An interesting weekend...

Our church had it's annual fall festival this last weekend. It was a busy weekend. Jenny and I didn't help that much, but we each had a few things to do. I made 4 pies and Jenny made and decorated 4 cakes. One (cherry) of my pies stayed home, two (peach) were sold by the slice, with all proceeds going to our parish. The fourth was entered into the festival pie contest. Jenny's cakes were prizes for the cakewalk. Jenny's cakes were scratch-made, as were my pies. I also coordinated the Cub Scout Pack's participation in the Run/Walk. We directed traffic and participants at the various intersections. I also cooked for a little bit at a food stand. Jenny ran the cake walk for a time.

For me, the best part of the experience was the cooking aspects. I like to bake pies and I like to grill, so those were rewards in and of themselves.

To cap the weekend off, we won a festival raffle prize, and my pie won the pie contest and was auctioned for $35. Both of these were firsts for my family. I'm still jazzed about the pie. I hoped to win, but hadn't expected it, it was the first time I'd entered one of these contests. I knew the pie was good, it's older sibling was delicious. The cherries were amazingly flavorful, they came from a tree in my front yard.