Last night My Reason for Living, our daughter - She Upon Whom Sun and Moon Rise and Set, - and our little neighbor, Pablo, went to drive through the Roper Moutain Lights and walk through "Winter Wonderland" while there.
There is a guy there each year who does balloon figures. He is Michaelangelo with those things.
We got in line, but SUWSAMRAS and Pablo just wanted to act out "Chipwrecked." the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie we had seen a few hours earlier.
We got in line, but SUWSAMRAS and Pablo just wanted to act out "Chipwrecked." the Alvin and the Chipmunks movie we had seen a few hours earlier.
MRFL suggested getting them suckers from "The Lollipop Lady" whose stand was just inside the building where the balloon guy was.
I thought this was just an interesting project for her. Turns out the Lollipop Lady is a fourth generation candymaker whose nom de guerre is Heather Norton - wife of a Clemson prof, mom to two boys, and lollipop maven par excellence!
All kinds of shapes, regular flavors, and diabetic-friendly.
I thought about suggesting Guinness Extra Stout as a St. Pat's offering, but decided against it.
Heather ships all over the country, and it is easy to see why. I got a watermellon happy face. (You know, a Guinness Extra Stout happy face would be great.)
The lollipop is fab, and does not lick quickly. I was tempted to chomp it, but thought better of it.
These lollipops are art, and to eat them rather than lick them would be as pedestrian as treating pheasant under glass as finger food.
Check out Heather's facebook page shown below. If you love a great lollipop, and believe in a nation of small shopkeepers, as my fellow Virginian, Thomas Jefferson and I do, you can't go wrong with Heather's product.
facebook.com/thelollipoplady
