The first Pie

 I am not a baker.
I have never baked a single thing  before I agreed to a bet of  baking  365 pies~ from scratch none the less!
The reality of this bet, of just how long  it would take  to reach said amount
never leaped into my mind.
I was blinded by that future ring on my finger.
The night I baked my first pie (which was Blueberry) the worst of all possible things happened :  it was nearly perfect.
By some divine intervention, or desperation, I managed to pull it off.
Now how can that  be a problem?
I'll tell ya...that success planted within me a false hope
 that (and pardon the expression)
this was going to be a cake walk.
HA.
How I managed to bake that pie truly WAS a miracle. Here I was ..in a kitchen with no mixing bowls, no rolling pin, and no cookbook.
No problem.
I Googled~ found a video on YouTube and played it over and over again till
I "got it".  Next, download a recipe from  allrecipes.com.
 OK... so I have my recipe, I have my how to video, check the cupboard, cool, I got the ingredients.
My most creative solution for the lack of one crucial  utensil was to use a Mexican Novena candle for a rolling pin. Everything was rolling along quite smoothly, sorta.  I didn't know at the time that dough isn't suppose to be sticky, and it needs to chill.
What made this pie  such a happy surprise was the filling.
The berry filling was solid and not the runny mess I assumed it would be.
In retrospect that  first pie wasn't really that good. For one thing,  it wasn't even cooked all the way!  I mean how could it??The crust was over a half inch thick! Oh well, it seemed good enough for us at the time. My guy was impressed... sweet.
It gave me the confidence to keep on going.
The next 5 or six proved to me that this wasn't as easy as pie.
And WTF  is up with that expression anyway?
Who ever came up with that one obviously never made a pie.
Making a dough is no  laughing matter. This is serious business.
If only I had paid attention In my Junior High Home Ec. class. Heck if only I had been cooking at all, but stubborn me, I feel sure as anything I can do this.