4th and Virginia: creative summit

Every year we have a gathering of friends at the farm for what we like to call the "Creative Summit". Each year the weekend is centered around mostly cooking, and we have a theme and then cook up a storm and have a great time. In past years we've made bratwurst and breakfast sausage and homemade mustards, one year we made Paella, one time we had an entire weekend around Cinco de Mayo, and this year.... wait for it.... the theme was BREAD. Friday night we started with homemade pizza dough and all the fixin's, Saturday we made various crusty breads and flatbread to go with our lamb dinner, and for Sunday we had smaller bread bowls to cook eggs in, and Oatmeal bread for sandwiches.

Loads of pics, lots of fun, and yes, here is a glimpse of my pre-chemo haircut. Last Tuesday I had my hair shaved off and my wig fit and cut to prepare for the inevitable hairloss of chemo. My hair lasted from Tuesday to Sunday, and then promptly fell out of my head on Monday morning before work. So, the pics shown are really just a short term do. I expect it to look like this again sometime in September. In the meantime - I am a mangy looking hyena under an awesome wig!

I'll let the pics do the talking. It was a great weekend.