Lazy Crazy Days of Ice Cream

Trip Start Jun 18, 2005
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Trip End Jan 01, 2006


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Monday, August 15, 2005

When I was a kid, before the days of air conditioning and television, yes, way back THEN, summer evenings were what we lived for. Kick the Can and Hide and Seek were better played at twilight time, as lightning bugs flickered from grass to bush, and heat lightning flashed ever so gently in the distant sky. If you happened to live next door to Tommy, whose father always had time to spin a ghostly yarn, well, you even got to see the tombstones dance.

What more could a kid want? The answer is ICE CREAM. Every household had an ice cream freezer at the ready on the back porch; the kind you packed with ice and rock salt, layer by layer. That's how you made it through the heat, but there was a price to pay. Whoever wanted ice cream had to take a turn; the crank spun easily at first but got harder as the milky mixture turned to slosh, and finally something SOLID. Oh, how we suffered on ice cream evenings 336 Ice cream parlor ready for business
336 Ice cream parlor ready for business
 . Suffered through the wait, suffered through the cranking, but most of all, suffered through the ice cream headache pain. Who can eat ice cream slowly? Who, indeed?

Ice Cream Cranking never interested my sons. After all, there was a Dairy Queen or a Frosty Freeze on every corner and besides, if you got hot you just went inside and flipped on the TV. Theme Song junkies they are to this day, still able to rattle off every verse of Gilligan's Isle at the slightest coax.

And so I thought, I'll introduce the Ice Cream Tradition to my grandkids. I'll buy an Ice Cream Freezer! We'll enjoy lazy crazy days together. Perhaps I can import some lightning bugs (I've never actually seen one in Seattle). I had a few ghost stories I could tell, but the heat lightning was a lost cause in this peaceful place where it only thunders twice a year.

So the freezer would be my journey to the PAST, as I circled in the PRESENT, counting down to Antarctica, the White Continent, a place I've never been before.

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337 Ready for the crowd 337 Ready for the crowd 338 Two more bags of fish 338 Two more bags of fish 339 Kayla plants six 339 Kayla plants six 340 Where are they? 340 Where are they?
341 Runaway goldfish 341 Runaway goldfish 342 OK that's better 342 OK that's better 343 Are they under the bridge? 343 Are they under the bridge? 344 Try it from this side. 344 Try it from this side.
345 Lotta wind needed 345 Lotta wind needed 346 Why eat when you can make faces? 346 Why eat when you can make faces? 347 Sam eating chips 347 Sam eating chips 348 Matt is Rubber Band Man 348 Matt is Rubber Band Man
349 Let's get wet little buddy 349 Let's get wet little buddy 350 Kayla is taking no chances 350 Kayla is taking no chances 351 Sam is a Blue-eyed Champ 351 Sam is a Blue-eyed Champ 352 Sun glare is fierce 352 Sun glare is fierce
353 Meanwhile, back at the ranch 353 Meanwhile, back at the ranch 354 How much longer? 354 How much longer? 355 The No Chins Pose 355 The No Chins Pose 356 Dali might have done this 356 Dali might have done this
357 Lego mania and Koolaid mouths 357 Lego mania and Koolaid mouths 358 Why won't it freeze? 358 Why won't it freeze? 359 OK, we'll just sip it through a straw 359 OK, we'll just sip it through a straw 360 Time for a favor 360 Time for a favor
361 Training for the Olympics 361 Training for the Olympics 362 Plenty of spit 362 Plenty of spit 363 Monday Morning 363 Monday Morning 364 An Ice Cream Parlor Chair 364 An Ice Cream Parlor Chair
365 NOW it's ice cream 365 NOW it's ice cream 366 Beyond Green Thumb to Green Arm 366 Beyond Green Thumb to Green Arm 367 Father and Son Clematis Blooms 367 Father and Son Clematis Blooms 368 Jack still searching 368 Jack still searching
369 Do you see what I see? 369 Do you see what I see? 370 Splash fish splash 370 Splash fish splash 371 Turtle splatter on gold 371 Turtle splatter on gold 372 A pool of diversity 372 A pool of diversity
373 Fish with the golden smile 373 Fish with the golden smile 374 This is entertainment 374 This is entertainment 375 March of the Penguins 375 March of the Penguins 376 Summertime and the livin is easy 376 Summertime and the livin is easy
377 Fish are jumping 377 Fish are jumping 378 And the choleas are high 378 And the choleas are high 379 Where should I go next? 379 Where should I go next? 380 When you've got a goal 380 When you've got a goal
381 Here I come 381 Here I come 382 No cans to kick 382 No cans to kick 383 It's Second Sunday again 383 It's Second Sunday again 384 Family recipes for a family day 384 Family recipes for a family day
385 Talking football 385 Talking football 386 The swing is not in the shade 386 The swing is not in the shade 387 Our fishies live! 387 Our fishies live! 388 How teenagers smile 388 How teenagers smile
389 Butt burner 389 Butt burner 390 A sugar high 390 A sugar high 391 Bye Scott and Sam and Alec 391 Bye Scott and Sam and Alec 392 Bye Baldheaded Baby 392 Bye Baldheaded Baby
393 Cat Feeding Time 393 Cat Feeding Time 394 The karma of the litterbox 394 The karma of the litterbox 395 The evening calm 395 The evening calm
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