The thing about making bread
May. 25th, 2025 12:54![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertWhat in my opinion is a mediocre result is, to the recipient, a wonderful gift.
Twenty years ago when I started my business I did not have the vaguest idea of what I was doing or where it would lead. It was started out of boredom and to appease my wife who wanted to move back to Texas. I HATE loooking for work so I quickly gave up and decided to start my own business. Doing so lead a lot of places most of which were not anywhere I would normally go. I was as generous as I could be with other business people. Where one of the other business people who had a similar business in Houston dreamed of driving any competitors into the ground and leaving them, as he said, mumbling his name as they walked penniless down the street I was more of a rising tide floats all boats kind of person.
There were a couple of other people in the area that I helped out even though they were competitors. We had a non poaching arrangement and I enjoyed teaching and learning with them.
One of them is still in the business and I took he and his wife bread today. He's the one helping me build my chicken hotel. His wife is a lovely neo-natal nurse with whom I seem to have long talks whenever we meet. She is vegan and so gives eggs away. She's got 13 chickens and so has LOTS of eggs. Turns out she has onions and soon to have tomatoes.
I enjoy making bread and so took her a loaf of my easiest, a no knead bread, and picked up a dozen eggs and a couple of onions.
It was really nice to stop off and chat for a while. Mike was working on his garage with a friend replacing the panneling on the outside that was starting to rot away. They loved the bread so it was a good trade.
Twenty years ago when I started my business I did not have the vaguest idea of what I was doing or where it would lead. It was started out of boredom and to appease my wife who wanted to move back to Texas. I HATE loooking for work so I quickly gave up and decided to start my own business. Doing so lead a lot of places most of which were not anywhere I would normally go. I was as generous as I could be with other business people. Where one of the other business people who had a similar business in Houston dreamed of driving any competitors into the ground and leaving them, as he said, mumbling his name as they walked penniless down the street I was more of a rising tide floats all boats kind of person.
There were a couple of other people in the area that I helped out even though they were competitors. We had a non poaching arrangement and I enjoyed teaching and learning with them.
One of them is still in the business and I took he and his wife bread today. He's the one helping me build my chicken hotel. His wife is a lovely neo-natal nurse with whom I seem to have long talks whenever we meet. She is vegan and so gives eggs away. She's got 13 chickens and so has LOTS of eggs. Turns out she has onions and soon to have tomatoes.
I enjoy making bread and so took her a loaf of my easiest, a no knead bread, and picked up a dozen eggs and a couple of onions.
It was really nice to stop off and chat for a while. Mike was working on his garage with a friend replacing the panneling on the outside that was starting to rot away. They loved the bread so it was a good trade.