RE the phone: When we moved here, we decided not to have land line phone but I put up the one we had before to cover the phone jack. The cornbread mold is Wagner pat. July 6, 1920.
Here are my daughter-in-law and her niece making tamales. She had intentions of making more than one kind, but it was 2:30 am when this batch finished. She said something about making some more tomorrow.