Hello everyone, hope you had a wonderful Labor Day weekend. I so needed to have that weekend to catch up on a lot of work around the farm and home. I froze 43 quart bags of sweetcorn, with the help of my friends Becci, Danny and my wonderful, eldest son Dustin. My super mom had done 28 quart bags, before I had gotten home from work(4am-1pm) at BP. We shucked corn, boiled it for 4 minutes, then cut it off the cob and then bagged and dated it. What a chore, but it sure will be great to eat it this winter. Plus I had done 15 quart bags with my husband a week before. Well I guess you are wondering where did I get all that sweetcorn, well my youngest son and husband planted an acre of it. So we give a lot away to help others. My other project was to pick vegetables out of the garden and do some canning, like pickles and make refrigerator salsa and can some jars of that too. Mission has been completed.
My family also had a Sweetcorn Party on Sunday night with a bunch of family members and friends. We had homemade BBQ's, Sweetcorn, refrigerator salsa, chili-cheese dip, pasta salad, chips, cake, brownies, and strawberry jello dessert. It was bring your own beverage so some people were creative with that. We had a blast and it was nice to sit around the campfire and visit with everyone.
Between home, working 2 jobs, college, church, and my family and friends, I am a very busy person and sometimes hard to get a hold of. But this time of the year is great and very productive to accomplish a lot to get ready for winter. I love to pick my raspberries from my patch and soon I will have squash to do. Harvesting my garden is a reward for our family and we love to eat it all year long. If you have any good and new recipes with raspberries, squash, cucumbers, new potatoes, and tomatoes, I would love to have them. My motto is I will try most anything once and if I like it I will try it again and then it turns out to be a win-win situation.
Well enough about my weekend and by for now. I have 2 big tests this week in A&P and Med Term so off to study.