First annual Spike memorial apple pie war

[bob perry]

Here's a vid of the armor in action.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fKVJW77 ... ijOqGyQkPw

Note that Spike didn't skimp on the back side of the armor.

[SloopJonB]

Lin:
I had no recipe.
I had a precious video of Spike demonstrating how to make an appl pie.
I'll find a way to share it soon.

My pie was Ok. My friends liked it and ate it. I ate it for breakfast.

Others:
My wife takes her bee keeping thing very seriously. Bee's are complicated little buggers.

Bob, I can't boil water but I know what goes into a good apple pie - my Dad was an agro scientist in the Okanagan (fruit research) and my wife is a fabulous cook.

Granny Smith apples, cinnamon and no added sugar. Really tart and crisp apples are the real key I think - they keep it from turning into sweet apple sauce.

Cheers to your wife for keeping bees - they are so crucially important and this die off situation is really scary. We have planted things they seem to like. Pink Wigelia is the best we've found - it gets absolutely alive with bees when it's in full bloom and it's very easy to maintain.

P.S. for really good pie crust, use the recipe on the Crisco can (really) and use vodka instead of vinegar.

[BeauV]

The Admiral just went out and filled a couple sections of our garden with stuff that bees like. This is a big deal as she doesn't like the little buzzing bastards around. But, the die off has her thinking - what if....

[SloopJonB]

"Larb"?
Ish, you are shitting me, right?

I know my butcher, Merle, well. I'll ask him for help.
Given where I live the people who work at the supermarket are my social circle. They treat me right.
Merle's working on getting me some veal kidneys.
I'll learn to do a crust and I'll do a steak and kidney pie.

This reminded me of an incident my wife had with our Vet. Our little Shar Pei was getting towards the end of his life and she was asking the Vet what she could do to prolong his life.

He said "Feed him kidney".

She said "I wouldn't know how to prepare it".

His eyes rolled so far back I'm sure he could see behind himself.

And yes, she IS blonde.

[JoeP]

Wr have Lavender in our garden and it attracts bees. I like to stop and watch them buzz around doing their business. They must help pollinate my apple tree. It's a cool tree, well, actually a branch. When my brother was in high school he was in to horticulture (still is). We had a tree in our yard my grandfather planted when he owned the house. My brother experimented with grafting and grafted a very small branch onto the root stock of another apple seedling. The tree grew and when my dad moved out of the house I got the tree. It grew with the branch sticking out almost perpendicular to the trunk but it produces apples every year. It's nice to have a bit of family history growing in your yard.

[SloopJonB]

Wr have Lavender in our garden and it attracts bees. I like to stop and watch them buzz around doing their business. They must help pollinate my apple tree. It's a cool tree, well, actually a branch. When my brother was in high school he was in to horticulture (still is). We had a tree in our yard my grandfather planted when he owned the house. My brother experimented with grafting and grafted a very small branch onto the root stock of another apple seedling. The tree grew and when my dad moved out of the house I got the tree. It grew with the branch sticking out almost perpendicular to the trunk but it produces apples every year. It's nice to have a bit of family history growing in your yard.

My Dad did that - we had an acre of those miserable Red Delicious apple trees and he grafted a branch of Golden Delicious onto one of them - made a strange looking tree in the fall with one branch of yellow apples on a tree of red apples.