Bread Making Night

I am learning how to make wheat bread tonight.  I've made bread before in a bread maker but we are making REAL bread.  It has been quite the process complete with grinding our own wheat.  I didn't even know this was possible without a windmill.  Apparently you can buy (or borrow!) a wheat grinder.  The one we used was a small box and sounded like a vacuum cleaner on the verge of blowing up.  The only problem with making bread is that it takes an hour to rise, and then another ten minutes to rise again, and then has to raise again once in the pan.....so here it is over two hours later and we haven't even put it in the oven yet!  Not sure how practical it is for if you are hungry...but I'm hoping it tastes delicious!  But that's all for now.....just bread making, nothing interesting. :)