Elk Meadow Lodge & RV Resort, Estes Park, Colorado
Though you grind a fool in a mortar, grinding him like grain with a pestle, you will not remove his folly from him. ~ Proverbs 27:22
As joyful as yesterday was, this morning began with tears of frustration. We woke up and I discovered that I was absolutely bone-weary. Not muscle sore. Not sleepy. Just to-the-bone weary. There was no way I was going on a hike this morning. Or doing much of anything else for that matter. Blaine was willing to just stay home with me because he mistakenly thought I’d feel worse if he left me home alone, but once I convinced him that I’d feel worse if he just sat around all day while I recovered, he left for a long, and difficult hike we’d planned on.
Me? I stayed home, talked to my Mom and worked on the blog. Slowly. Until I perked up around 10:30. Rest and Country music can help do that for me. 😊
And I made myself a personal pizza for lunch. Yum! I had some leftover sauce in the freezer, and found a recipe online for yeast-less crust (which turned out soft, but crispy), topped it with pepperoni, veggies, mozzarella and parmesan and voila! Excellent! I think Blaine took tuna with him. ☹
PIZZA CRUST
1 1/3 C. flour
1 t. baking powder
½ t. salt
½ C. milk (low fat or fat free)
2 T. olive oil
Mix flour, baking powder and salt together. Add milk and oil and mix until a soft dough forms. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead 10 times. Shape dough into a ball and cover with an inverted bowl.
Let sit for 10 minutes.
Roll out into a 12” circle.
Place on a baking sheet (on parchment or non-stick foil if desired) and bake JUST THE CRUST for 8 minutes at 400⁰.
Cover with your favorite toppings and bake until light golden brown – 15-20 minutes.
HINT: The crust swells some as it bakes, so if you want a thin crust, roll out thinner than you think you want.
He didn’t get back home until after 2:00pm and now has a bunch of editing to do. 😊
I’ll let him tell you about his hike if he wants. But I can at least tell you that he did the nine mile one way Fern/Odessa Lakes Trail (elevation 8,155’), and then added in the four mile Cub Lake Trail. And he also claims to have eaten lunch with a moose cow and her calf. 😊
UPS delivered right to their RV door!
After dinner, he talked me into a drive into downtown Estes Park, where we paraded around with hundreds of other people, all of us clad in masks, and walked into just about every store on the main drag. And bought nothing.
That was enough exercise for me today.