HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!

Like many other long-married couples, Forry and I don't do too much in the way of gift-giving. It seems like if we want something, we usually just go ahead and get it (though we often rationalize a large purchase as being a combination birthday/Christmas present). For Valentine's Day, we usually do give each other cards, often one funny one and another sappy one. This year I decided to make Forry a cherry pie as a special Valentine.

That doesn't sound like much until you think about the logistics of trying to make pie crust and pie filling from scratch in the limited space of our RV kitchen. We had the kitchen table removed last year when the fellows in Oregon built in my desk, so there really isn't much space to roll something out. Fortunately, the little pull-out cutting board above the silverware drawer is just the right width.

The pie did manage to survive without being dumped or spilled until dinner time -- though it did get moved from place to place to place while I was fixing dinner. We had spaghetti made with some of the frozen tomato sauce Sister Sherry and I made last fall while we were at the Touchet farm.

It was laundry day today, and it was so nice and hot that the clothes dried very quickly. The wonderful warm weather we have had for the past couple of weeks is supposed to be supplanted by rain within the next day or two.