PieQuest IV: Make your own

I said in my last post that I would be making a pie this weekend, and so I did. It wasn't blackberry, though. Tammie and I went to the Tower Grove Farmers' Market with Lenora, and I bought a bag of the season's first local peaches. I thought I might invent a blackberry-peach pie (and I may yet do that), but Tammie said I'd been talking up Mom's Peach-a-berry (peach, bing cherry, blueberry) pie for so long and would I please make one of those first. The blackberries could remain in the freezer a little longer.

So between blueberries from Aldi, cherries from Schnucks, the farm peaches, and the freezer vodka, I made this, Saturday night:



That's the last remaining piece.

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After work this evening, I had driven out of the parking lot and a quarter mile or so down the road, when I heard an ominous noise, somewhere between a *pop* and a *thunk*. It didn't feel like anything had hit me, and the car hadn't juddered, but all the same, I figured it was best to check it out before getting onto the highway. I pulled into the grocery store parking lot and walked around the car looking at the axles, the tires, and the bodywork. No dents, no flats, nothing out of the ordinary.

I got onto the highway. After driving a few miles, I heard the sound again. I started paranoically trying to sense whether the car was shaking or leaning. Nothing. I kept driving. Sound again.

Finally, it occurred to me that when I'd done the walkaround I had seen a case of Coke in the back. Maybe something to do with that?

Nearly an hour later, I finally arrived at Stitch-n-Bitch. First thing I did, I went to the back to see. Sure enough, exploded Coke cans and sticky syrup could be seen.

At home, later still, Tammie and I took all the cans out of the car. Of twelve cans in the case, exactly three had survived. All the rest were either expanded or completely popped: some even were nearly empty without any visible hole in the aluminum.

Oddly, though, there wasn't nearly enough mess to account for nine 12-ounce cans. The only thing we can think is that the soda must have evaporated. Which leaves me wondering when I can expect the sodensation.