Friday, November 21, 2014

cooking one thing or another and yay, the Friday selfie!


I woke up to rain this morning and Emma the cat was huddled against the back door waiting for someone to let her in. Fortunately it wasn't raining too hard and we have deep eaves around the house. It has stopped now but still overcast.


The molds are in the kiln, went in yesterday instead of Wednesday. Marc moved the other kiln over to the shop and by the time he figured out why it wasn't coming on, he decided to wait. As you can see, there are 5 molds in the kiln. The one in the middle is the peach mold. I finally took the bull by the horns and and selected some colors and filled it and, as so often happens, I changed my mind at the last minute about using a combination of transparent and opal glass and used only transparent. So, fingers crossed.

I know y'all are probably sick of hearing about all the pecans I am still picking up. Today I intended to take the bulk of them to the wholesaler and sell, but because of the rain the back of the truck has water in it and they are all contained in one form of paper or another. In the last picture there were 7 containers. I've added two more large brown paper grocery bags and another small box (I'll spare you a picture) and I still haven't managed to get all the ones off the ground because they keep falling! OK, I just did some rough calculations and I've determined I have at least 300 pounds of pecans sitting on the floor of my workroom right now.

I did finish filling the bee/flower mold today that I started late yesterday and I finally got the dressing in the oven for our Thanksgiving dinner which we are having tomorrow in Houston because the Girl and her family are going on vacation during Thanksgiving week. Marc cooked the turkey today and I made the cornbread yesterday and 


I was in there getting started but I relinquished the kitchen so Marc could quickly make the pie.

yes, that is a pecan pie and yes, I did shell those pecans




13 comments:

  1. a surprise to see pecan pie! ;)

    enjoy that thanksgiving dinner with family!!

    and we're expecting 90% chance of rain tomorrow here.

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  2. Pie looks yummy. My dad has pecan trees in his yard. His landlord has lots of acreage and leases the one acre lots to folks with trailers. I usually get mine there. Landlord sells them, but doesn't mind if the tenants pick up some for their personal use. Mama shells them and sends them to me all ready to use. Not this year, though. Everything is out of whack this year, though. Thanksgiving will be bittersweet.

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  3. Must be so nice to use some of those pecans for your T'giving dinner. I hope you enjoy!

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  4. I can taste that pie already. It looks so dang good!

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  5. Hard to pick the most boggling aspect--the sheer volume or the bending over.

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  6. Love pecan pie...you should post your recipe for it. I am hoping that cost of pecans will be lower this season based on your harvest!

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  7. Ooh my favorite pie!

    Those molds looks so pretty in the kiln - kind of like those pastel mints my mom always used to serve at baby showers :)

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  8. A way to a man's heart is a piece of pie, or through the 4th and 5th ribs. I think pecan may be my holiday feature this week.

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  9. That settles it - I'm making a pecan pie for Thursday. Marc's looks so good! We've done Thanksgiving dinner on different days in the past and it was always just as good and maybe more appreciated because everyone worked to make it happen.

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  10. How much do you get from the wholesaler for those pecans? I'm glad someone buys them and they don't go to waste.

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