PI DAY: 3.14 -REBLOG FROM THE ARCHIVES

REBLOG FROM THE ARCHIVES – PHOTOGRAPHED ON FRIDAY THE 13TH 2015

“March 14 is a great day for fans of math. And pies or pizza. Pi Day, held on March 14 in honor of 3.14, the measurement calculating the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter”

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3.14.15 9:26:53 CELEBRATING SPECIAL PI DAY AT SCHOOL

A very special Pi Day. Once in a century. Tomorrow, 3.14.15 is it. Get ready!

Celebrated at school today, 3-13-15._ Spearheaded by Mrs. Mihalic. Creating some spirit!

There were numbers posted all around the hallways on the 800 level to who-knows-what place…..some cool art which I didn’t get to photograph yet.

And my neighbor across the hall…. I went in this morning and said “Hey, where’s your Pi shirt?” and then she turned around and showed me!

The librarian, wearing the machine stitched embroidery shirt her Mother, J.E., created esepcially for her.`

Mrs. Mihalic, math teacher, created a wildly spirited event, complete with Pi Day cookies she special ordered from Eat’n Park

In the cafeteria there was a game where students could win a slice of pie. (Similar to a Cake Walk)

Posting this one so you can see how you had to land on a certain number when the music stopped to win a slice of pie.

Photographed by Steve after school Friday the 13th. I’m wearing one of the shirts Mrs. Mihalic created.

A different shirt worn by one of my photography students.Everyone was getting in on the festivities.

March 13, 2026 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: archives, high school, math, photography, pi day, pie, Pittsburgh PA, postaday, reblog 3 Comments

Easier than Baking a Cheesecake

If you like cheesecake you will like this simple recipe.

Recipe from Ann Walling, my dad’s church secretary at St.Paul’s Morris Plains NJ 1960-1970

Beat until smooth

1 pound cream cheese room temp

3/4 C sugar

3 eggs

1 t almond extract

Bake in a buttered pie plate at 350 until done (knife in Center comes clean) about 45 min

Cool 8 minutes -center will sink

add topping

Mix and pour mixture into center indentation

1 C sour cream

3 T sugar

1 t vanilla

Return to oven for 10 minutes

June 9, 2025June 10, 2025 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: baking, dessert cream cheese, photography, pie, postaday, recipe 11 Comments

Apple Pie and Cheddar Cheese?

Apple pie with a slice of sharp cheddar cheese?

Yes or no?

Here’s an article about this polarizing combination

Most popular in New England these days. Not in the South

“Cheese, specifically sharp cheddar, has been served with apple pie in the U.S. as early as the 1800s. But the combination was likely born in England in the 17^th century; a tradition of using dairy-based sauces in pies evolved into an affinity for topping pie with cheese instead”

Perhaps you’re an a la mode pie eater with a warm slice and vanilla ice cream.

Or an abstainer.

A rather large slab of cheese. Faor the photo.

October 10, 2023 by Ruth Categories: PhotographyTags: apple pie, cheddar cheese, cheese, food, kitchen, photography, pie, postaday, preferences 16 Comments

Red Raspberry Pie

Three months ago I helped someone with their knitting. Yesterday they came to my front porch and I received this unexpected treat. Raspberries are about my favorite fruit. They taste like summer.

“Sand Hill Berries is a family-owned and operated small fruits farm located in the foothills of the beautiful Laurel Highlands of southwestern Pennsylvania. Our farm specializes in red raspberries, red currants, black currants, gooseberries, yellow raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, and strawberries”

July 24, 2023 by Ruth Categories: Baking, PhotographyTags: food, front porch, fruit pie, knitting, photography, pie, postaday, raspberries, red raspberry, Sand Hill Berries, summer fruit 21 Comments

It’s Pi Day

What is pi? “pi—which is written as the Greek letter for p, or π—is the ratio of the circumference of any circle to the diameter of that circle”

If you want to know how pi originated click this Scientific American article

Rob this post is for you. Rob is a certified Pie Judge. Here’s a post of National Pie day in January 2012. Sorry I missed National Day Pie Day this year but now it’s Pi Day 3.14.

Did you know you can order Pi Day sock yarn? maybe for next year Fibernymph Dyeworks says “ all of our Pi Day colorways, the striping pattern is based on the numeric sequence of pi – 3.141592…, which is a non-repeating number. Thus, the stripe sequence does not repeat within the skein, and you will not be able to get a matching pair of socks (or anything) from a single skein. But if you’re a math geek, that’s part of the fun! We include a stitch marker affixed to the beginning of the sequence”

Pi Day at high school was celebrated in 2015