Life Is Sweet

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This old gal…

Loved going to the State Fair…the Iowa State Fair…apparently it’s supposed to be a big deal...Ok…actually…State Fair going me didn’t really love the fair…it was always hot…and tiring…but she loved going…because those daughters of hers…loved going…

Watching their wonder…and excitement…butter cow…baby pigs…big yellow slide…the varied industries building…giant pumpkins…ISU tattoos…then there’s the food…no complaints there…hot beef sundae…bucket of cookies…cheese curds…strawberry smoothie…salt water taffy…where you can pick your flavor…as many pieces of one flavor as you like…taffy lover me…was in Heaven…peppermint…the bomb diggity…

No more fair…taffy lover me…could only buy taffy in assorted flavors…repulsed by the banana…tolerated the grape…chocolate…watermelon…and Neapolitan…savored the vanilla and cinnamon…and just may have…picked out and sequestered…the coveted…peppermint…morsel…for someone’s secret consumption…

Not proud of it…but desperate times…call for desperate measures…but no more…for what to my wondering eyes should appear…on the candy wall at the best convenience store ever…a peppermint confection hoarder’s dream…let’s just say…that beaver friend of mine…may just have catapulted himself…into BFF status…
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And that husband of mine…agrees…