Square Wheels

It is becoming more and more difficult every year to build Life Saver trains.

About three years ago, I couldn't find more than one flavor of Life Savers. Or, well, the multi-flavor rolls of candy with a hole in the middle. In 2018, I ordered cases of (fresh) individual flavors still available. (Yes, it seems you certainly can buy some of the old-fashioned flavors that have been kept in hiding for at least three or four decades, but oh, my goodness! I want the recipients to be able to eat the trains! Not be forced to use them as well-preserved paper weights!!!)


I still had plenty of the mail-order rolls when I started a new railway line last December. Yes, they could be borderline old. But I did check the expiration dates before I set to gluing.


Last year, I couldn't find round-wrapped mint patties or even round-wrapped peppermints to use as wheels. My trains last year rolled to their recipients with square wheels.


My smart phone stupidly died on Christmas Day, and I wasn't sure I'd downloaded the photos I'd taken of the most recent trains, which I'd built just the day before! Thank heavens, I did. So I have photos to illustrate today's post!

Bottom line is I'm going to have to discover different candy if I plan to continue building trains. Or find something different I can build with square wheels!

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