He answers: - At my grandmother's house we would get together those who lived nearby, everyone would bring whatever they had in their homes, it could be rice pudding, dulce de lechosa, cuajado, carato de maíz and other things. Some would go back home at dusk, returning the next day. Others stayed in their chinchorros to continue talking at night.

They would make zarandas to play. This game was a candy game or it depended on the people who attended and what they brought to give to the winner.
Those who brought candy were the ones who had more money and the one who won the prize for his mouth would go, we did not have to buy candy, he tells me.
And so the conversation continues, we get to our experience and I tell him: now this week's vacation is planned on the beach, river or countryside according to the ways of each one. In our case, my father did not like to move around during these days, so our childhood was spent at home as usual; although food and drinks according to the season...we could not miss the fish "cazón" to make the popular "cuajado". Nowadays we make cuajado with canned tuna, canned sardines, well that is my case.
In those times of my childhood you were in charge of making the zarandas for us to know how they played in your times, how to throw it and how to win.

He answers me: "Yes, I always had candy to give to those who won, you always saw and knew the traditions that I was taught. Your dad didn't like to go out on those days. He also had respect for the idea of going out on the roads on saints' days.
I like my mother to talk about these experiences, I see her happy remembering those days and she emphasizes what her grandmother taught them at that time. She also feels that she is taken very seriously listening to her. There while she was cooling off after her morning sun bath I felt her satisfied with the time we shared, she was talking and remembering and I was listening to her and then telling her: - how things have changed, haven't they?
My mother is 88 years old, a very good memory...that's why I say Thank You, Thank You, Thank You to all those moments I am living with her. My mother is very beautiful, every time I take her plate when she finishes eating, she thanks me for the food I prepare for her. That's how beautiful my mother is.
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