I say yes, you say no, OR People are Strange

Gin bubbles?  I'm listening...

Oh, Blue - I really have stopped going to "those" theads - it is JUST TO STIR UP TROUBLE.  Plz don't let it flutter you - specially with a headache.. my adivice: Sic Virgil on'em

 Giffords - oh those days.  I'd just come back from London, where "real" ice cream was just appearing.  HOW can a society which created Clotted Cream, oh, my, drooling beginning, use LARD in the ice cream.  Anyhow - Giffords - ah, yes, many, many a visit.  Seems  Ye Olde Bode could handle a lot more pre chemotherapy, and Arimidex.  Now if I think of ice cream, really, I gain weight.

Ok.  I'm a slouch too.

Hi Blue, concurr as to hate.  Would add intolarance to the list.  Hate and intolarance combined lead to nothing but pain and sorry.  As anyone in Norway will tell you.   I am combating both my liberal application of the ignore button.

Now about those gin bubbles  Last week when we took monsters to camp we ended up doing a visit to a distillery where we tried some different versions of gin.  Back in the days when I was riffling though the seat cushions for gas change, I was NOT a gin fan---thought it tasted like chewing a tree branch.  So I never touched the stuff.  But hey, its a new world and it seems there are more flavors of gin than I never knew.  We were tasting small batch stuff that, well dare I say it, it was YUMMY! In fact it was sooo very tasty I thought that the addition of tonic would diminish the gin.  And yet, a full glass of icy cold gin to sip on is probably NOT the best idea, at least not if you actually intend to cook dinner.

VOILA!!! the birth of the gin bubbles!!!

Shot or shot and a half of good small batch, or craft, gin (we are not talking tangeray or even bombay here.  More like 12 Bridges (Portland), Dry Fly (Spokane), etc-)--in a glass with ice.  Top with sparkling water.  enjoy!

Ang, I remember Farrells!  And Swensen's!  Wow, there were a lot of ice cream shops then ... now there seems to only be Baskin Robbins.  Not that I object to ice cream in any form, but ... the older ones were better.  And I miss Frozen Dairy Bar terribly.  I know that there is a storefont with the name and the old machines in that shopping center on 50 by Annandale Road, but ... it's not that old ratty stucco building that you walked up to and then sat in (or on) your car in the gravel parking lot to eat your ice cream.  A couple years before it closed, some guy who was a lawyer as his day job used to come and DJ oldies in the parking lot.  What fun!

So, so happy to know you had a good day yesterday, Blue!

I just picked another quart of raspberries  (this has been an exceptional year for my favourite fruit) and will have some later tonight over a wee scoop of French Vanilla ice cream.  And, I want you to know that each raspberry I picked actually went into the basket, and did not sidetracked... Gold star for me!!!

Didn't anybody go to Carvels?  And have a HUGE vanilla dipped in chocolate, which got crispy as soon as it cooled...oh, my.....  

ALSO Steve's in Cambridge, MA - with MIX IN's - my first experience "painting" with M&M's in vanilla ice  ream, with jimmies on top of course...drool...slurp,,,. more drooling...SO unladylike

I'm not really a sweets person, but I do enjoy a DQ soft serve cone now and again.

I'm a sucker for Tim's Cascade potato chips. I'm a salty, greasy type of girl.

Mary 

Athena, yes, BUT, Hagan Daaz Rum Raisin???  in olden days in New York City, we used to go late Saturday night to get the Sunday New York Times, and "needed" to have HD Rum Raisin to go with it. Needed It.

Potato chips - Trader Joes Kettle ones....they are not allowd in my little cabin cuz they are so untamed they jump into my mouth and the whole ( yes, the WHOLE)bag disappears..just goes away, someplace...

E

Yes, having a banana and being able to MAKE it...it's now on my list ;-)

eta - bananas seem to get 'wonky' ripen in my freezer, maybe it isn't cold enuf? very old..

Ben and Jerry were in my sister's class at UVM.  When I went several years later, their first store had just opened in an old gas station in Burlington.  It was amazing!

No Ben & Jerry's here except at Walmart, so my grandson and I go to Coldstone.  Might have to try the chocolate dipped bananas myself. Sounds yummy.

I haven't had frozen red grapes in ages!  They're like little frozen popsicles.  Yumm!

Big storm is moving in here, the sky is going dark and the wind is coming up.  Yahoo .. we need the rain!  Is it raining in VA north of me? Happy, Ang, Enjoyful?

Bren

we are having the most wonderful heavy, heavy cooling RAIN - light sky, so I guess the thunder boomers are later in the day - but OH, the smell of rain, just lovely....