What Is a Person to Do —
— when the snow has already piled up eight inches and continues? Dennis decided to bake a cherry pie. Yesterday when we went to Bird Island to the sewing shop, we decided to have a cup of coffee before visiting the shop. The Athman’s Cafe has been on the corner of County Road 5 and State Highway 4 since I had been in high school in the 50s and 60s and most likely much earlier than that. I had a piece of coconut cream pie with my coffee. It was the best piece of pie I have had in many, many moons.
Of course, my ole cowboy knows no strangers, and he had to find out which of the gals in the kitchen was the pie maker. Actually, out came two gals, which we found out were both in their 80s. Dennis questioned them on pie making. It tickled me to see how thrilled these two gals were that someone was calling them out of the kitchen for a visit.
On our way home, we stopped for groceries and Dennis made sure I had a packet of Pillsbury Pie Crust on my list. When the first snow began to fall this morning, Dennis was in the kitchen bringing the refrigerated pie crust out of the refrigerator to get it at room temperature. As of late, Dennis has enjoyed being in the kitchen trying his hand at some recipes. I think it is great.
Lots of cinnamon and a bit of sugar makes this pie look as if it could have been a blue ribbon winner.
The snow has been piling up and the kitchen has had the aroma of a treat that will be ready to enjoy after supper. That cherry pie is not the only treat of the day. About four this afternoon our neighbor, Randy, backed into our driveway and took out two swaths of deep wet snow with his green line tractor and snowblower. He did say he would be back in the morning. We are so thankful for kindness. Dennis walked over a container of chocolate chip cookies to Randy and Jan that we had tackled earlier in the day. My mom, Lena, always said, “If the oven is going, make good use of the heat and do several things at one time.”
Dennis just remarked the wind was picking up. The city had the phone alert go out early this afternoon that there will be no snow removal until sometime tomorrow. Everyone will be having a quiet evening. My prayer is that all our family within the snow alert is and will be safe within their homes. No heroes are needed when the world just needs to honor the weather conditions.