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Friday, February 17, 2023

Springtime blooms from the past

  

Not my photo, but isn't it grand?

I did so enjoy these abundant white blooms!




Yesterday was balmy, no doubt about it. But rain came in during the night. However, before the rain I had a craving. I don't often follow my cravings, for some are a bit extravagent and not available easily. But this one was to have a slice of apple pie a la mode. Not just vanilla ice cream, but butter pecan. And so I got my trusty sneakers on and went off to our local grocery, and was so delighted to find my favorite Dutch Apple Pie...with a crumb toping. It's a lot smaller than it used to be...which is how they managed to keep the same price. Anyway, it was the only one left. I knew a Ceasar salad was dinner, so a good desert was well deserved. 

However, cooking a frozen pie takes an hour and ten minutes, and then it needs to cool for 2 hours. I cut that finaly corner a bit short by 20 minutes, The ice cream had been waiting in the freezer, and I watched old NCIS Los Angeles shows.

Sorry, after taking the picture I was busy, so I forgot to add this till I was awake this morning. If you read the post earlier you missed this.

 

Today's quote:
A book, once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, -- both grammatically and actually, -- whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it. -James Branch Cabell, novelist, essayist, critic (14 Apr 1879-1958)

18 comments:

  1. ...the autumn clematis is beautiful, but a bit invasive.

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    1. I think this clematis must have been spring, because it bloomed before the roses.

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    1. As I sit inside most of today in the shelter from the rain.

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  3. The apple pie ala mode sounds yummy. The white blossoms are pretty. Beautiful photos. Take care, have a wonderful weekend.

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    1. Thanks, wish I could offer you a slice with a cuppa.

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  4. Cool for 2 hours? I ave never heard of such a thing unless you want to eat it cold. I don’t mind cold apple pie, but I wold certainly eat it hot.

    That is a very fine photo. It’s 17F here this morning and snowy and rainy (freezing) and sleety. You would love it. Not really. lol

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    1. Ha ha. Yes, hot apple pie is the whole idea, while the ice cream melts by the last bite.

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  5. Oh yum! And you might have a few more desserts in your future too, right? Love those photos, just beautiful

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  6. I love seeing those crepuscular rays over the mountains there. So beautiful. And that piece of pie and ice cream looks so yummy.

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    1. If the store had not had my favorite pie, and it's been out more than carried in the last year, I probably would have gone home with the ice cream, and cut up an apple and microwaved it into submission to be "a la mode."

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  7. I had apple pie yesterday. No ice cream though, although it was offered.

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    1. Oh isn't it great to eat! Even without ice cream. I had another piece slightly warmed up for breakfast...it's fruit and pastry, right? No ice cream.

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  8. The pie looks so delicious. You probably were just teasing us when you forgot to place the photo.:)

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    1. I think I was on a sugar high, or the doldrums that are supposed to happen after the high goes away. I'm fortunate to keep my blood sugar levels pretty even, and haven't had a severe plunge.

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  9. How nice to be able to indulge a craving so easily!

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    1. It was an excellent exercise...put on shoes instead of slippers, put on coat of some kind, grab purse and keys, run car down the 1/2 mile to Ingles and then get a bit of exercise pushing the cart around. Really, I must have burned 5 calories with all that effort. And then showing such patience, not being able to eat it until 3 hours had passed! Boy, talk about deferred gratification!

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