National Pie Day

Today is National Pie Day- well who'd a thought there is such a thing. www.piecouncil.org

If you visit that site there's all sorts of info. I'm not much of a baker and pies are certainly part of our American heritage. Lurking around the net for pie images, for some reason, several say: Enter your phone number to see recipes. What's up with that? FORGET IT!

But on one site called Nibbledish I found this listed under pies-it's my kind of pie- really easy.

Today I started working on my Winter Blues theme and I made some blue cheese ice cream ( my husband didn't remember me making it before) he sampled and 'Hey Mikey, he likes it!!" I also made some really decadent blueberry ice cream- it's just delicious. My theme this year has a slightly different twist- it's called Winter Blues Blown Away. And now, I'm turning my mind over with the Bluebird of Happiness.....

When I was little, my Dad had a birthday party for my Mom. And her best friend gave he the funniest birthday card I had ever seen: it was a 4x6 white plastic case and on the front of it said: 'May be bluebird of Happiness....' and you open it up and inside it's a mess of cake crumbs and blue stuff and white slime and it said: 'Crap all over your Birthday cake'. I thought that was hilarious and I laughed so hard, I had tears and couldn't stop laughing. That went on for at least a month. Remember that kind of laugh? It rarely happens anymore. I guess that's what getting older does. I do remember my last laugh like that- a girlfriend and I took our sons to Italy for a graduation trip. We were having dinner in an outdoor restaurant ( that seems silly: in a restaurant, but we were outdoors). Our boys were really hungry and the table next to us was ready for the next diners to come. Well, the boys took some of the bread out of that table's bread basket, ate several bites and put the rolls back into the basket! THEN a man and woman came to sit down, they ordered their wine and proceeded to eat the rolls that had been eaten into!!!! I couldn't talk, I had tears- I couldn't breathe! Don't think I'd let my children get away with such behavior but it happened so quickly amidst our protests to do something with that basket before the waiter came back. It all happened so fast. When I finally got my breath, I had to take pictures of the diners who were eating their rolls, with attitude. That was the best part!

I'd post them but it actually was film footage and it's on a VHS.