pie box
i built a pie box. a pie box is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. a box for pies. the beautiful and talented alisa had made one apple pie, two pumpkin pies, and a lenser tort for thanksgiving. all delicacies needed to be moved from here to sacramento intact. we needed something to transport them in where they wouldn't shift around. and nothing would fall into them. a pie box. the largest pie was 10 apples and 12". we had a nice mostly cubical box 13.5" on a side. and i had some leftover pegboard 12" wide and 8' long. so i made three stands out of the pegboard that fit snugly into the box. pies got there no worries. astute readers will have noticed that a rectangular stand 12" x 13.5" won't exactly fit snugly in the box. ho ho! i didn't make square stands. i made rhombus shaped stands. there's a nice math puzzle for you. figure out the lengths of the sides of the the rhombus. bonus points for finding a closed form. muhahahahahahahah! enjoy.