Cantaloupe Memories

The thing that I love about memories is that it can take so little to take you back to a time in your life that feels like it was just yesterday! I was just in my kitchen, cutting up a cantaloupe. As I was cutting, I was reminded of my grandfather, "Tata"- it took me back to this little coffee shop (a real coffee shop...not Starbucks!) that he would take Cindy & I to and we would always get cataloupe alamode. We would each get 1/2 of the cantaloupe with a huge scoop of vanilla ice cream on top! It doesn't sound like anything that I would eat now but we loved it back then! Tata would also give us each a dollar and let us go wild in "Pic N Save"- it was always such a treat! It also got me to thinking about the A&W Rootbeer that we would go to. Now, those were truly the good ol' days! Yum!

As I was writing this, Lisa called me. It was so funny because she remembers going with us to that coffee shop! She didn't remember the cantaloupe alamode but she remembers the coffee shop! I know she remembers eating chili beans and drinking Hi-C orange as we swam for hours in Nana & Tata's pool! Lisa & I were laughing because she asked me if I saw the new Marie Calenders Lemon pie. (I love lemon anything!) Somehow we got to talking about the $5.99 pie month and she proceeded to tell me that they do this special 2 times a year- February & October. I was laughing and said, "It's kind of funny how you know what two months Marie Calender's does it's pie sale...do you know which months daylight savings time are?" We decided that Feb & Oct are close to when daylight savings time is...so we are covered!

Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Willa Cather