09-10-2020, a Thursday, was both rainy and cloudy.
Shopping is always done on Thursday. I picked up my daughter’s friend, a young girl, to shopping together.
Today, we saw lots of big pumpkins for sale outside the supermarket. When we passed the pumpkins, the young girl said sadly: “I don’t want to see big pumpkins for harvest, I want the summer to stay a little longer.”
Her expression held a familiar subtle feeling which brought me a pure joy on a cloudy rainy morning.
While shopping in the store, I overheard an advertisement: “We sell warm apple cider donuts just out of the oven, an East Coast autumn festival food. The apple cider donuts you eat at the farm during apple picking actually come from here. So hurry and buy your apple cider donuts here! ”
I immediately wanted to buy it, but I could not find it at the bakery section, Because the young girl had class in the morning, we had to leave soon and I could not spend any more time looking for the donuts.
In the afternoon, right after my daughter finished her classes, I asked her: “What is an apple cider donut?” Because the apple cider donut which I had heard in the morning was still in my mind.
My daughter replied: “It is a very sweet donut.”
“I heard ‘warm apple cider donuts just out of oven’ in the store this morning, but I could not find them.”
“Oh, you should try some, it is a very East Coast food. How about we go to the store to get it now?”
We went to the store in the rain. After entering the store, we immediately went the bakery section where donuts are normally stocked. We saw various donuts, but no apple cider donuts.
I asked a store assistant: “Do you still have apple cider donuts?”
The store assistant replied: “Yes, we have them. The donuts are in white paper bags and stocked on the same shelf where the roasted chickens are.”
Following these instructions, I quickly found the warm apple cider donuts which were sold 4 in one bag.
I tried it right after we came back home. The apple cider donut is very sweet with a strong cinnamon flavor.
After crepes, apple cider donut is another sweet introduced to me by my daughter. Now, whenever I think about apple cider donut, I will remember stories about my daughter studied in the East Coast.
Little Episodes
1. 09-10-2020
2. 9-30-2021， Thursday，Cloudy
Today is Thursday which is our weekly grocery shopping day. My daughter brought home a bag of four apple cider doughnuts. As the apple cider donuts were very sweet, I took only half a donut. While sitting in the dinning room eating the apple cider donut, I looked at the porcelain and flowers on the table, thought about the good year I had had in the past, so I couldn’t help taking some photos.
“That there would always be flowers in the vase” was my childhood dream. Maybe I should start to record the days I have “flowers in the vase”, to more frequently feel the joy of fulfilling my childhood dream . What I didn’t dream of when I was a child: going to the West Coast and East Coast of the United States. Now I am very happy for having a few more good friends on East Coast.
Family and friendship are guiding stars for a healthy and happy aging journey. May the stars shine on for the rest of my life.
Thank you for sharing your stories. I enjoyed reading about your experiences, thoughts and observations.
If I had the experience you describe, I could not resist asking why these special donuts were hidden away next to the roasted chickens, rather than being displayed next to the other baked goods. Anomalies like this always make me curious.