“There’s nothing a cupcake and coffee can’t solve.”
The morning is hot, almost as hot as the day will be, at 79˚. My house is so cool and comfortable I hate going out at all, but I do have a couple of things on my errand list. I’ll wait until the afternoon if even then.
The dogs drive me crazy. They chase each other up and down the hall and jump on the couch for the turnaround, the same couch where I’m sitting. I get bounced around and whacked by Henry on his u-turn. The floor between the den and the kitchen is again filled with dust balls because of the dogs. I vacuum it just about every day.
Nala brings sticks into the house. I was alerted to this when she had too wide a branch to take through the dog door. It made a lot of noise. She figured it out and brought the branch in sideways. I watched her then threw the branch back outside. I’m tired of vacuuming chunks of bark and pieces of white branch. Nala always chews her sticks on a rug. How neat.
When I was growing up, my town was the world to me. We never went far for family vacations. If anywhere, it was north to Maine for a weekend, and I remember one week we spent in Vermont when I was young, maybe around 8. I didn’t mind staying home in the summer. My friends too stayed home, but I didn’t see them much once school was over. My wanderings were usually when I was alone. I liked to stop and sit for a bit. I’d drink water at one of the bubblers, often the one in the park. Sometimes I had a nickel or a dime for expenses on the road. The nickel meant candy and the dime meant Hostess. I never bought any particular Hostess. That depended on my mood, but I was partial to Hostess cupcakes, It was the cream middle I loved. It was also the chocolate. Sometimes I’d buy a Sno-Ball. It had everything: a cream middle, giant coconut frosting topper and chocolate. I don’t remember the last Hostess anything I bought. I did buy a cupcake at the bakery which they labeled as a Hostess cupcake. It even had the white squiggle across the frosting on the top, but it wasn’t Hostess.
I have always wondered about the frosting on Hostess cupcakes. We used to have to lick the frosting off cupcakes my mother made but never Hostess cupcakes. The frosting came off in one piece. That last part of the cupcakes, the frosting, was the best part so I’d take the frosting off and put it aside then I’d eat the cake. The frosting was the last treasure from a Hostess cupcake.
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July 17, 2021 at 4:54 pm
Hi Kat,
Tomorrow the temperature will probably get up to a normal 97° But today it’s still in the low 90s. My daughter and I drove around and watched the train depart from the Grapevine station. It’s the excursion train from the Grapevine Vintage Railroad.
https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com/grapevine-vintage-railroad/
As soon as my spouse declares the pandemic over, I plan on taking my wife and daughter on the vintage train to the Ft. Worth stockyards for a weekend afternoon. Hopefully, it will be in 2021 or 2022. 🙂
That old diesel locomotive brings back memories of my own electric train set as a kid. Back then I had the Lionel steam locomotive. You inserted small white pills into the smoke stack to make puffs of white smoke as the train ran around on the tracks. The coal tender contained the steam whistle which you blew from the transformer. Kids today would be considered having ‘cooties’ if they had a train layout in their room. It’s robably isn’t cool today. 🙂 That’s if any kid today would even know what ‘cooties’ were.
To this day I love Hostess chocolate cup cakes, Twinkies and Sno-balls. When the Continental Bakery went out of business a couple of years ago I almost cried over the demise of those treats. Thankfully, someone bought the recipe and continues baking them today. If I were on death row, my last meal would conclude with a couple of Hostess chocolate cupcakes. Unfortunately, here in Texas, they stopped giving the condemned prisoner a choice of last meal items. Too bad we even still have Capital Punishment. 😦
July 17, 2021 at 10:10 pm
Hi Bob,
I love trains and would definitely take that one. We have a similar train here which goes from Hyannis to the railway bridge which spans the canal. I used to take friends who visited me on it for a ride. What was funny was it used to pass the Barnstable House of Correction on the backside (It has since moved). Inmates used to moon the train from their windows. It was funny.
The way things are going I suspect it will be a long while before your train ride.
I had a set of trains, HO scale. I even constructed buildings for my layout. When I first moved here, I had it in the guest room all set up. It has been put away for a while. I did love that train set.
I think trains must still be cool as my niece’s boys love their trains. They take real steam locomotives for family excursions even to one at Christmas time.
After writing this, I ordered stuff from Walgreens, mostly band-aids and tape to keep changing my wounds, but I also ordered a package of Hostess cupcakes..