Side note, if you ever want to attract a Marine walk through the barracks with an apple pie fresh out of the oven. (I lived five blocks from base.) I swear they were dropping out of the ceiling to follow me to the guard room.

(2) Little did I know I had made one of their favorite desserts. I’ll never forget the look on their face, ever.

Anyway, we made our 25th anniversary pie tonight and it was perfect.

(1) So the night of my wedding shower I was restless & had a lot of apples around so I decided to make some pies. My soon-to-be spouse was on duty at the Marine barracks, so I decided to bring one of the pies up for dessert.

I wear an apron everyday, so I have quite a collection. This year I’m upgrading to better quality fabric. I’ve been sharing over there, thought I’d share here as well. This one is for spring, that bird fabric is just perfect.

Let’s see how this works.

So apparently blurry because compression something something. I’ll make it easy and stick to pictures.

This week’s apron. It’s still Yuletide over here.

I don’t know why it’s out of focus but it’s a start.

I want to see if I can put my little videos here.

White chocolate peppermint cookies.