“One of the most important days of my life, was when I learned to ride a bicycle.”
Today is perfect for the ten year old me. It is cloudy, but warm, sweatshirt or jacket warm. I’d spend the morning munching on my cereal in front of the TV watching the usual Saturday fare. Around noon, I’d haul my bike out of the cellar and hit the road. I’d never have a destination. I just wanted to ride. Sometimes I’d go to the square and look in the store windows. The square was filled with wonderful stores like Woolworth’s, Grants and Kennedy’s biscuits. That store had barrels in front with different cheeses and crackers for sale. I remember a huge circle of cheese. I didn’t know at the time it was cheddar. The only cheese I knew was orange and it came individually wrapped. The square was always busy on Saturday so I’d walk my bike on the sidewalk. Just out of the square was a pet store. I’d always look in there. Once I even bought a chameleon. By late afternoon I’d be hungry and tired so I’d head on home for a bologna sandwich with yellow mustard on squishy white bread.
Peapod came last night. I bought beef bologna but no squishy bread. I also bought Vermont cheddar cheese. My tastes have somewhat matured over time.
On the only cruise I have ever taken, the one through the Panama Canal, one movie night they showed Titanic. I thought that an odd choice for a movie on a boat.
I am going to watch a Grapefruit League spring training baseball game: a Red Sox-Yankees game. I know spring training games don’t mean much, but I’m hungry for baseball, and I can’t wait until opening day on March 29th. As if I needed it, this game will whet my appetite even more for spring and baseball.
Today I’m going to finish the book I’m reading and maybe later I’ll go out and hit a few shops. I’ll have no destination in mind. I’m hoping for serendipity.
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February 23, 2019 at 1:25 pm
I’m waiting on the “Bomb Cyclone”. Supposed to be descending on southeastern Michigan tomorrow and delivering mayhem, power outages, super duper high winds and all sorts of fun.
I have drifted. It’s one of those days, all sorts of intend to complete the trivial to the soundtrack of my football team and Bob Dylan. Mrs MDH has announced we are going to game night at a neighbor’s house. It sounds very KTCC for a Saturday night
February 23, 2019 at 1:52 pm
My Dear Hedley,
The weather has been appalling with rain and winds, but the snow has passed us by. Boston has had only 10 inches of it all winter so way below normal. Even Washington DC has had more.
I don’t know when your storm will finish there and move here. I just turned on the Weather Channel and the south is getting hit with tornados and rain, but we’ll just have clouds and cold for the next few days.
Game night does sound very KTCC. My game night is tomorrow, and I’m to do desserts.
Have fun!!
February 23, 2019 at 1:43 pm
Yes it is an odd film to show on a boat 🙂 🙂 🙂
Cloudy and muddy most of the day here but enough warm to melt away lots of the snow, a bit nasty wind though and hard to avoid anywhere, even in the forest.
I actually knew about lots of different kinds of cheese when I was a kid, an advantage of having a mother working in a grocery store buying cheese cheaper when it was a bit too old to sell. We loved cheese so it never lasted long enough to go bad in our home 🙂 🙂 I still often buy older cheese because cheese never get bad by age, just better 🙂
The Eurovision song contest (the Swedish parts) is on tonight and I’ll watch for a while but it has been so bad this year that I doubt it will be worth watching tonight.
Have a great day!
Christer.
February 23, 2019 at 1:56 pm
Christer,
That they showed Titanic gave me a chuckle.
We still have a few minutes places where the snow lingers. That it turned to ice the night it fell is why.
I love all sorts of cheese now. When I was in Ghana, I craved cheese as there was none to be had. Seldom does a day go by that I don’t enjoy cheese. My mother never ventured beyond Swiss or cheddar.
It seems Sweden hasn’t done well the last few years of the Eurovision contest. Didn’t it win a few years back?
Have a great evening!
February 23, 2019 at 2:26 pm
To be honest, we’ve Come in fifth place for the last three years but we always expect to win 🙂 anything else is a failiure 😄
February 23, 2019 at 6:03 pm
We don’t have anything like that here. I guess we would all expect to win!!
February 23, 2019 at 5:05 pm
Hi Kat,
When I was a kid my bike was my first taste of freedom. Saturday mornings were a combination of sugary dry cereal, kids shows and then the bike ride to explore the more hidden parts of town. There was always a stop at the local store that had rgosecbigbjersvof candy on the counter.
Today cleared up by morning with a high in the low seventies. A beautiful day.
February 23, 2019 at 5:59 pm
HI Bob,
Okay, I’m stumped. What kind of candy is rgosecbigbjersv? Rose big jersey?
I would buy penny candy back then. It always seemed as if I could get more for my money. If I were lucky, I might have a nickel with me on my adventures. That always seemed like wealth to me.
It stayed cloudy and is now cold.
February 23, 2019 at 6:53 pm
Ops, I failed to proofread my post. Whatever I typed it stands for chocolate. 😦
February 23, 2019 at 7:12 pm
I’m laughing! That’s too funny!!
I’ll remember that!
February 24, 2019 at 12:14 pm
Hi Kat,
I remember the day I transitioned from training wheels to full two wheeled proficiency. I was 5 years old. My friend Jackie was trying to convince me that I had to ride away from the curb but I didn’t believe him. He suggested a break for some Dentyne gum. After that, I gave it another try and pedaled away from the curb and on to 2 wheeled freedom. No looking back.
We had a Kennedy’s Butter and Egg store, too. It always smelled like cheese but I don’t remember seeing the actual cheeses. My mother always bought peanut butter there because they would grind the peanuts to order.
There’s plenty of snow hanging around up here. It’s being rained on heavily at the moment so maybe most of it will disappear.
Enjoy the day.
February 25, 2019 at 12:50 am
Hi Caryn,
My bike only had two wheels. None of us had training wheels. I didn’t think they were around when we were kids. It was the Dentyne gum which gave you the strength and courage to leave the curb. My mother held the back of my bike as I pedaled. She let go when she thought I could balance the bike. She was right.
I don’t know if my mother ever bought anything at the Kennedy’s store. I love looking in the window of that store. After Kennedy’s closed, the next store was The Children’s Corner which sold really nice clothing, stuffed ani all and that’s where I bought my 49 cent Whitman books. It was a few things after that, but I don’t remember what they were. It is now an Indian restaurant.
Hardly any snow left here after the warm days and all the rain.
Have a great day!