Grandma Kept Her Ice Cream in the Window
Adversity = Opportunity. Pffft! Really? I don't know if my grandmother would have used those words. She was though a very clever woman whose resourcefulness as a single mother provided for a big family during the great depression. She once told me the story of chasing down a rooster in the farm yard to catch and cook because two strangers walked in from the road who hadn't eaten for a few days. In her later years she lived in a small cottage in our home town. It was a very old building, poorly insulated and drafty in the winter. She was very proud of her quaint little place and took care in making it warm and inviting. Her unique style of decorating included painting over the old linoleum floor with a solid color and then painting a repeating pattern over it using a potato that she had cut into a star shape. Grandma loved having her grand kids stay over night. She delighted in serving us treats and one of he...