Cinnamon Toast

It's funny, October had so much happening that I've been procrastinating on writing something. I'm going to have to do a series of recaps. But tonight I decided to log on to say that I made cinnamon toast.

I left work and discovered that it was cold outside! It's supposed to get down to 30 degrees tonight. So I came home and bundled up to take Solomon out for his walk. Solomon doesn't feel the cold. Anyway I got to thinking about the differences in cold weather. Does anyone else think that there is a difference between November/December cold weather and January/February cold weather?

November/December cold weather is brisk and refreshing. Time for a cup of hot tea and snuggling by the fire listening to some nice music. You check the thermometer to see if it's cold enough for a flurry or two. Got the picture? Then precisely on New Year's Day it becomes "damn cold outside!" It's not that the temperature is any colder it just seems that way. Where as before you would hold your head into that bracing wind and smell the dead leaves and maybe a hint of snow, you now bury your head deep into your parka as that damn wind bites you down to the bone. But the temperature isn't any different. It's just the feeling.

Anyway, tonight while I was walking Solomon I held my head high and breathed deeply the cold air. When I came back inside, I took off my coat and headed for the kitchen. It was time for an old back home favorite - cinnamon toast. I put the tea kettle on as I took out the bread and butter, the cinnamon and some sugar. I mixed the sugar and cinnamon just right, buttered the bread and broke out the cinnamon toast pan. Now this was no regular pan. This was my pan. I had been making cinnamon toast on this pan since before my voice changed. Growing up back in Bounding Bend had many a cold morning in our big, old country kitchen. And the only thing I really ever cooked was cinnamon toast. When our mother died, this pan was a treasure for me to take back to my home. And here, over two years later, I was making cinnamon toast.

It's just like I remembered...