Nature is trying to kill us

[danceswithwords]

It smells like a campfire everywhere I go. This is going to be a very, very bad fire year, and there's not much anybody can do about it, at least in the short term. I wanted to go running last night, but according to the local news, I might as well smoke fifty packs of cigarettes and save myself the wear on my running shoes. Maybe by this

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[thassalia]

TINY PIES IN JARS!!

[danceswithwords]

I KNOW! Doesn't that seem like just the thing to have in your freezer at all times? Brilliant!

[thassalia]

I don't even bake and I desperately want to try these! (My weakness is cherry pie filling. If I had an ounce less pride, I'd just eat it out of a can! Made into tiny jar pies, though? No excuses necessary!)

[danceswithwords]

I totally used to eat cherry pie filling out of the can when I was a kid. Is there some kind of age limit to that? There shouldn't be.

On the other hand, a freezer full of tiny pies is a pretty awesome thing.

You could always do both.

[laurashapiro]

It strikes me that we are seeing, one by one, government by government, the tipping over of all of the major participants in the Babylon 5 Council toward militarism.

U R SMRT.

It's crazy how I can never comment on your B5 posts without spoiling you. So much to say! But I must not!

I never bake, so this isn't fair, but

[laurashapiro]

I would totally eat jar-pies if you wanted to make some. La la la...

Re: I never bake, so this isn't fair, but

[danceswithwords]

If you are volunteering to be a guinea pig, I might take you up on that at some point. I just remembered that I have a dozen Ball wide-mouth pint jars in my closet from some previous unsuccessful flirtations with canning.

Re: I never bake, so this isn't fair, but

[laurashapiro]

I will guinea pig for you any ol' time. You've never done me wrong yet.

[katie_m]

I can't see the tiny pies in jars! SNIFF.

RE the audiobooks, I think there have been some reviews on the newsletter... yeah, there's one here.

[danceswithwords]

The site does seem to be loading wonkily. Boo. I did get it to come up though.

And ooh, thanks for the link to the reviews. I should have thought of the newsletter, but I've been reading my flist on a journals-only filter for a while because of time constraints and I managed to forget it existed. Duh!

[katie_m]

Ah, it's working now. Aw! So cute and one-biteable!

[sdwolfpup]

I missed your triumphant completion of the project. Thank god. It's good to see your posts on my friendslist once more. I hope you're treating yourself to some MUCH DESERVED good times.

Good luck with the fires, too - I'm hoping there's nothing left to burn this season in SoCal.

[danceswithwords]

I am looking at pie recipes right now, which is much, much nicer than working, that's for sure.

Fortunately, we don't have any actual fires too nearby, but the smoke is AWFUL. I hope there aren't too many fires down there either; it's been such a dry year.