Pie!!!

[NH Homesteader]

Oh I can just picture that little old lady! Too funny!

 

[Annabellam]

Give me pies any time! The photos are to die for. Should make some pies soon as well. Thanks

 

[chefsdreams]

i have also had a couple of bear encounters in my travels. on one hiking adventure in the mountains, we happily tripped around a bend in the trail, and sitting right in the middle of the trail, not 50 feet away was this beautiful black bear. "what's the protocol here?" i ask. to which my much wiser son replied: " very quietly and very slowly back up".
his mother didn't get that report, either...

 

[frustratedearthmother]

holy cow! I would have had a hard time backing up s.l.o.w.l.y!

 

[Britesea]

We were hiking in Yosemite once, when the bushes to the right of us rustled and out popped a bear, not 5 feet away! Luckily, he was was surprised as us, and skedaddled back the way he came.

 

[sumi]

Bears? Good heavens I will die, I will… @chefsdreams your protocol reminded me of something funny now. Years ago we went on school trips out into the "veld". My brother told me they were warned against snakes and the teacher was asked what to do if they come across one. He replied and told them to take a step either to the left, or the right, then a step or two backwards, before turning around and making a run for it. One of the kids asked why the step to the side first and he responded: "If you take a step back, you're going to step in your own crap!"

 

[lcertuche]

 

[chefsdreams]

@sumi Hah, Hah! too funny. . . because it's true. trust me
can i ask: 'where is the 'veld'?

 

[chefsdreams]

i seem to have drawn us way off topic here. could we please go back to talking about pies? preferably blackberry? and ice cream? preferably home made?

 

[sumi]

@sumi Hah, Hah! too funny. . . because it's true. trust me
can i ask: 'where is the 'veld'?

The "veld" is (this explains it better than I can)

1. open, uncultivated country or grassland in southern Africa. It is conventionally divided by altitude into highveld, middleveld, and lowveld.