Cate has done it again. The defending St. Thomas the Apostle jello creation champion pulled off the repeat.Last year, granted, the title was as much a result of Robert's charm as anything else. It was a wedding cake that fell apart and got rebranded as a volcano. This year, we made one entry, and made it work. You can see at left here, Robert defending the Colemans' jello entry from the grazers.
These are not Dots. These are jello dots -- several different colors of jello molded in tiny ice cube trays. In the end, a fairly simple result, but clever and time-consuming, including the precision with which the molds were poured.
Watching Cate pour a lot of work into this (and a lot of jello) this afternoon, and stress out over it, I was ecstatic to find out that "we" had won.
Wednesday night is church night for us, starting with Robert's children's choir practice at 5:30, followed by a community meal, a prayer service and religious ed classes. While the kids and Cate (who assists the kindergarten class) are in class, I'm in church choir rehearsal. When Cate and the kids came into the church to wait for us to finish, I motioned for Robert to come up and sit next to me so I could ask him who won.
It was a close vote, apparently. But not in my mind. Best dish, hands down.Cate also prepared her grandmother's seafoam salad, which is a green jello whipped with cream cheese and pears, layered. Surely not doing the concept justice. (And Cate wasn't blown away by the imprecision of the family recipe card handed down, either!)
The other part of jello night is playing Bingo, and the parish has these vintage cards from the 1950s. This year, Colleen put her reading skills to the test for a while, playing one card. For most of the two-digit numbers, one of us would have to translate, but she enjoyed it enough to keep playing for three or four rounds before losing interest.
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I'm pretty sure that we used those bingo cards at some point as well.
I'm sure you did. BTW, do you know the morning show song, "Lime Jello. Marshmallow, Cottage Cheese Delight?" I bet we have a copy of it.
The Bingo cards are very "vintage" and I love them. It kills me to hear a room full of people banging these cards on the table to clear the sliding windows, or to see kids with chocolate-covered fingers passing them around. Perhaps someone with uber-google skills could find out if the cards are worth anything. They're stamped with "US Patent Pending" and "Gellman Brothers, Minneapolis 1, Minneapolis." Maybe church record would indicate when they were purchased; does the church have an historian?
The parish does have an historian--by some reckoning it is Bob Schowb, by others it's Corly Swartout. Still another approach to the question yields Tom Sullivan. And we know all of them!!
Hey- that little cutie is wearing a J sweater! Nice! When spring comes around, she'll have her share of shirts from the House of J.
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