Thursday, August 19, 2021

Becoming Queenie Jenkins!

Hey Gang!

Granny Queenie and her great granddaughter LaToya are having lunch in the park!

Queenie looks up at the sunshine thinks to herself "look at the day the lord has made!"

Just then a handsome young man walks by. Malik: Good afternoon Queen! How are you this fine day?

Queenie: Just fine young man and you?

Malik: I am well Queen! Enjoy the rest of the day and don't forget to hydrate!

Queen thinks to herself "If I were fifty years younger..."'

LaToya: Did you know him Granny?

Queenie: No honey, I don't know him.

LaToya: But he knows your name! He called you Queen!

Queenie: Oh honey, it just a term of endearment!

LaToya: A what?

Queenie: A nickname or a pet name! He probably calls all women or all women my age Queen.

LaToya: Oh! Well I have our lunch! That food cart is great!

The eat their meals.

Queenie: Well that hit the spot!

LaToya: I wonder if she has ice cream today!

LaToya: She makes the best ice cream! At least it is the best I have had!

Queenie: The best ice cream I have ever had was at this Church up the road for the town I grew up in! She smiles as she thinks about the ice cream.

LaToya: Really? Like... you have been around for a long time! It was the best in all your years?

Queenie: I'm 95 years young and it was the best I have had! Those old church sisters could cook! They churned the ice cream by hand in the kitchen of the church! Oh, and fried chicken!

LaToya: They didn't get if from the store?

Queenie: Honey, ice cream in the store ...ice in general is a modern thing! We had and ice box and not a refrigerator when I was a child. And we were considered well off! A man came and we bought a block of ice and put it in the ice box to keep things cold. Those church women used real cream from the top of the milk to make the ice cream.

LaToya: WOW!

Queenie: It tasted sooo much better than anything you can get from the store!

Queenie: You better catch her before she leaves!

Granny Queen!

I have had the idea for Granny Queen for a while. It is her job to keep the family together and grounded. She lives with her granddaughter and her great granddaughter! She also spends time with other granddaughters too. She augments her retirement by tutoring and hand-knitting sweaters that her granddaughter sells them online for her.

How she started! This was a thrift store doll that didn't sell! She has been sitting around for a few years!