I actually BOUGHT bread today

[NMDemDist2]

I have been making all our bread for months, but we're heading to Carlsbad to check out properties Friday and I just didn't want to make two loaves before we left

it was strange, wonder how it will taste.....

[OldLeftieLawyer]

1. I wonder

how it's going to muck up your innards. Watch out.

I lived on white bread for the past many weeks - lots of sandwiches and stuff - and it was just like ingesting paste. Ugh.

[NMDemDist2]

4. o joy

thanks a bunch :evilfrown:

the good news is it's only one loaf and we probably won't finish it between now and Friday

[politicat]

2. I know that feeling...

I occassionally buy a specialty bread at Costco - the demi-baguettes or croissants or something that I don't make.

When we rarely buy a pre-sliced loaf, I always get confused and go looking for the knife before I get out the bread, and usually our carb-addict of a cat will tear through the bag and eat half of the loaf. (Which is funny, because she's a tiny thing, and that much bread makes her look like a basketball on toothpicks. Stupid cat.)

Good luck on the trip - I hope you find the Perfect Property (any thoughts about putting a modular house on foundation/basement for it?)

Sandwiches and fruit and veggies are your friends. And dipey wipes.

[NMDemDist2]

3. this isn't the "buying" trip

this is the "scouting" trip

we are staying in Carlsbad but taking the back roads there thru all the little towns and have 4 towns to scout in the SE NM area

not sure where to post the pics of the trip

:sigh: the Lounge huh? :hide:

[wildeyed]

5. Post them here.

If you post them in the lounge, I will never see them. The lounge moves so dang fast.

[NMDemDist2]

6. maybe the DIY group

that may be a better fit :shrug:

[wildeyed]

7. Maybe.

You could post about all the great local food you had on the trip and post the pics in with that. :D Or do both groups. A lot of us spend time in both, but I think C&B is more active.

[babylonsister]

8. How about the travel group:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=368

Inquiring minds would love to know how the scouting trip works out for you!
Good luck!

[NMDemDist2]

9. great idea sis!

and I can just post a link here and in DIY

[Ecumenist]

10. Good Luck AZ

Sounds wonderful and lots of fun.

[NMDemDist2]

13. it will be nice to get out of the city for a few days

and it's my BIRTHDAY monday

:woohoo:

[Ecumenist]

14. Wow... Happy Early birthday...

I understand you're 18, (with a few years experience). Enjoy your trip and as a gift, I will get in touch with you after you come back. In hte meantime, I will cross everything I can safely cross that you're able to find that perfectly wonderful piece of paradise...:party:

[NMDemDist2]

15. not yet

we aren't manifesting THAT until July

:D

don't want our sellers to be quite ready to give us our house yet

first we need a buyer here and we're not quite ready for that yet either

all in good time eh?

[Ecumenist]

16. Okey-Dokey

You've got mail

[politicat]

11. I'd say it is a home improvement thing.

But that's me.

Hope you'll forgive me - I peeked at the MLS listings for Carlsbad. There's some neat property for not a lot of money in that area. If our lives didn't absolutely depend on high tech and the computer industry, I might be looking a little harder at that area.

Still, good luck. Scouting can be as hard as the buying.

[NMDemDist2]

12. i know! nice doublewides on a couple acres for a price I can pay

cash for and have $$$ left over to get a new biz started and remodel as needed :bounce:

[Warpy]

17. In store bakeries are the best bet

and a whole lot cheaper than that commercial stuff that was baked gawd knows how long ago and is dated to sit on the shelf for another two weeks.

In store bakeries use fewer preservatives, though, so be prepared for blueberries on it if you don't eat it quickly.

[politicat]

18. Baked stuff grows BLUEBERRIES??? WOW!!

O^O

:silly:

[Warpy]

19. Yeah, hairy ones, all over the loaf

Sorry, I just knew an old grocer in Boston who used to examine stuff as it passed the register to make sure it was up to his standard. He'd examine pita bread especially (most prone to early spoilage) and go "Aaah, you don't want this one, deah, it's got blueberries!"

I've always used that expression since and I mourn his passing, along with all the other old greengrocers who worked in dark stores and knew every inch of them as well as every bit of their stock, who cut their own meat and trimmed their own veggies.

My wisecrack is a tribute to him and keeps part of him alive.

[NMDemDist2]

20. cool

it's amazing how people touch folks lives in their everyday work and never even realize it

wonderful story and here's to all those wonderful grocers :toast: