Just Deserts

 Well, I hope everybody had an enjoyable Thanksgiving.  Mine was quiet.  Just me cooking and napping.  Relaxation with out any concerns is a very good thing.  It was sort of like being on solo auto pilot, if you get my drift.  Not having to cook for more then myself, my celebration of peace and quiet was accomplished in waves.  Even though I hadn't planned on a desert, that tasty treat came first.  More than a pumpkin pie than a cheesecake, I didn't know if it would turn out well or not... it did.  There's a buttery, flakey crust on the bottom and the sides caramelized in the pan.  And it turned out to be quite tasty.

Of course, the turkey, and the stuffing, and the side veggie were also cooked, but sometimes it's the deserts we look forward to most.

Today is Black Friday.  We have none of the extraneous bullshit products we normally proffer to our customers; no pink or blue rocking horses, no child size motor scooters, no glow in the dark art kits are on sale.  Our Black Friday display has been set for almost 2 weeks.  There will be some significant price drops on some items, that's the lure.  And no, just in case you thought of asking, there are no sales in flooring.  People need to stop equating 'special deals' with 'just deserts,' they're totally different.

Last evening there was the flashing headline that the Idiot Jerk would leave the White House if the Electoral College gave the election to Joe Biden.  Someone should tell that dumbshit he doesn't have a choice.  I find it amusing that Republicans are beginning to whisper how this little voter scam he's trying to pull are going to ruin his legacy.  Someone should tell them his legacy will be immortalized in his inability to deal with Covid 19.  He also implied he may not go to Biden's inauguration.  That will be rather difficult since he's most likely going to be having brunch with his blow bro Vlad.  You do know that in his mind, that alone will be his 'just desert.'

Pumpkin Hell

I was reading John's blog this morning about the flower show, very quaint in a good sort of way.  We don't have anything like that around here.  I don't think we ever did.  For years and years and years, Enola was a railroad town and, unfortunately, many of those in nearby communities viewed it as being 'on the wrong side of the tracks.'  Everybody who lived here worked for the railroad and most of what came through was coal on it's way to Bethlehem Steel.  Coal is dirty, so for a long time we were a dirty, little town.  Of course things have changed.  We still have the railroad, but it rarely, if ever, ships coal.  Now everybody wants to live here and what ever might have been considered quaint is disappearing.

It would be nice if we had the quaintness of a flower show, instead we have the East Pennsboro Pumpkin Festival (ie Pumpkin Fest).  And it's big.  Why we have it is beyond me since this area is not known for either its pumpkin growers or its pumpkins.

This is what it looked like in 2011.  It is also the park where I take the dogs for their walk.

To get an idea as to how big this thing is, the area on the right?  Those are the vendor booths.  They peddle anything and everything pumpkin.

This pic is, again, from 2011.  Oh, and I have to correct myself, there is also a car show which runs in conjunction with the pumpkin festivities.  See the little, yellow school bus?  Parking is so terrible they need to shuttle people in from nearby parking lots.

I like pumpkin pie, and pumpkin cookies, and pumpkin bread, but I've never bought any of those items from the Pumpkin Fest.  You see, I've never been to the Pumpkin Fest.  I have no desire to go, to have to deal with the traffic, to have to pay to park (even in those outlying lots where you need a shuttle to get to the festival).  This thing is far too big to be quaint.  People attend by the thousands.  i guess they just don't know the difference between a pumpkin festival and pumpkin hell.