Happy Halloween to our cyberspace amigos from all of us at Casita de Cardinal – hope you have fun and high frivolity complete with walking dead figures as far as the eye can see…
I have never been a costume person, but I rarely meet a piece of chocolate candy I don’t like so Halloween isn’t a total washout for me.
Permit me to offer one memory of a Trick or Treat I went on with my friend Butch Foster when I was a little girl living in Richards, Texas. I must have been five or six years old, and Butch was a couple of years older. It wasn’t the candy I remember – no, not the candy. But I can still smell and taste the homemade popcorn balls made with fresh popcorn and Karo syrup that my grandmother gave us when we knocked on her door. My hands got so sticky when I ate the popcorn ball, but who cared. It was scrumptious. (I’m not sure Butch was as impressed as I was.)
And now, here’s a treat from Pretty that will surely send you racing to her antique booths in Little Mountain this week – check out the chair and bench!
Stay tuned.
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About Sheila Morris
Sheila Morris is a personal historian, essayist with humorist tendencies, lesbian activist, truth seeker and speaker in the tradition of other female Texas storytellers including her paternal grandmother.
In December, 2017, the University of South Carolina Press published her collection of first-person accounts of a few of the people primarily responsible for the development of LGBTQ organizations in South Carolina. Southern Perspectives on the Queer Movement: Committed to Home will resonate with everyone interested in LGBTQ history in the South during the tumultuous times from the AIDS pandemic to marriage equality.
She has published five nonfiction books including two memoirs, an essay compilation and two collections of her favorite blogs from I'll Call It Like I See It. Her first book, Deep in the Heart: A Memoir of Love and Longing received a Golden Crown Literary Society Award in 2008. Her writings have been included in various anthologies - most recently the 2017 Saints and Sinners Literary Magazine. Her latest book, Four Ticket Ride, was released in January, 2019.
She is a displaced Texan living in South Carolina with her wife Teresa Williams and their dogs Spike, Charly and Carl. She is also Naynay to her two granddaughters Ella and Molly James who light up her life for real. Born in rural Grimes County, Texas in 1946 her Texas roots still run wide and deep.
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Love the godess chairs but what caught my eye was the green leaf with the perching birds. I want!
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That plate is sweet! I’ll bet Pretty will ship it to you. 😉
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Thanks, Ann…we appreciate the help…if you don’t watch out, Pretty will make you her marketing manager…:)
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It too can be yours – ask Pretty about shipping!! 🙂
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Oh the bench and chair!! Why did I let myself be talked into a new saddle!! I want!! More than the sweet vintage wicker folding chair I almost bought today.
The popcorn balls from back in the day were heaven. Happy Halloween my friends! 🎃🎃
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When Frankie wants a new saddle, everything else is second chair!! 🙂
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I wish I lived closer, all of these pieces are amazing! I never got popcorn balls, I don’t think. I vaguely remember Rice Krispie treats.
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I wish you lived closer too plgcm!!
I LOVED Rice Krispie treats…still do.
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