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Cream of The Crop
Cream of The Crop Sure, we all have heard the saying, "Cream of The Crop." What do we mean? Is it because cream rises to the top of whole milk when the milk is allowed to stand undisturbed. Growing up on a farm, milk was very important to us. Milk was served at every meal and even with snacks. Across Rd 50 on the other side from us was a 2000 acres plus diary farm. We had cows but because cows only have milk available when they have produced calves, we often went to the big dairy farm for additional milk. Our family was so trusted that we were allowed to go and get the milk in the milk shed any time we needed milk. About once a week and sometimes twice a week a big silver "Borden" truck could be heard crossing the cattle crossing, headed to the milk shed. Milk was not keep in the huge stainless steel vats as it is today but in those funny looking milk containers with handles and a lid. The milk in a container was so heavy that it usually took my father and me to move them about. When you took the milk container's lid off, there it was cream, almost golden in its color from the butter fat. We had to use a big ladle to dip down past the cream to get to the milk. Still a lot of cream would be taken away with the milk. There always so much cream in the milk we took home that we used it to make whipping cream for the strawberries we grew and butter for my mother's special batch biscuits. A biscuit with a hole bored into it with your finger, a large chuck of rich golden butter with orange blossom honey; what a treat; what a dessert. Still to this day I enjoy a good biscuit, butter and honey. But, the biscuit is store bought, the butter is almost white, and the honey even though orange blossom, it is not as rich. Gone are the days where cream rises to the top. Now every thing is mediocre. Plain and Simple. I can remember a child (that's what they were known as back then) could tell you the name of the different flowers, trees and soils. The children were required to learn all 48 states (that's all we had then), the capitals, state flower, and state bird. Then there was a promise, life would be better and so it was. What is the promise now. Change. Change to what? Look. I liked it when we walked a mile and half to go play with a neighbor. I liked it when I could stick out my tumb and the first old rusty Ford truck would stop, a voice inside the dark cab of the truck would say, "Where you going, son?" "Hop in, it's on my way." Even when it was not on their way, the driver would drop you off at the neighbor's house or the general store. As the kind person was driving away, you would hear, "I will be headed back this way in an hour if you want a ride home." "Yes, sir." "Thank you, sir." People were people not dollar bills.
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