Go Vote!

My mind is racing about all of the things I want to write about today. But the number one thing I want to shout from the rooftops is to GO VOTE! I did my early voting and had to wrangle with nine ballot questions. The House and Senate races get all the news coverage, but you have to educate yourself about all of the races on your ballot because it's the local ones that impact you the most.

To help with the stress of the day, I'm doing a day of stretch and folds for my sourdough loaf. I'm honestly so proud of myself for building my starter from scratch and managing to get a decent loaf finally! It took more than two months to establish my starter, and then I was met with three failed loafs. Now, they tasted good, but boy were they under fermented, gummy, and flat. My last loaf had a beautiful ear and a pretty good oven spring. There is just something so, so satisfying about eating a delicious, fresh-baked loaf that only has three ingredients: water, salt, and flour. It's amazing the complexity of flavor you can get from the strange alchemy of those simple ingredients plus time and temperature.

Finally, I started watching the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre. It's a lot less gory than I was expecting. But with the gritty realism of the cinematography and the utter dirtiness of the characters, ugh, there is just something grimy and scary about the movie. Much scarier than buckets of fake blood.