Fall in Texas

Fall is here... so is beautiful weather. No excuses for me not to ride bicycle with my daughter. She is growing so fast now. Her road bike is too small for her so she is enjoying the "project" bike we made last year.

My corner...

Time to clean this place... Although it is kind of clean as compared to "normal state". Left lower corner some of my unsorted retro micros (Tandy 102 Portable Computer, Tandy CoCo 3, Commodore 64C, Atari ST color monitor). On the shelf, some books on retro computers such as Atari ST Internals, unsorted 1/43 scale cars, IEEE Spectrum... Both my office laptop and home HP running Ubuntu Linux 8.04... and other "creative" mess I live in...

Citroen 2CV "Spachek" by Norev (scale 1/43)

Yet another Citroen 2CV in my collection ("Spachek" as we called it). This one also came from eBay directly from China without display case. The bottom says it is Norev model. Has a fairly nice level of details, especially the decals on the side. It has working shocks and the roof can be taken off.

Citroen GS by Altaya (scale 1/43)

Another "luxury" car that could be seen on the streets in former Yugoslavia in the days I was growing up. This model has those yellow headlights, which was typical for a French version (that is where Citroen is coming from). Yugoslavian version had "normal" white headlights. That is about only difference coming to my mind.

In Search for Perfect Bread (part 6)

It has been a while of me playing with the dough. Today we used the bread machine (trusty Breadman) to prepare the dough. We used "standard" simple recipe with just flour, warm water, yeast, and little bit of salt and sugar.

It takes less than an hour to get the Breadman done with the dough.

Then you take it out, punch down, and knead for about two minutes. We put some butter at the bottom of the pan and sprinkled some flour. Then we put the dough in the middle.

I like to poke the dough with a fork to let more air into it.

Let it rise again for about an hour. The volume should increase at least two times.

Preheat the oven to 380 Fahrenheit and then bake for about 45 minutes. We turned broiling (top heater at 550 F) at the end for like 1-2 minutes. Be careful with broiling as you can burn it.

Wet your fingers with water and carefully touch the top. Cover it with cloth and wait to cool off on a wire rack.

I am ready for test drive. Some smoked bacon, butter spread, and sliced onion. Yes, I know. Not healthy, but feels good.

Watburg 353 (scale 1/43)

Getting ready for Holloween

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