this is it so far..... it does have a solar light in it, just can't decide what else to do with it... suggestions anyone?

Hi Roselee, Yes I'm still here and N. Ca. is a perfect place to garden - all except for depending on water in our long dry summer months. Like many others in CA, I am changing my garden over to more native plants now, which is yet another gardening experience for me. (see MY Page). I'd be interested in hearing about your gardening in Texas -you can email me at fc4king@yahoo.com I found your beautiful photos because we have had some really hot days lately so I was inside, just rambling around new and old posts on Garden Web - I hope you will take more of them for us. fyi - there's a another wonderful 'bug person' I'm sure you will enjoy at http://bugyou.blogspot.com/ Min

Thanks for the tips! It did double in bulk during the first rise in the machine. It looked great, much better than it looked for the second rise. Then the machine "punched it down" and I took it out (I was using the whole wheat bread cycle). I did the "lift and fold" type kneading a couple of times with just a wee bit of flour and tried to pinch it, but it was definately slack. I put it in the casserole for the second rise--it kinda rose but not very much. I put a wet paper towel over it that kind of stuck to the sticky dough, and when I removed it, it sort of "degassed" the bread and it went "blat." I tried to get it to raise a little more for a while, but by pressing in on the dough I could tell it was starting to get "over proofed" even though it wasn't rising, so I finally just said what the heck and baked it. I may try it again adding the cereal at the beep time. I just couldn't figure it out, because it looked so wonderful during the first rise. I hardly did a thing to it for the second rise and it just pooped out! The bread wasn't streaked, it just looks that way due to my poor camera/lighting, etc. You know back in the day I learned to knead bread until it has the consistency of an earlobe. With these artisan breads it seems more like the consistency of paper mache!

I grew Heavenly Blue from seed last year and it didn't bloom until October I think. Will Flying Saucer take that long to bloom?