by Kimberly A. Cook (Twitter@ WarriorTales)
My favorite time of year arrives again, Pumpkin Pie baking time. One of the great things about Thanksgiving is being grateful for all the people, family and friends in our lives; sharing pumpkin pie seems the perfect way to celebrate.
I’ve gathered my ingredients and will be in a baking frenzy tomorrow night. So while I am mixing pumpkin and pouring in evaporated milk, eggs, spices and sugar, it’s a good time to thank everyone who reads my little blog here. At last count there are 69 twitter folks and 161 WordPress folks following my activities.
Thank you for your kind attention to my work. Thought I should have a name for us. When I was volunteering for the USS Ranger Foundation I decided to use Team Ranger to describe our volunteers, board and staff. At the time the whole vampire “Twilight” thing was going on, so it wasn’t a far stretch.
I thought perhaps we should be Team Quirky. Then I realized that might lead to all kinds of trouble I didn’t want to deal with online, down a slippery rabbit hole so to speak. So in the interest of keeping this relatively clean and fun, I’d decided on Team Cookie. My nickname in the Army was Cookie and so was my Dad’s when he served, so I feel it’s a family tradition. But I tried Team Cookie and Google told me someone else has the name. Figures.
Perplexing problem. Will have to think on it some more. But thank you all for being a part of Team to be named later with a high draft pick choice, I hope.
Since I can’t send crumbs through the digital media, how about pie? For those of you who live by a Shari’s Restaurant, they have this new program the Shari’s Café Club. I was so excited to find out about this since I’m not yet eligible for an Honored Citizen card for several more years. They’ve merged the two programs and now anyone can get a Shari’s Café Club card at Shari’s.
When you register you get a piece of free pie in that month and then another free piece of pie for your birthday. I’m already up two pieces of pie! So if you want free pie, trot over to Shari’s and get one of those cards. You earn points for every dollar you spend at Shari’s. I’m thinking earning future pie dollars….
No matter what is happening in your life right now, know I appreciate your support and did my best to get you free pie as a thank you. Hugs all around. Have a great Thanksgiving everybody!
www.mysharis.com for info.
(I am not getting pie kickbacks for this either. Rats!)
Sally Petersen says
Well, if you can’t use Team Cookie, why not The Cookie Team?
Kimberly A. Cook says
Good name, but sounds like I might give out cookies. Pie, yes, cookies? Maybe not…… I am a cookie hoarder.
Cindy Hiday says
We’re all, unofficially, your quirky warriors, until you come up with something clever and inspired. 🙂 I’m on my way to Shari’s for free pie!
Kimberly A. Cook says
I just registered my pie card! Free pie! Hope you got yours.
Janet says
Alas. Only one slice of pumpkin pie leftover from Thanksgiving! Not to worry. Thanks to my “prepper” mentality, I have a pantry stocked with enough supplies for the next 23.6 years! Hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful!
Kimberly A. Cook says
We had a nice Turkey Day, hope yours was good too. I do have pumpkin pie still in the frig…… AND tons of canned pumpkin in the pantry too. Brilliant minds…