These are days in between for me as I wait for the day of my coming surgery on my knee. There have been days when I waver as to whether I should still do it, but those are only days when my knee feels better then the day comes when pain returns and I know I must. I had never heard of a torn meniscus but now I know it is quite common and some of my friends tell me they have had the surgery. They all say to go have the surgery because more then likely my knee will get worse and I will wish I had it over with. People have been so good to me through all this, cards and visits from the church and friends, I won't forget their thoughtfulness.
I have had something to get my mind off my knee, it is something we bought...a bread machine! I have never had one before and it has been fun trying the different recipes and peeking in the glass lid to see the bread mix, knead and bake. I may need to buy shares in a dairy where I can get all the butter I want because home made bread takes more butter. I got a recipe off the Internet for whole wheat bread and oh it turned out so good. My system does not like white bread but whole wheat bread is fine so it is important to me to get a good bread and if you have priced the better whole wheat bread you know it is expensive, I figure I save $1.50 a loaf. It takes me no time at all to put the ingredients into the machine and then I merrily go on my way while it goes about the task of filling the house with the wonderful scent of baked bread.
Now I think of myself as old fashioned but really am I? Let me think... I have two dustbusters because I hate crumbs or lint on the floors and I have my wonderful electric Eureka Quick Up vac which weighs next to nothing and has a very long cord and does such a great job I don't have to drag out my heavy vacuum. Oh yes there are the two computers I spend more time on then I like to admit. Perhaps I think I am old fashioned because I like to cook from scratch so we don't eat all the wrong fats and fill up on chemicals with names I can't pronounce. Have you notice there are no such labels of contents on fresh vegetables. I read the label on a bread wrapper and it listed 30 things that went into that bread and one of them was the dreaded corn syrup, and I know it only takes 5 to make bread. Hmmmm. Well it's time to stop here and go take my bread out of the machine, OH BOY
We bought a bread machine from the thrift store. But we were one of the unlucky ones. The piece that kneads it broke. But i did know a weight gain from trying so many tasty breads.
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