It’s 90 out in April

I have been resisting the 3 ice cream stands I pass almost every day… for several weeks now.  Tonight I finally gave in.  My local ice cream stand is Kimball’s Farm, an outpost of the big Kimball’s Farm the next town over. The local high school kids are the staff and even at 8:30 on a weeknight there was a kids soccer team there.  Being a born and bred New Englander, I always had a neighborhood ice cream stand nearby.  In my current location I have as I said three of them, actually 4 of them in really close proximity but I don’t usually go in the direction of the 4th one.  The Ice cream is good, it isn’t gourmet, I make better ice cream at home for the most part, but it is a whole experience that I can’t resist.  I had a kiddie cone- this is because like most things ice cream servings have been super sized.  The kiddie cone is easily a half pint of ice cream, I am astounded when I see people order large cones.  The only thing that really is annoyingly different from my childhood is that the damn cones are paper wrapped- I guess they are sterile, but the paper also never comes off all the way and you have to give up part of your cone to it.