Our two cooks  spent the day in the kitchen cooking up a storm.  Delicious odors wafting through the house made sure we all understood there were good things to come.  When they left, everything was in readiness.  Everything that is except the last thirty minutes of baking both the mango pie and the pizza.  That was my contribution to the meal.  When the appointed hour arrived I turned on the wall mounted convection oven and popped the pizza and pie back in for that final bake.  Half way through the electricity went out.  Oh no!  Yelling for Papa Jim, he came to the rescue.  Lighting gas ovens is above my pay grade to put it mildly.  It takes forever for the oven to heat up, but we quickly switched things around and hoped for the best.  Ten minutes later the electricity unexpectedly returned.  And so the two items were hauled back to the convection oven with a hope that they would be done on time.  Fortunately our guests graciously suggested we leisurely eat our salads first.  All's well that ends well.  Everyone declared that the pizza was the best ever.  And mango pie is always a hit, no matter what.  Life at Shiloh is never dull.  Never boring.   Calmness in uncertainty and change.  That's our motto.