Support your local library and buy a pie - what could be better?! The library buys the pie pans, volunteer pie bakers pick them up and deliver pies at 8:30 in the morning. The first photo shows one of the bakers and the community's ace pie buyer, Tom, who is always first in line. Tom gets before 8:30 so he can look over every pie as they're delivered. This way he can also know where to head when the sale opens. (He also has other secret pie buying strategies which I'm not allowed to divulge.) By 8:50 the line for the sale stretches down the street. You may not be able to tell from the second photo but Tom is first in line and I'm second as "pie buyer in training". (I felt very honored as not everyone is invited to train under Tom.) The tapes across the doors are cut at 9:00 and folks rush in ("rush in" is more like stampede but you get the idea). I have my eye on a blueberry and a lemon meringue. Score the blueberry but the lemon disappeared before I could edge my way there. 9:15 and half the pies are sold. It takes a while to take in all that money after all. 9:30 all the pies are gone and the library has made well over a thousand dollars. Wow!
Now for a piece of that blueberry pie....
