One thing I remember consuming as a child was cornbread in i

One thing I remember consuming as a child was cornbread in iced tea with lots of sugar.

My grandfather Jim Golden was famous for saying, ‘Use less sugar and stir like hell!’ I recall Linda’s uncle Gus Thomas having visited once and having cornbread and buttermilk. Yaaarrrggghhh! He also mistook dog food in the ‘fridge for corned beef - oops! We were not wealthy and almost never ate out. We at a lot of rice and beans, which I love to this day. Another famous weekend trip was to go to either Bolivar or to extend the trip across the ferry to Galveston. The ferries were free then as they are now, but the new ones are much bigger and faster. If we went to Bolivar we would stay with friends in a beach cabin. These beach cabins were a far cry from today’s insulated, air conditioned, multiroom, carpeted Taj Mahal’s. Then they were one large room on stilts, with a kitchen area and closed off bathroom and lots of cots and day beds lining the walls. The windows were covered with shutters and screens. We pulled up the shutters and prayed for a cooling breeze.