{"id":677,"date":"2018-02-28T23:52:47","date_gmt":"2018-03-01T04:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=677"},"modified":"2018-02-28T23:55:03","modified_gmt":"2018-03-01T04:55:03","slug":"kevin-skeoch-at-canadian-national-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=677","title":{"rendered":"APPLE PIE FROM DUSTY APPLES featuring ROCK HARD PASTRY"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>APPLE PIE FROM DUSTY APPLES featuring ROCK HARD PASTRY<\/p>\n<div class=\"moz-forward-container\">\n<div class=\"\">alan skeoch<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Feb. 2018<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<p>For a few \u00a0years we constructed rural displays for Ivan Goring that were assembled at the Canadian National Exhibition and the<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>Royal winter Fair. \u00a0 Here is Kevin hoping that someone will come along to admire our work.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/mdffkaiaebpokaeo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">At the end of this show we had to clear out our fanning mills, corn shellers, \u00a0\u2026 and one huge cast iron cook stove. Dad came along to help. \u00a0His help was always risky. \u00a0In this case he filled the cook stove oven \u00a0with as many apples as he could steal from the apple booth\u2026about two bushels. \u00a0When we picked up the stove the oven door popped open and apples rolled like marbles all over the place\u2026some of them even rolled to the apple booth. \u00a0Dad grinned. A bit embarrassed \u00a0I suppose. \u00a0 \u00a0He gathered up as many as he could. \u00a0He took no responsibility. \u00a0 As I remember he used them to make his first apple pie at home. \u00a0His pastry was bullet hard\u2026break your teeth hard\u2026rock hard.\u00a0 Mom and Marjorie said \u201cYou bought this pie!\u201d \u00a0Dad got really miffed\u2026hurt. \u201cMade the goddamn thing from those apples.\u201d\u00a0 Do you mean the apples that rolled across the CNE floor? \u00a0Did you wash them, floor was dirty?\u201d \u201cMade it myself damnit all\u201d \u201cA little dust won\u2019t hurt you.\u201d\u00a0 Mom went to check the garbage for dusty apple dealings. \u00a0Empty. \u00a0No evidence one way or the other. \u00a0One thing is for sure\u2026this was the only apple pie Red Skeoch ever made\u2026if he \u00a0really made it.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Dad \u00a0left &#8230; horses were running at Woodbine \u00a0racetrack \u2026 said nothing \u2026 was a bit angry. \u00a0 We were never sure he made that pie.\u00a0 Ungrateful, I suppose.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">\n<p>alan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>APPLE PIE FROM DUSTY APPLES featuring ROCK HARD PASTRY alan skeoch Feb. 2018 For a few \u00a0years we constructed rural displays for Ivan Goring that were assembled at the Canadian National Exhibition and the Royal winter Fair. \u00a0 Here is Kevin hoping that someone will come along to admire our work. At the end of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":680,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/677\/revisions\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}