Squash Pie

This afternoon Shelly decided that she wanted to carve a pumpkin, which made me hungry for pumpkin pie. So I pulled out The Farm Journal Complete Pie Cookbook to see if I could figure out how to make a real pumpkin pie without that canned stuff since we have real pumpkins. As I was perusing recipes, one for squash pie caught my eye. Since a) I've never had squash pie, b) it sounded interesting, and c) the pumpkins were in the garden and the squash were on the porch and I was too lazy to go all the way out there... I decided to try squash. It was fun! I had to roast it first and then puree it and then add a bunch of good stuff. It tasted a lot like pumpkin. Mom said that Grandma used to make squash pie and called it "poor man's pumpkin." I'm not sure how Dad feels about it... we didn't tell him what it was and he doesn't like squash. :)

Vectors and Trig functions

Tonight I turned tutor and went over to my cousins' to help Kendra with her physics. She's learning all about vectors and vector components and adding and subtracting them and it was really fun for me. I don't know if it was for her so much, I'm not a very good at explaining things. Especially math, if I can see an example I get it... but to explain it to somebody else so they understand... yeah, I'm glad I'm a chemist.

Then the little girls brought out their knitting projects for me to fix. They're so funny. Somehow Carli's is twice as long as it's supposed to be. The entire time they were fixing they managed to tell me all about their knitting class and their friends' projects at least twice.

My car makes an awful squealing noise when I turn it on. And I'm losing coolant fast! I topped it off on Saturday and it's already below the cold fill line... eeeesh.

Shopping

One of the perks of being home is living with Jakey again.

We went to the mall tonight. He doesn't like girl stores.... and he told me that "chivalry is dead" and wouldn't carry any shopping bags even though it was mostly his stuff. :)

Zippers

Are the bane of my existence.

First I broke a needle.

Then I broke my zipper foot.

Then I broke mom's zipper foot.

Then it didn't look right so I took the zipper back out.

Eeesh.



I went to Ohio, it was good. Went to Champaign to stay with the girls, it was fun. Listened to some cool music in Tremont and sang in a bin, different and enjoyable. Worked late tonight and got caught up. Happy Gab?