Day—26
The pie turned out fine. I was actually surprised. I don't think I used the right kind of apples. I used red delicious and I am sure you are supposed to use granny's or some other tart apple. I also did not have white sugar, what the recipe called for and the only brown sugar I could get my hands on was rock hard and I spent 15 minutes, at least, breaking up the little brown sugar stones into a fine powder dust. It worked though the sugar turned syrupy. I also forgot the butter. But really the pie was like by all who partook of it. I amaze myself. I have to confess I did not make the crust—though I have in the past, I can make crusts. Dianne made the crust and rolled it out and all I had to do was put the crust over the pie group once I had the apples sliced mixed with the nutmeg, brown sugar and salt. The apples were probably more mushy then I would have liked but the pie tasted like apple pie and was a great chaser for the soup I had spent the rest of the day cooking.
The soup turned out OK I should have used more seasoning but the soupy was tasty enough for cold dark evenings. I made about three quarts. I bagged them and they are in the fridge for today and a couple other dinners this week, if Dianne does not eat them for lunch. Lunch is OK, that's why I make these weekend meals—easy food for the rest of the week. I wussed out on the bred though. I had made too much of a mess last night with the pie. I spent my creative energy this morning making breakfast and cleaning up from last night. However, I am going to make some cornbread to go with the soup this afternoon.
On Friday I lunched with by buddy Jerry. Jerry is my one real professional writer. I have written about him before use the “search this blog” engine on top of the page and nit should direct you the blog entry with Jerry's image. The inevitable question rose, “What are you writing?” I had to confess that the only thing I am writing right now is my blog. My daily 500 words is taking all my writing concentration. Still 500 words a day ALMOST every day is roughly 15000 words a month which almost more the 150,000 words a year!!! I may be getting close to novel writing endurance. Jerry writes a column for the paper and he indicated the type of writing I am doing is similar to what he does for his paper. He publishes a couple of times a week. In his other writing he is wring editorials—which again I think is very cool and he also writing the mandatory noel. Jerry has a couple of books out and keeps an apartment in the city for his writing all very cool too. So whe3n Jerry speaks I tend to listen he knows what he is doing in the word game.
I don't think Jerry has actually been to my blog... yet. But when we were talking about it I mentioned I had surprised my self in that I had a number of entries discussing if not jabbing the local transit authority. I mentioned I got a lot of my inspiration from my daily journeys on the train. Jerry suggested that I might explore the idea of writing a column on public transit. Since that is what I seem to enjoy writing about a lot. I doubt if I would actually do this with a real newspaper especially if money became involved. I am not even sure how one goes about this. But, the idea is interesting to the point of seriously consideration. Wow, what a thought a weekly column about riding the train as a middle aged crip. Now, that's something to ponder.
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