Roger's View of the World, Love and Seafood Gumbo!
Seize the Day! Put no trust in the morrow! — Horace
The pie above is obviously not baked but will be frozen for the ‘event’. That’s something really nice about Apple Pies, they often taste much better cooked after they have been frozen.
This ones for you Kris! Here’s the recipe.
Dad
I was never a real fan of ‘apples’. Apples tasted liked sweet and slightly flavored styrofoam to me. As for apple pies, I found so many to be too much apple and not enough of everything else. Crunchy apple pies with poorly baked apples seemed to be the rule… they never seemed to be right …. until now!
Of course, starting off with the perfect apples is always a key… and not just any apples … but those especially good in baking! As I have discussed in my blog… we have this wonderful ‘See Canyon’ Apple tree that never fails to produce tons and tons of great apples for baking! I have pictured some of them above… the only thing I did to them is buff them up a bit on my cotton shirt…but they are as wondrous as they appear!
We do prepare our recipe very differently than what you are accustomed to reading… but then, that is why I now love apple pie!
Roger freberg
It’s hard to pick up today’s newspaper and not find some trouble spot and various trouble makers stirring things up around the world.
We hear problems are happening in some far off place Called Georgia and in Western China… and we wonder what is going on?
Of course, there are the typically disturbing news from the middle east and the saber rattling of Iran and Syria trying to shake the world with their sparks and magic.
But, I have to ask: what connects all of these folks together?
Russia just sent more troops into an area that has been ‘having problems with violence’ called North Ossetia (Georgia) and China has been dealing with basic assassinations in the Western provence with the Uighur … ah… these are areas with a high muslim population.
The strange thing is all the protests from the West… read on.
If you run along the CIA web sites that cover these areas you get a better picture. The so-called ‘break away province’ of Georgia that linked back with Russia is Christian… the other part of Georgia… is not… it is Islamic.
Oh yes, I am sure that there are some really good muslims in the world… but everywhere you look there seems to be issues involving people who just happen to be muslims. However, we are not supposed to speak of it…. especially, ‘he-who-shall-not-be-named.’
Now why is Cal Poly doing deals with Saudi Arabia?
Roger Freberg
I wondered aloud on my blog the other day as to whether or not Google was censoring my blog… and the blogs of my family? A little investigation seemed to confirm this concern. First, Laura’s blog hadn’t been visited by a Google spider since
early June… although the hits log remained heavy. Secondly, some of my favorite pictures from my blog including ‘Clown Poly’ allegedly of Cal Poly’s aging President Warren Baker mysteriously disappeared from Google’s search engine! Dastardly deeds were indubitably afoot!
So, I did a little political blog about Cal Poly’s latest fiasco and watched to see who picked it up. It’s little more than protesting the fact that Cal Poly is doing business with a country that discriminates against women… a ‘no brainer’, or should have been. Well… I am still waiting Google… but Yahoo has it up!
By the way, Google, whacking my daughter and wife’s sites was a little C.S…. wouldn’t you agree?
Here it is on the Yahoo Search engine!
viva Yahoo,
Roger Freberg
So my little personal protest… switching everything to Yahoo
I believe in the ‘perpetual learner.’ This is the concept that we are forever students… willingly taking in new ideas and experiences and hopefully understanding a bit more of our world. Yep. I learned a lot this weekend.
My mother aka Grandma Char had a fun family gathering this weekend and although I was told I wouldn’t have to cook… here I am running the BBQ! It was only afterwards that my nephew and his bud confesses to being BBQ masters! Hmmm… I was played. Laura and Karen brought Carrot Cake, Apple Pie and Ice Cream and my sister Jennifer donated all the meat and sausage It was wonderful!
One small problem… Laura was kind enough to run home and grab some of my cutting tools… in particular a Cutco brand knife of which I am becoming very fond.
Karen and I posted all of the pictures on Facebook… they’re public.
Roger Freberg