Pie and Ice Cream

To the most excellent and kind person that sent me the "pie" yesterday, many thanks.

One of the lasting sides from chemo, seems to be my loss of taste for -------- ice cream!  And as we all know "pie" without ice cream isn't worth a tinker's damn.

I have not by service or merit earned "pie" and do not deserve your kindness.  I must decline and will return your kind gift or pass it to another on this site.

Let me know.

May you find Peace in all things, stay strong.

What an awesome post to read. I am not the person who bestowed the pie. I do not have pie or I would have given you a second slice. You deserve the pie. I feel you should keep the pie. It is just my humble opinion, but the person who gave it to you obviously felt you deserved pie.
Enjoy the pie.
You are correct. Pie needs ice cream.

maybe i’m out of my mind, but i feel i could happily eat a frankly ridiculous amount of pie, even in the absence of ice cream.

enjoy your pie. that someone thought you should have it is reason enough.

Tamara,  If I don't receive a reply from my benefactor within three days ----- you have PIE!!

I am a believer and practitioner of the old ways.  There is a reason for all that we do and learn.

I know the name of the kind person.  (it was in the email I was sent, hahahahahahaha)

Peace

I love pie and ice cream.

I love pie!

I love ice cream.

Congratulations on a post worthy of PIE!

I am sorry to hear about the chemo though it sounds like you are handling it well.

Best wishes for the future!

Hi Deane,

I have no personal use for pie. I do buy it to support the site.   I figure the $18 to $36 I spend on pie each year is equal to a magazine subscription.  I certainly get at least that much use out of this site.  I then award pie when someone has made a post particularly useful to me or if I feel they could use a boost.

Deane,
I am at work, just opened my email, and read that I now have the gifted pie! The same pie of which you have just clearly proven that you deserve.
You are the absolute greatest. I wish you the best. I don't feel that I deserve the pie, however. I will regift the pie (once I have a quick chance to peek at the hidden pie forum and stuff), and this will hopefully be the gift pie that just keeps making everyone's day a little brighter.
For the record, my car broke this morning, and I had to limp it back home, and have my son drive me to work. It will probably be $1000 repair. So it was a perfect day to receive pie. Thank you, gifter of the pie. You have made my day. And thank you to the gifter of the gifter of the pie. You have also made my day.
Have a beautiful day!

This morning I assembled and baked Grandmother's Rhubarb Pies. Half the rhubarb was picked at a friend's house and she made the tea, but she doesn't like rhubarb. My chickens gave me an important ingredient.

Half of one of the pies is already gone, a mere 4 hours after coming out of the oven. No ice cream has been consumed. The people at my house are *very* capable of eating pie without ice cream.

There does seem to be something very special about pie, in all its glorious forms. Pie with gifted ingredients seems extra special, as does gifted PIE. I have gifted PIE and I have received PIE, and I hope to continue doing so for a long time.

Tamara, maybe someone will gift you the knowledge of how to repair your car yourself. Luckily I have a husband who is pretty good with car repairs. It has saved us plenty of money and stress over the years.

Tamara,  this PIE thingy started with a post I made in Community/Daily Gratitude/Personal Challenges  page four, near the bottom.

I can not accept anything for being a DRUNK.  OK the polite and correct wording "should" be, an alcoholic in recovery, but I've seldom been correct and not often polite.

During the past 46 years, I've regained some lost honor by working hard to help others.  But I still have some hard roads to travel to restore all my honor.

I hope you can understand that I simply could not accept the gift of PIE.  Use your PIE as you want.


I hope you find Peace in all things.

Deane Adams wrote:During the past 46 years, I've regained some lost honor by working hard to help others.  But I still have some hard roads to travel to restore all my honor.

I would say you've come to a good place to work on that! There are plenty of topics and threads here on permies looking for information and ideas. On permies, a great place to grow is by posting experiences that relate to a thread that show how you solved a problem or sometimes even better, ideas you tried that just did not work!

The neat thing about permaculture is that there are so many small steps one can take to make the planet a nicer place to live. Being kind to a neighbour, planting seeds on empty lots, starting a garden if you have land, researching ways to help your neighbourhood grow community spirit, etc, etc. The simple act of hanging laundry on a rack instead of using electricity to dry your clothes saves more power than the best light bulb humans have built (which if you read Paul's, Better World Book, is the simple incandescent!)

Good luck on the road you're travelling - may it take you through food forests, past hugel beds, into chinampas, and on to the future.