. It’s all volcanic, left behind from the Yellowstone eruption a few hundred thousand years ago.

Yep. Gumbo and setting cement mixed together. Slippery as snot, stains everything and like yours very gritty and scratches things. How it can be gritty and slippery at the same time is beyond me. There is always a red haze/dust on things, but when it does dry up (rarely) it's hard as cement.
Redish based floors help a little. A little...

The darkness runs in veins around here and different areas of the farm are darker than others. Thankfully I had learned on my last place how to make semi raised beds.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

All town shoes come off at the front door and all garden shoes and barn boots stay outside. Not fun putting on ice cold boots in winter, but it beats scrubbing floors.
All my door mats are stained red!

 

[jnicholes]

Good morning everyone!

 

[Aria]

Good Morning Jared. The SUN is SHINING Brightly here. It is 43 degrees and forecast is for 72. It may be a Spring Day. ENJOY.

 

[SnapdragonQ]

Also bright and sunny here. 86 yesterday and probably a repeat today, then back to more normal 60s temps.

Sourdough sandwich bread planned for today.

 

[Aria]

I have Artisan No Knead loaf in oven baking. Mixed last night with Spelt Flour and a bunch of seeds and a multigrain mix I make. My daughter is coming to visit. Slice and pack for her freezer.

 

[Aria]

It is a long shaped loaf. Like this one.