SPT - ice cream

Lelly's summer feng shui challenge ......"to help channel our personal chi, let's take time this month to focus on the 5 elements of summer: sun, water, shade, grass and ice cream!! "

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{with Carly and a friend after a Friday twilight swim. We topped the evening off with a stop at Buster's for an ice cream cone. Carly got chocolate chip cookie dough, her friend's choice was butter pecan, and mine - key lime pie.....YUM!}

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edited additions...after I wrote this post REALLY early this morning, I thought about ice cream a lot today. What I really started thinking about was fun ice cream stories from my life and wishing I had pictures to go along with them. Warning!! this gets a little long winded.

.....Can we stop yet? When I was growing up, we made homemade ice cream at my Big Daddy and Finn's house. The Ice Cream maker sat in the kitchen sink and we all took turns cranking it. The youngest took their turns first when it was the easiest to crank. It seemed to take forever to thicken, but BOY did it taste good when it did.

.....After swimming every afternoon in the summer, we would stop at the country store and get ice cream (I'm sure not everyday, but frequently enough that I remember doing it). There were orange sherbet pushups, drumsticks, and ice cream sandwiches. And on the way out the door we would tell the person working to "charge it to my Daddy".

.....When I was in college, I had a car wreck. (no need to discuss that I hit a parked car on the way to the library, no not a bar but the real library) Kenny and I had just met and being the sweet guy he was/is stopped by my apartment to check on me shortly after and brought a box of ice cream sandwiches. Right after that my mom and dad showed up, and my dad escorted Kenny to the door with "you can go now". Welcome to the family, sweetie. What a night!

.....When I was a few months pregnant, I went with my mom, sister and aunt on a girls' trip. One morning, we went to the outlet mall for some shopping. It was hot, I was very pregnant, and I was not really interested in shopping . They found me shortly after we arrived sitting on a bench eating ice cream. I still hear about that one.

.....Two trips to Italy....lots and lots of gellato in some amazing places!

......Moving to a small town that has "The Dip" (it's name was changed a few years ago but all those in the know still call it "The Dip") a local hamburger, ice cream drive thru that makes me think about the good old days at home when you got soft serve ice cream at "The Dairy Bar" (it's name was changed many years ago but all those in the know still call it "The Dairy Bar").

.....Last year, my mom, sister, Carly and I got out for a day of shopping on the day after Thanksgiving. By mid afternoon, we had done a lot of shopping. Carly pipes up from the back seat to inform us that she is feeling "grump-i-dy". There was some discussion about what would cure the "grump-i-diness" and ice cream was the winner. We pulled through the Buster's drive thru and she chose "Cotton Candy Explosion". It worked.