Thursday, September 11, 2025

Two forgotten bits of childhood:

1) I remember my mother making ice candles - you take like plastic Halloween treat buckets and fill them with water and take them in before they completely freeze, to empty out the water from the center and keep the rest of the ice as like a candle-holder.

Only, I don't remember that me and my brother used to like to kneel on chairs by the sink and chisel out the top from the ice, which my mother says we did.

2) I remember us buying cobs of corn from this one farm that was just north of the elementary school that I attended -- like, we knew the family, and they had a stand out by the road with corn that people could stop by and buy.

Only, I don't remember the time that we stopped by and wanted more corn than they had on hand, and so the wife from the family told us to just go out into the field and pick the rest for ourselves, which my mother says we did.

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