MMMmm mmmm time for pie

Happy Pi day all you nerds and non-geeks alike :)

Don't have time to make a pie today (sad, I know).
Still...given my love of pie (and pi alike) I shall grin all day.
As should you.
And eat some pie.
I command you.
If you listen to nothing else I say all year hear this: go have a piece of pie.

Do the safety dance, HAH!

Ah yes. Work.

*sigh*

2 weeks off was heavenly.

At least I have some homemade pie to soothe me...mmm...pie...

Relaxation

The tree people came and trimmed all our dead branches and trees on friday...I had no idea how bad it was until they were all gone - now we have happy healthier trees and probably twice the light in our yard we used to. There were some dead branches taken down before they could fall down and now the yard looks rather spiffy. They had all the cool cherry pickertrucks and tools to do it right - and they took all the trimmed stuff away after. If only we didn't have to pay them...ah well. I love living in an older neighborhood with grand old trees...I want to keep the ones we have around as long as possible. It's actually gotten me excited about doing stuff to the outside of the house next year...it is time. We've only lived here 6 odd years...can't ignore the yard forever...
Saturday was relaxing...went for a long walk in the woods and watched the leaves fall and went home to make yummy food and read books and nap in the sunshine. Even watched a movie or two. A fitting day off after 2 weeks of insanity.
On sunday it was the Cancer Run . Again this year we had a team from work, but there were 18 of us this time. Some of the girls couldn't run so we all walked together...it was a really good time. Our team raised $4000 for cancer research- not too shabby. It poured rain the whole time, but it wasn't a cold day, so we all just got wet and had fun anyways.
On sunday after I warmed and dried up I made an experimental pie: Apple gjetost. It rocked.
Check out my food blog if you want to know more (I even remembered to take pictures this time...) I'm trying to put all my recipes in one place. (Cuz I'm a scientist and I feel the need to classify and organise...and I *do* make good food, if I may be so bold).
Hope you all had a good weekend. I did.
Now it's back to it...

I ated too much pie

Mmmm...2 1/2 pies down. Just a bit more left for devouring.
Thanks for coming over last night my pie eating friends. Others brought ice cream -let me say that anyone coming to my home bearing ice cream, well, please come again:) Sorry some of you had to miss out - I am sad at your pieless state. Grapecat - I'd send you a pie if I could figure out how...maybe dry ice and overnight international express? :) I remember you gave me a jar of peaches you'd canned yourself one summer...some of the best peaches I've ever had. Can you can a pie? Hmmm...

Yum. It turns out I love peach pie. I make a damn fine peach pie...and can eat a fair bit of it. I mean it's rude to watch people eat right? So when people come over all evening at random times I just couldn't be rude...so I just "had" to have many pieces of pie over the span of the evening.

Yum.

I've saved one to freeze to take up to the lake next weekend to share with my mom & dad and brother and his wife at the lake...and it might still be there by then!

OK. Seriously. Enough about pies.

dum de dum de dum...

tumbleweed rolls by

*checks watch*

So...erm...I'm off for lunch then. To eat...um...something.
Later.

Mmmm Mmmm time for pie

Well, last night I finally used up the entire flat of peaches we brought back from an orchard in BC when we were on holidays. They all went ripe at the same time, which was delicious, but believe me - a flat of peaches is a helluva lot of peaches.
So I made 4 peach pies last night from an old family recipe (from J's Aunt Lynn who cooks all things delicious)...even the crust was from scratch (please hold your applause). They've even got little latticy crusts on top and it was all I could do to stop from having a slice for breakfast this morning. I'm excited, as I've never acctually had peach pie before. I always resolved I'd wait till I had good fresh orchard peaches and make one some day, but till now I never got round to it.
And so, tonight is pie party night. We've called all our friends to let them know of our excess pie situation and hopefully they'll come over to our place tonight and have some pie...cuz god knows I can't eat them all by myself.
Although I'm willing to try...