The Swish Brook

Keeping the family connected

Peter, Abbie and I along with whole bunch of other people that you may or may not know will be playing 8 concerts in June and July. The Windham Concert Band is a community band with a wide range of ages and ability levels that plays "traditional band music including marches, overtures, musical theater selections, and other standard repertoire." The concerts are all outdoors so be sure to bring a chair or blanket if you come.

Follow this link for a map to the concerts.

So as is customary this time of year all sorts of young critters are being born on farms far and near. Personally we have a single lamb on our farm that belongs to one of my mother's 4-Hers. She's a cute little black thing he named Isabelle, her mother's name is Nellie Belle, her mother's name is Nellie, I kinda like the progression that is occurring!

Pickup frisbee has started up again in Ellington on Mondays and Fridays 5:30 to darkish. For more information:
http://sports.groups.yahoo.com/group/ellingtonultimate/
located at:
http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&ie=UTF8&hl=en&m...

I have had this dough be tasty either on one quick rise or overnight in the fridge, but usually it gets started mid-morning for dinnertime pizza.

Into the mixer go:
About 1 Cup each of Semolina or Semolina/Durum blend, whole wheat flour and bread flour
About 2 tsp instant dry yeast
About 2 tbs olive oil
About 2 tbs orange juice
About 1.5 C chlorine free water at about room temperature
This I mix and let sit for 10 minutes or a couple hours, covered.
When ready to make it doughlike I add to the mixer:
2 Tbs salt (I use Kosher, don't know if it matters)

I don't know about the rest of you, but I am getting tired of winter. I hate to rush time because as I get older it goes fast enough so I won't say I want it to be spring sooner I'll just say I want some consistancy in the warm weather and sunshine.
Also, I am one of those old people who uses facebook so if anyone is interested............. Oddly enough my kids won't be my friends - " 'Cuz its just too weird, Mom!" Go figure, but truth be told I probably wouldn't have been my Mom's friend either.

For those of you who may not of heard, Terry and Kurt are now proud parents to Emily Nicole Christopher. She was born at 7:28 am this morning. Emily is 7 lbs, 15 oz and 21 inches in length. Congratulations Terry and Kurt!

Winter aconite soon to open and it certainly did in the very warm days to follow, but now has been snowed on again.

Karen and I sang in a quartet at the Ash Wednesday service at North United Methodist Church in Manchester and I put up a little clip of it on the church website. Listen at http://numc.axelhouse.com/music.html if you are interested.