25 November 2009 Photo: Be Thankful For Pies - OH and Cheesecake

I helped my sister make a whole bunch of pies today. I think the last count was 8 pies and a cheesecake. What are you thankful for?

27 June 2009 Photo: Like Pie And Chips For Free

Unlike the Geico gecko, our resident gecko never gives us pie OR chips for free. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmiK7cIx-pU

17 April 2009 Photo: Animal Vegetable or Mineral

This is obviously a plant, however when you suspend reality for a moment, and take away the color it could be a brain or a mountain range or use your imagination. It is, in fact, the rhubarb in our backyard. This is not something we planted but it was here when we bought the house, so I have learned to make strawberry rhubarb pie. We have a ton of it and it grows twice a summer from the same plants so if you want some, let me know!

21 January 2009 Photo: As American As Apple Pie

Ok so this picture is neither pie nor real apples but you get the gist. Today was my first day out on the road for work. As I was getting ready to leave my house at 6am to trek 5 hours in a car to have a meeting, I quickly took this picture just in case I didn't have time the rest of the day to get a "patriotic" picture. Who thought of this patriotic theme week anyway?

Anyway, I tried to convince my friends to pose for a patriotic photo but no luck so hence the apples in my kitchen. Here is some interesting wikipedia "facts".

Although apple pies have been eaten since long before the discovery of America, "as American as apple pie" is a common saying in the United States, meaning "typically American". The dish was also commemorated in the phrase "for Mom and apple pie" - supposedly the stock answer of American soldiers in WWII, whenever journalists asked why they were going to war.

Advertisers exploited the patriotic connection in the 1970s with the TV jingle "baseball, hot dogs, apple pie and Chevrolet". There are claims that the Apple Marketing Board of New York State used such slogans as "An apple a day keeps the doctor away" and "as American as apple pie!", and thus "was able to successfully 'rehabilitate' the apple as a popular comestible" in the early twentieth century when prohibition outlawed the production of cider.

Leave it to the ingenuity of those New Yorkers to find a way to keep making money even when they were not drunk on cider! And apparently our love for Chevy has stuck around according to this updated version of the commercial from the 70's but now tauts stolen bases, goat cheese pizza, bottled water along with the Chevrolet