The Annual Harvest Fest was last weekend. We have always made a lot of pies for this event, honestly, this is where my daughters learn to make pies. So we started peeling apples bright and early. We have been looking forward to the apple season.
These girls were working on lemon meringue pie. This was a stretch but a good experience to learn to read a recipe, measure ingredients and make something you're not quite sure of.
Millie made cupcakes for the cake walk.
Lia helped me with pie crust. She was pretty good at rolling out and mixing. She loves to play with playdough perhaps that is transferring. I did the final rolling and placing in the pie plates but she helped me pat the crust in.
Ready to fill the oven.
I got burned with hot berry filling it bubbled up as I was removing it from the heat to pour into shells. That stung for a while.
We were done by 1 o'clock 14 pies ready to share. A neighbor brought cookies and returned an empty vase I gave her a pie. I gave another pie to the head ladies who managed the entire dinner production. And we enjoyed one at home. I do love homemade pie. I was asked to make the cream pies at the preparation day. The ladies asked if the pies looked good I said no they look disgusting but I am a pie snob and only like pie that starts with whole fresh ingredients not powder whipped into life. I ended up helping whip and whip powder to make all those pies. I really enjoyed working with Afton, Millie, and a friend named Mason. We wrapped all the potatoes and then whipped up the powder pies. They were fast and attentive kids. Millie has a lot of cooking experience and would have managed on her own. They asked parents to manage. I went between doing dishes and watching the mixers.
Another highlight of the evening was the final bingo games! The crowd loves these. I can't quite explain the palpable competition in the room. But these are serious participants. Some even had the special bingo dot pen to mark the squares.
The best part is what you won't know but each family group gathered together to playing a game of chance enjoying time together with no internet, no screens, no outside stuff just play. This is a lost action these days. It was interesting the dinner started quiet and slow but around 6 the crowd got louder and more loquacious. I was in the kitchen washing dishes all evening so I only heard the changes but it made me happy. People were content with the good food, they were enjoying seeing friends and neighbors that maybe hadn't been seen for a while due to the long hours required during harvest and fall. It struck me that this dinner is so much more than just food and fundraising, but also reconnecting the community at large for a few hours each year. I have really enjoyed getting to know parents as we work together, it's good to put adult faces and personalities with kids I hear about in passing through the years.
The kids had a good time some won great prizes some of us just never had our numbers called. It was great to be with my kids, to be with our friends, to be totally sugared and full of contentment. We are blessed to have access to this community. Life is good.
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