Clearly this month has got the better of me. This is a busy time of year for grain crops
and the people who attempt to estimate them (including me). Add these:
- transport to and from marching
band camp,
- a church planning retreat,
- a major funeral and
- a shiva minyan gathering at our
house,
- driving lessons for Younger
Daughter,
- allergies waking me up every
night,
- getting YD ready for 11th
grade,
- getting ready to take one kid
back to college,
- figuring out how to help my
vision-impaired aunt get her car registered while I reside in a different
state from said aunt and car,
- going to a baseball game on my
birthday, for which we got to go onto the
field which was way exciting and fun,
and I’ve got myself in a state of befuddlement.
Note that the list above includes at least two reasons you
should pay close attention out on the roads.
We also have a major plumbing problem, so there are three
holes in our walls (1 – living room ceiling, 2 – our bedroom, 3 – our bathroom)
which are going to remain holes for a while.
This magnifies the sound of the plumbing being used. The most egregious leak has been fixed, but Mr
Plumber-man says that other pipes are about to burst. He suggested that we move the piano out of
the way of potential leaks. Ha. Like we could ever move that piano ourselves.
But any life that has a time-traveling pie in it is a good
life. Son and I made this blueberry pie way back
in June, but we put it in the freezer because Canada, birthdays, moving stuff, and beachvacation.
Timey-wimey pie. You can tell it's a time-traveller because it is wrapped in foil, just like a lot of characters in sci-fi shows. |
Son said that it was folly to make a pie and not be able to eat it. He vowed that he was
going to eat that pie before going back to college, which meant we had to get
started on it last night. Forced pie
eating is also not a terribly bad thing, although what with all those things on
that list above, any pretense of keeping to the Weight Watchers plan is completely
shot.
So life is good, if puzzling and sad sometimes. God created
pi, which allowed us to create pie, and that is very good.
Not the prettiest pie we've ever made, but oh, it tasted so good. And it is gone. |
7 comments:
Gracious. With a list like that, I'm thinking you need more of a bourbon-based dessert. Prayers and good vibrations coming your way from Iowa. Can you believe I've never had blueberry pie?
I think the pie looks beautiful and delicious. Sounds like life is really coming at you! Hang on and hold on tight!
Your list makes me anxious. I hope you're dealing with the multitude of things with more grace than I've managed over the last couple of days! I might just go with a bourbon-based dessert myself, although blueberry pie sounds heavenly.
I will take whatever bourbon-based dessert recipes anybody has to offer. The microwave just broke.
Time-traveling food sound so much more tempting than frozen food. We ate a lot of it last week, clearing out various bits and pieces in the freezer while we were son-less. (The one that lives here is back now, the other one is on the road to school.)
Oh, pie!
And dang, you've been up to your eyeballs in BUSY.
Thank goodness for pie.
I feel like I should mail you a pie!
I do have a good recipe for rum cake. Let me know if you want it. (It's too heavy to mail.)
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