T Stands for Tuesdays & Apple Pies

  Good morning everyone,
     It's T Time again this Tuesday. In this blogging event we join our hostess Bleubeard and Elizabeth for T. We share a drink related post with friends. You are most welcome to join in, just show a photo of your beverage. Link in my right hand column.

  I can't believe how really really fast that September is almost gone-where did the month go???  We finally got some cooler weather on Saturday-first day of Autumn. My area of the Ozarks missed all of the rain-not a drop-it stayed down south on the Missouri-Arkansas border. We can really use some more rain again here.

I have been picking enough fresh tomatoes still from my little veggie garden to enjoy in salads or sliced.

Happy Dancing-as I did finally get the hallway finished-ceilings and walls for the last two sections of the space. This was difficult to paint-the lighting was poor but I got er done. Next up is to really scrub the floors for tiling-hope we both can do this without help.

This paint dried to a very light grey-I really love it. I have paint left over too so perhaps I can use it a new home.

  We have a bit of a setback for selling our extra land. 
       Hubs met with MODT which is Missouri's transportation department, to obtain a permit and what we need to do to comply with adding a culvert and driveway off the highway to our property. Well the law has changed since we bought this property and can no longer do this. They have a minimum feet requirement to enter the highway (from new driveway) with no curves etc blocked visual-we missed it by around 50 feet. This really puts a damper on things for us.
   One solution is to get an easement from one neighbor's driveway over to ours-no answer yet on that. Or sell everything as one piece-which will be more difficult, and also the price of our land goes way down as well in a larger piece. So we are a bit waylaid at the moment.

  We are still going forward selling things online-downsizing now to hopefully get the most money for things. I just added 3 of my usa vintage jeans jackets on to my Ebay listings. (they no longer fit-sigh) I still have a very large box of vintage mini cookbooks, spirals, etc to go through and price-hope to work on that this week.

  I have also been typing up a huge project for Hubs business that he is hoping to sell-I finished that this morning (Monday) Yeah checking off things that need to be done.

   Yesterday I decided to make apple pies to celebrate Autumn.
I had enough apples to make two pies so I made one for Hubs and one for me gluten free. I added raisins to his and blueberries to mine. They both turned out yummy. I used the new leaf cutters for Hub's pie. I will also cut up in serving size pieces and freeze some of the pies for later.
  We enjoy pie for breakfast the most.

I finally found real lard at Wal Mart (big box store here in the usa) a few weeks ago.-what a difference that made in Hubs pie crust-just like my Grandma's and Mom's. 
   The lard in those plastic tubs is more chemicals than lard-this ingredient was only lard
   Of course it is about 3 times the price as the other but so worth it-and this was marked way down-it must not have been selling. I bought a couple for the upcoming year. I use the lard for pie crusts and the dough in tamales.

   For my beverage reference I had been drinking my herbal decaf beverage with cream while making the pies, and this morning I am drinking decaf green tea also in my favorite Yellowstone cup.

Speaking of Yellowstone I just learned of another Yellowstone National Park series by seasons on the BBC channel. 
    I caught the summer one a couple days ago-and the photography is just awesome-better than another series I had viewed, and I liked the commentator much better as well. 
   In my area they are running the different Yellowstone seasons again tonight. So if any of you get the BBC channel I highly recommend this if you love Yellowstone too. We have a recorder now with our satellite tv service-so I jumped on this to record. They seem to be showing this a few times now-so check it out if interested.

Happy T everyone!