Way, way back in the 20th century when I was but a wee lad in the old country…uh…I mean a young dude in the south…one of my favorite things in the summer was watching the ice cream magic happen.

Maybe you remember something like that, too, if you’re old enough to remember the 20th century. If so, you’d know when I say ice cream magic, I mean making homemade ice cream in a wooden (sometimes plastic) ice cream maker. Back then moms would whisk up some sweet ingredients and give it to the dads to put in a metal container. The dads would lower the metal container down into the wooden bucket, lock it in place, and start rotating a metal crank.

Wow…that really sounds ancient, doesn’t it? But the magic happened when the crank became harder and harder to turn. When it really wouldn’t turn much at all anymore, the dads (and sometimes us kids) would stop and the container would be removed. We could hardly wait for the lid to be popped off and a big dollop of ice cream to land in our bowls. Yuh-um!

This Memorial Day weekend I’m sure there are some similar family experiences going on all around America. So, I sat down and thought about a kid’s perspective on ice cream and all the goodies that go with it. I came up with…

Ice Cream Magic

In the back of the freezer in mom’s refrigerator
Is a tub of vanilla, and we’re gonna eat it later.
It’s ice cream magic and your spoon becomes a wand
With some sweet imagination and a black cape donned.

Conjure up an ocean of chocolate and strawberries
With marshmallow icebergs inhabited by fairies
We see popsicle breezes and the rainbow twinkles
And there’s Ol’ Man Winter blowin’ cinnamon sprinkles.

Look, some rootbeer raindrops and a candy cane straw.
No one’s ever gonna think we really saw what we saw.
But we’ll forgive their kidding, and our feelings won’t get hurt
‘Cause it was ice cream magic, a very dreamy dessert.

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