A long time family favorite that I obtained from my Grandama. I have added notes to her recipie based on what I have learned over the decades I have been making this pie. Only change I have made is that I use gluten free cookies.

16 graham crackers or chocolate wafers crushed (just over a cup of crushed crackers)

or

12 whole chocolate sandwich cookies (Oreos) crushed (I always leave the frosting on the cookies as it will help them stick together).

3 tbsp melted butter
1/2 cup sugar

Mix crackers/wafers/cookies with melted butter and sugar.

Camping Pie Iron a simple cooking tools but makes for some great pizza or pies. All you do is take two slices of bread add filling between them as you would a sandwich and then place it in the fire for a few minutes. Length of time varies depending on how hot the fire is!

Pro tip - since they unscrew from the handles I re-seasoned these in the oven. I have often found that cast iron, even if sold pre-seasoned, benefits from having another "treatment".

I spent the last few days concentrating really hard and end up with 3.75 gallons of Maple Syrup! Trees were tapped on March 13, 2022 and it took a few days before there was any flow, started out slowly but has been between 16-20 gallons per day the last few days!

Lots of popcorn for watching movies this winter!

Well the potatoes are in! There were actually three other pails but one has already been eaten and I sold two!

Now that is one odd looking potato! Tasted good though!

It looks like I am going to have some huge potatoes from the three rows of russets!

I have found yet another item to my, "I Have to Try That List"! You apparently can make charcoal from corn cobs! http://web.mit.edu/mmadinot/Public/corn-cob.pdf

Yes you read right! It is still in the research and development stage but "glass" can be made from wood! https://www.inceptivemind.com/transparent-wood-material-window-tomorrow… also see https://phys.org/news/2019-11-transparent-wood-material-future.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent_wood_composite

I am sure we have all spent half a night pondering just how to dolphins sleep. Dolphins, being air-breathing mammals do need to surface, regularly, to breath in air which would pose a problem for sleeping! Dolphins are able to achieve this by having one side of the brain sleep at a time. So while the right half is sleeping the left half stays awake and allows the dolphin to swim, surface, and breath. After about 20 minutes the left side wakes up and the right side goes to sleep.

Looks like I will have plenty of cabbage to last me the year! Most of it will be turned into sauerkraut but will make cabbage and pork soup with a bunch as well!

This year brought a plentiful sweet corn harvest! The first two rows went in the freezer and the second two rows I am going to ferment/pickle!

Still have more to harvest but glad I will have enough for the winter!

The beans are really producing this year! I had kept seeds from last year and not only did they grow but they were true to color! This is actually the second batch not counting all the beans we have already eaten!

In just a few days the plants produced a bunch!

They are just starting but we ate them any way!

Zucchini is producing! Time for some Battered Zucchini!

This year I decided to try a different type of dill. Was labeled Mammoth Dill and although I am always skeptical of packaging claims I decided to give it a try. Definitely turned out to be true and now I am eagerly waiting for the cucumbers to start producing!

The pea experiment worked! and The Rabbit Boundary also worked! The peas are beginning to produce and we ate our first garden produce today!

Nothing is better than home grown peas!

One of the first things I realized after I started using my 1978 Bethany Pop-up camper is that there was a fair bit of movement once it was set up. Just walking into it caused it to shift which puts a lot of stress on the camper. It also causes one to be concerned about it tipping which has happened to many others. Especially if only one of the beds are being used as then its one big teeter totter/lever and probably the last thing you want waking you up!