This morning I did not set my alarm clock and it was fantastic. I
only slept in until 8:30AM but it is always nice not waking up to an
alarm. Once I was fully awake I went and grabbed my phone and got
back in bed. I had the urge for pancakes so I scrolled through my
phone until I found the picture of the recipe I took from the Betty
Crocker cookbook. It took me a little bit to talk myself into it but
I eventually got up and went to the kitchen.
I followed the recipe except for the addition of vanilla extract
because that is a thing I have seen in other recipes. It was
surprisingly easy to make the batter, though I wasn't really
expecting it to be too terribly hard. The recipe did say it was
supposed to make nine pancakes but I only got four. Guess I should
have been making much smaller pancakes. Regardless, it was a mostly
successful first attempt at pancakes from scratch. My only problem
came from a pan that was too hot. I got a tad confused with the knob
for the burner (thinking it was set up like the double burner which
uses half the knob for each burner, when it was a single burner using
the whole knob) so instead of medium high I was much closer to high.
That left some undercooked spots in a couple of the pancakes but
other than that they were very tasty. And for the rest of the day my
house smelled like pancakes. Still does. I'm okay with that.
After breakfast I eventually got ready, packed up, and headed to my
Mom's house to do a load of laundry. While that was going I looked
through the other three art books I checked out. I am impressed by
Renaissance art but it's not something I would hang on my wall.
There's a lot of creepy stuff, and clothes were obviously hard to
come by back then. I also read more of Sphere and watched
Star Trek: Voyager.
When I got home I spent the rest of my day, watching YouTube videos,
playing Farming Simulator 15, and finishing the second season
of The Librarians. In Farming Simulator 15 I sold all
my stockpiled canola and went on a spending spree. I bought a new
combine, a header, a tractor, a combination cultivator/sower, and the
topper and harvester for beets. The combine is great because the
internal storage is about twice as much and the header for it is
about twice as wide as my old combine and header. It harvests a
field so quickly. As does the combination cultivator/sower. It is
wider than my cultivator and sower and it does both jobs at the same
time. I also like the new tractor because it is more powerful and,
among other things, goes faster than six miles an hour when I'm
pulling my tipper up a slight incline.
The only thing I'm not a fan of is the beet harvesting. It is a huge
pain in the butt and it can't be hired out. The harvester has a
wonky connection which allows for tight turns but it is incredibly
hard to back up without jack-knifing it. Also, with the topper on
the front, it can't make tight turns. And the harvester has a very
small capacity. The beets are so densely planted that I can get
about two or three rows before I have to unload into the tipper.
This requires me to switch to my tractor with the tipper, unload, get
back into the tractor with the beet stuff, turn on the harvester,
switch to the topper, lower the topper, and turn the topper on. It
is a very convoluted, inefficient process that can't be hired out.
The most annoying part is really the turning radius, though. I can't
cleanly harvest the field and that's annoying.
For my audio journal tonight I played Crashlands again. Still
enjoying that game.
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