a long time ago...cake and bay leaf, plums

We were the only kids around there that had a Christmas tree. Mom had placed it out on the patio, which might seem strange, but wow, was it hot!!!
Nobody had airconditioning then, and anyway we had power shortages all the time. I did homework at night by kerosene lamp light.
We had a kiddie pool in the garden. To cool off, everybody would get in, one by one.

Mom was no cook, but one day decided to make angel food cake. It was absolutely delicious but flat as a pancake. She'd used yolks instead of whites!
I was only in third grade, but remember alot from then.
We used to smuggle our dog, Pancho, into our bedroom. But we left the two turtles in the yard. They weren't so snuggly. I now sleep with both my girls (cocker spaniels) and nobody comes around to expel them. RIP Mom, you hated dogs in the house, but your cake was GOOD.

We had a couple of masons doing something around the house, who used to cook their lunch in our yard. We had a bay tree and they'd pull off a leaf or two to put in their stew; that is, when they weren't cooking a parrillada.

Fruit tasted good then. N came to visit and bought a crate of plums. He and I ate them all and after that spent quite some time in the bathroom.

I buy the beautiful plums now hoping they taste the same. But now all fruit is tasteless, except for what is grown locally.