What a beautiful day here!

[quote]I have astors and cosmos in bloom.

John Jacob and Mary?

Good one, R1!

Hi, Greg.

Hello, R3.

Lovely day. So far I've rebuilt the engine on my car, built an addition onto my house. Cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner for the entire week. Pruned every tree in a 3 mile radius and just finished learning Chinese. And I've had nothing but time to post on DL too!

Wow, R5! That’s impressive.

But if you are suggesting that I haven’t done what I reported, you would be mistaken.

I feel like I'm reading Martha Stewart's calendar.

Doing some gardening and making apple butter is not really heavy lifting.

I also have done four loads of laundry.

If you know how to manage your time, you can get a lot done and still have pauses where you can post on DL.

Are you a bottom, Greg?

Why do you ask, R9?

I don’t care whether Greg is a bottom or a top or neither, but I hope he does have a good recipe for black bottom pie!

Thanks, R11!

I’ve never made a black-bottom pie before.

Have you? And if so, is it good?

I love meringue, so will give this a try sometime.

Thanks!

I don’t cook, Greg, but I enjoy your threads and the various reactions to them nonetheless. Many years ago I did try what was called a “French black bottom pie”. It was delicious, and I don’t normally don’t like an overabundance of rich chocolate.

Very nice — thank you, R13.

The reactions to what I post are often quite something!

Is the French black-bottom pie different from just black-bottom pie?

Greg, not having had regular black bottom pie, and not being a connoisseur, the only difference I could see was the “French” version had a lot more chocolate.

Which grades if you don’t mind my asking?

Wrong thread at R16.

I was wondering, R15, if the French version had a French meringue and the other version had whipped cream or either Swiss or Italian meringue.

Haha, Greg. My palette is definitely too broad to have known such differences. I don’t remember whipped cream.

Okay, R19.

Thank you for sharing that recipe. I will definitely make it.

Hope you’re having a nice day.

I found this on the interwebz. When I had French black bottom pie it was on a business trip in the U.S. south.

[quote] What is a French black bottom pie? This pie is also super similar to our black bottom pie. Both have the “black bottom” or chocolate crust and both are topped with whipped cream. The French black bottom pie has a chocolate pastry cream layer or pudding. Sometimes instead of whipped cream, a French black bottom pie will have meringue on top.

Given I don’t remember whipped cream, it must have been a meringue.

^ Yum!

Thank you!

This black bottom pie thing is all sounding dirty to me.

But I have the humor of an 18 year old about a lot of things.

[quote]Haha, Greg. My palette is definitely too broad to have known such differences. I don’t remember whipped cream.

Oh, dear. Unless you're a painter.

Oops. You are correct R24.

OMG Martha Stewart is a bottom!

"One of Louisiana’s only"

I know it's not important but it's bugging me. What did I misread?

[quote] OMG Martha Stewart is a bottom!

I rather doubt that.

Glad to hear!

Fiance from The Noth Shawr, MA retired here with me in SF a few months ago. It's a rare, rainy day in Septembah on the West Coast. Eying the Meyer Lemons on my tree for a potential custard pie, but not feeling the labor and cleanup and my unpredictable, psycho oven. Watching Anna's Hummingbirds, a California woodpecker, finches(?), scrub jays, and two asshole squirrels all dine on the Coastal Silk Tassel Tree that I planted almost 30 years ago. Native plants support native species. Planning for our marriage in Salem, MA next month, with a honeymoon trip to Acadia. And another tasting menu at Nightshade Noodlehouse in Lynn that might lead to bankruptcy. Looking forward to seeing Fall in New England again. Not sure if we can afford to keep his place in MA and be bicoastal.

Hope you enjoy the Labor Day Weekend. This is truly a beautiful time of year to be alive.

r27 Wrong thread.

Any tips to getting your cosmos to stay healthy in to September? Ours were glorious in June and July, but have gone sadly downhill since. (Oddly our celosia did especially well this summer)

I love the Cape. I would live there if I could. When I was growing up we had a summer house in North Eastham. Coast Guard beach is the best beach in the world. I remember at night, even in the middle of August, if you had the windows open you would need a blanket. It was just a perfect way to spend your Summers when you were a kid. All my changes are there. In the lung run the house gets sold and the young grow very, very old.

Greg, do you spray your apple tree? A neighbor has 2 apple trees and they always produce small fruit and lots of bugs get to them.

Endlessly dull.

[quote] Endlessly dull.

If you are talking about yourself, R34, that’s very believable.

Picking on me will get you nowhere.

[quote] Greg, do you spray your apple tree? A neighbor has 2 apple trees and they always produce small fruit and lots of bugs get to them.

Yes, I do. I’m still learning, however. Pruning is very important. One may even have to prune it heavily and sacrifice a year of fruit production.

I also have an espaliered apple tree, which is very nice.

[quote] Any tips to getting your cosmos to stay healthy in to September? Ours were glorious in June and July, but have gone sadly downhill since.

Hello, ElderLez.

You might try staggering your seed planting to play with plant heights and bloom times.

I love cosmos.

Do you grow poppies? Oriental poppies are so lovely in the spring.

Just thinking, R34, if this is so dull, perhaps you could post something of interest, rather than commenting like a child on what doesn’t hold your attention.

It might be asking a lot, but that would be one way an adult would deal with his boredom.

Otherwise, beat it.

No poppies anymore since they are toxic to dogs.

[quote] No poppies anymore since they are toxic to dogs.

Ah, makes sense.

Is Patti Page on your Victrola, gramps?

I bet you're going to use that apple butter for lube at your weekly senior fisting party.

[quote] Are you a bottom, Greg?

Ew, like anyone would want to fuck Gerg.

Windy and rainy for days here in Hawaii. So sick of it.

[quote] Ew, like anyone would want to fuck Gerg.

I can assure you, R42, that has never been a problem.

You, however …

Orland Bloom times

Beautiful Day is over.

Greg, your place does sound like a little slice of heaven. Your partner is very lucky.

Boi Butter

[quote] Greg, your place does sound like a little slice of heaven. Your partner is very lucky.

So am I, R47.

Thank you!

Another beautiful day for gardening.

I’ve been at it since this morning—transplanting and preparing the garden for winter.

I had two friends come last night for dinner and an overnight and we’ve been hard at work all day.

Greg if you’re going to make black bottom pie, use The Joy of Cooking recipe. It’s the classic version.

Greg really lives in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

He's posting from his studio apartment overlooking a long ago closed and rusting steel mill.

Thank you, R51, I will definitely give that a try.

[quote] Greg really lives in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He's posting from his studio apartment overlooking a long ago closed and rusting steel mill.

Whatever makes you feel better, R52.

Eat me. This Gregg from the back bay takes over every thread.

He makes me miss my apt from 2007-2010!!!!

Right on Beacon at the Storrow Dr exit! I should have stayed!

163 Beacon, baby!

Billyburg, which copyright date?

163 Beacon!

It was a lovely day. I spent the morning shoveling all the shit from the Summer out of my outhouse. Makes great fertilizer for my garden. The fresh herbs love it. Now I'll be set until Spring.

That sounds productive, R58!

Greg- I had such great neighbors. They literally tracked a guy from Manalapan who robbed me while I was at work.

I am not joking- street to street- they followed the guy and he was arrested-

My neighbors looked like a more handsome Adam Levine and the lady looked like a prettier Margot Robbie. just a gorgeous couple and so, so lovely- They were so classy and kind. Maybe 28-32 or so-

These two even went to the pre trial or whatever its called? Grand jury-

A stunning and lovely couple- I think about them sometimes and hope that they got married and were happy forever. They would be my age or slightly younger now - probably 40-45? Maybe they still live there.... just a dream at this point.

I like Gregg, but he reminds me of a time in my life where i was FREE and took some serious chances. i miss it.

Upper Cape, Lower Cape? Provincetown, Sandwich? Where is this all happening?

R61? My 10+ year old robbery- 163 Beacon, baby!!!!!

Its where all the shit gets REAL in the back bay!

I don't care about your decade-old robbery, R62; I want to know where on Cape Cod OP was enjoying the beautiful day.

Lower Cape, R61.

I'm guessing Chatham.