Projects are still not complete and time is quickly running away from me. The heat is not helping matters any and my garden is a severe disappointment.
Yesterday the farmer that we purchased our hog from was selling his sweet corn out of his truck up on Main Street. DH bought a dozen walking home from the hardware store and then cooked them for lunch for us all. I was going to freeze the remaining cobs and the thought occured to me that I might as well freeze a couple of dozen if I was going to freeze any, so off he went to purchase some more. About 5 dozen more. So that is what I did all afternoon, well until I my new Seal-A-Meal started giving me grief and then I ran out of bags.
DH was kind enough to walk up to the hardware store in 102 degree temps and come home with the only two boxes they had. These boxes must have been on their shelves for a couple of decades, as I had never seen any quite like these. They were almost a cellophane. After working and working AND WORKING with the appliance, I discovered that it was not the bags….it was a faulty sealer. This is sad in that I purchased it last year, but had only used it once prior to yesterday. The vacume portion wasn’t functioning properly and the sealer sometimes did not seal. So I still have about half of my corn sitting in the fridge…already shucked and no way to store them. Those two boxes of bags were over $12 with tax, I am disappointed that i didn’t just buy Ziplocs. This is usually what happens to me on spur of the moment ideas.
Anyhow, I thought I would share a few photos from yesterday…..
My Hero shucking corn on the side porch…..
This is one of the few times the vacume sealer worked…sort of……
As mentioned, I am sorely disappointed with my garden. So much work and expense for such a small harvest. OH! and the jalapeno peppers that I thought I was planting, ended up being hungarian or banana. Not much use for them around here. 
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In the past, Blue Jays have not been in my good favor. In every location I have lived, prior to here, the Blue Jays were aggressive, threatening, and pretty much a nuisance. This year is different. Not too long ago, we rescued a baby Jay from one of our window wells. All day, I would go out and check on it and talk to his momma sitting on a nearby branch. I shaded the well from the afternoon sun. The little darling had to sit in the well all day until DH could get home because I am not agile enough to do the climb down into our deep wells, and…well, I was somewhat afraid.
Here is the video of the rescue…..
And a few photos of the little darling……
The last photo is of mom sitting on the roof of the house next door, where we were trying to get baby into the shrubs.
After a bit, DH tried to get the baby bird to go into some shrubbery and it began causing quite a commotion. Quick as as lick, the momma was right there, and was within inches of swipin’ the top of DH’s head. (See that is why I am afraid of them.) I don’t have photos or videos of that part because I was too busy cowering.
Early this morning DH tippy toed (haha) into the dining room to say come quickly…but quietly…momma was feeding her baby from my tea cup feeder. So many times, I have tried to catch the mom eating from my feeder, but she has been quite elusive. Today, I was actually able to covertly slip onto the back porch to snap a few photos of mom’s and kid’s antics. I wish I knew if this was the li’l darlin’ we rescued or not. Momma rewards me for placing food in her feeder by immediately coming for the dinner call. Sometimes she will dart right in even if I am still puttering in the yard.
The photos are not as clear as I would have liked, but under the circumstances they aren’t too bad. 
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I just ate my first tomato off my very own vine in a late lunch salad. Cooking in the slow cooker on my kitchen counter is a pork roast purchased from a farmer only 3 miles from me….HOW MUCH MORE LOCAL CAN YOU GET? 
All morning the aroma of the roast has whifted through the entire house, downstairs and up….and it is all meat aroma…no seasonings, no gravies, no anything except water and pork. I just sneaked a tiny…yes, yes, I’ll say that… a tiny, little bite. It was a monumental mistake! Now I am going to have to keep myself soo, sooooo, soooooo busy, so I do not return to the lovely little pork roast…the darling porky roast that so subtly calls my name.
This evening I will make a call to my new favorite farmer to thank him for allowing us to purchase Abby the pig in the first place.
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We enjoyed driving through Ottawa, Kansas (my first time other than on the freeway) on our return trip from Lawrence this past weekend. I love old buildings and thought I would share.
These past two days, I have been under the weather a bit. In addition, my external hard drive, which had no back-up, crashed. It is still under warranty, but I fear that all of my daughter’s volleyball and basketball videos, vacation photos, etc. are forever lost. I am in mourning.
I cannot even download the photos from this past weekend until I can either have this one replaced or purchase another.
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