Drop what ever you're doing it's strawberry picking time! Bring you mother, mother-in-law, kids, someone else's kids, call in sick, whatever you have to do to pick your own strawberries. You'll thank me later.

 The plants are covered in berries.

Beautiful big berries.

Every row, it's just impossible to know where to start.

I filled my pails without trying. This is the way strawberry picking was meant to be.

Look at this one! I think this is the most perfect berry ever!
     Most perfect,
     Hmm, does that mean it's perfecter?

Only one way to find out
Oh, you have to check because it would be so terrible if you picked a bunch of bad tasting berries.
But not to fear, this berry was outstanding!

Then this little guy waved to me! He reached his little mitten out from under a strawberry leaf and waved.
I waved my ghost white hand back at him.
No I didn't, I picked it and put it in the bucket.

These may never make it to Strawberry Magazine's 50 most beautiful Berries of the year but don't over look them the flavor in the twisted misshapen berries is often much better than the bigger berries.

I wore a red shirt just in case I accidentally got berry juice on myself, I don't know how that might happen but I wore it anyway.


And now, A very good problem what make with strawberries...

I’m trying out Windows live writer, somebody said it was waay better for blog posting. So I’m trying it. Anyone else have any opinion on WLW? What about pork and apple pie?
Yeah, ok, I’ll get back to the project in the kitchen

Chop the cabbage,

Celery and carrots 

and don’t spend too much time thinking about WindowsLiveWriter.

Cook pork until brown –10 minutes.

Remove and set aside.


Add onion, cabbage, carrots, celery, apple. toss to coat.

Pour in orange juice and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Return the pork and bacon to skillet and remove from heat.

Preheat oven to 350
Spoon mixture into pie shell.

Take extra pie dough and make your own leaves with the back of a butter knife.

for the top around the slashes you make for the steam to escape.


Insert something through a steam vent in the crust and pierce a piece of pork to see if it’s tender, longer, covering the crust with aluminum foil if it’s over browning.

Pork and apple pie
Ingredients

• 1 9” pie crust
• 3 slices of cooked bacon diced
• 12 oz. boneless pork shoulder, cut into 3/4” cubes
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 large onion chopped
• 1/4 cabbage chopped
• 2 carrots sliced
• 2 stalk of celery chopped
• 1 Gala apple peeled , cored, and cut into 1/2” cubes
• 1 tablespoon all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon each dried sage and rosemary crumbled
• 1 cup orange juice
• 1 teaspoon pepper

Cook pork until brown –10 minutes. Remove and set aside.
Add onion, cabbage, carrots, celery, apple. toss to coat. Stir in the flour, sage rosemary, pepper and salt. Pour in orange juice and bring to a boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Return the pork and bacon to skillet and remove from heat.
Preheat oven to 350
Spoon mixture into pie shell. Take extra pie dough and make your own leaves for the top around the slashes you make for the steam to escape.
Bake pie, uncovered, for 1 hour 20 minutes.  pierce a piece of pork to see if it’s tender, if not bake the pie longer.

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 Cherry pie.

  a can of lite cherry pie filling, yup, that's what I said. Judge away if you must. How 'bout we call it fast food?  now no one has to feel bad.

Pour cherry filling into unbaked pie shell

 Just like that.

 roll out pie dough for a top and slice into strips. It's only right to make a lattice top for a cherry pie.

 Start with the longest strips and weave them

 finish with the smaller pieces.

 Uh, how am I going to get it on top now?

 pick up the waxed paper and flip it over onto the pie and hope it lands centered.

Not too bad. Just tear that off and nobody will ever know.

 see, it looks fine.

 Bakeat 425 for 15 min and then turn down to 325 and bake 30 min more

Resist the urge to eat boiling hot pie.

 I think it's going to be just fine.

Oh yeah.


Cherry pie
ingredients

• 1 8" pie shell and dough for top.
• 1 20oz can Lite Cherry pie filling

Preheat oven to 425.  pour filling in. place lattice crust on top and crimp edges to seal. Bake for 15 minutes then reduce heat to 325 and bake for 30 minute more or until crust is golden brown.

Blogging by generator. yup, gotta do what ya gotta do right?
So here's how it happened. 
The sky got dark
Blasts of cold air and blasts of hot air blew by in contradicting directions.

Lightning flashed and for a second it was bright as day.

Then the wall of water came through at break neck speed.

 Thats when i ran back into the house. And then I realized I left the window wide open and we had a minor flood but aside from that everything's fine. Thanks for calling and checking though.

It was gone and the debris was all that was left.

 Bring your own chainsaw.

Dumber was out and looking concerned.

more trees in the road

No power means no TV no internet and more importantly no knowing who won the game 7s! I managed just like people did years ago. Got out the candles and had to wait til later to find out.

The next day the power still wasn't back on and the freezer and refrigerator... and my phone, every one's phones! Wait, my camera battery first!

Come to think of it a shower would be nice before the generator runs out of gas.

The Lily shrugged and said "It's a great day for hockey"


Thats all for now,
Thanks for reading,
PN