Today, I baked 5 dozen cookies and an apple pie. First apple pie of my life! I used my Grandma Stuckey's recipe.
Before baking ....
And after...
Most of the cookies and the whole pie will be sold at the bake / yard sale my church is having tomorrow.
Usually, me baking = havoc wreaked on the kitchen.
There you have it. Havoc. Here's a close-up.
So much fun!
Earlier in the week, I had another kind of fun:
Though it was less fun when the Braves lost 3-12. But nonetheless, my companions Katie, Ingrid, Jamie and I kept things hopping with our operatic singing and discolike moves in the stands. It was Katie's birthday! She is in the foreground, below.
Oh,and I do believe I had promised you some more Ohio pics:
There was farming. I mostly observed.
There was a birthday dinner. Mmmmmmm. My mom's mashed potatoes with hamburger gravy. Plus homemade applesauce. Corn, frozen from last year's garden, and kohlrabi fresh from this year's.
Then there were the cakes. Can you read the message hidden in the candles?
It was good eats.
My great-nephew Aiden especially liked knawing on the kohlrabi.
Ah, evening drives along straight-as-a-ruler Ohio country roads!
I also enjoyed a great 24 hours in the fun city Columbus with my good friend Frank. We ate Turkish food, we ate Polish food, we ate Western European food, we ate the best ice cream in Columbus. (Their signature flavor "salty caramel" is to die for!) We bought used books. We chatted far into the night. Who could ask for anything more? Well, I guess you could ask for a picture, but I forgot to take one.
I do have a picture from the family get-together at the historic Wyse homestead: my dad with three of his siblings, on the farm where they grew up.
