Baking Bread

Sometimes I get a hair up my ass and decide to do things I might not normally do.  And, well, this weekend I thought I'd bake fresh bread and make a pumpkin pie.  Since we are living in Japan, I feel like I'm missing out on all the great things about fall.  I miss pumpkin patches, bails of hay, hay rides, flowering mums, fresh baked pies and so on.  So, I decided to bring a little bit of home, home.   Here is the result:

I will NEVER buy bread again!

I know, I'm the brown Betty Crocker, biatches!