Baking in Journal

Wow am I ever NOT a baker.
I’ve been using sourdough to make bread for over a year now. And it’s always.... Well. It’s bread but it’s also a door stop. Lol
I just recently started trying to make it better.
2 things were really tripping me up. 1, I use whole grain flour, and 2, it’s fresh ground. So the number of people who do that is so infitesimally small, which I didn’t know. And I didn’t know enough about baking to think it made any difference.
So after some research I finally discovered it matters what kind of flour I’m using. So I corrected. And then still after some flops, and more research discovered it matters if the flour is fresh ground. Anyway this was like 3 months ago. Starting to see the light and get some real results.
Oh plus my oven absolutely sucks. There’s no reason it should be 50 degrees off

This is my new doe. She’s a french Angora. Super cute, super well mannered, and I love her lol