Friday night one of my neighbors who works on a local farm knocked on the door. He had a truckload of freshly picked sweet corn and wanted to know if we wanted any. He did this last year too. He refuses money, just spreading around the goodness. We got 2 dozen ears so Saturday Marc and I shucked them and Sunday I processed them for the freezer. Blanch in boiling water for 5 minutes, dunk in cold water to stop them cooking, cut the kernels off the cob (you can freeze the whole thing but we don’t have room in our freezer for that), and bag up in vacuum sealed bags. I got 11 2/3 cups out of 18 ears (I kept six back for immediate consumption).
He’ll have more in a week or two and I’ll repeat the process so that we have corn for as long as it lasts. I don’t buy corn at the grocery store. I don’t know the farmer, I don’t know where it’s grown, I don’t know how long it’s been picked, and most the corn grown in this country is genetically altered. As the farmer who I used to buy my corn from said, if a worm won’t eat it neither will I. Turns out he was the brother of another neighbor and he died. The same neighbor has another brother who grows corn but I missed his harvest this year.
I did finish the zucchini part of the painting. I don’t know if it would pass for a botanical illustration but I’m happy enough with it (so she says but I may darken one area) and more than ready to be done with it.
I did the flower part first in glass as part of the botanica erotica series and then I did the drawing where I included the zucchini.
And I started on a new little painting, a pomegranate, 4” x 4”. It is also from the botanica erotica series. I thought some of them would make nice little paintings to put in the market at Hesed House.
Here’s the glass version. 4 1/2" x 4 1/2".
I got the proofs for the notecards. There are 7 designs but I’m going to package them in groups of five. Ten copies will give me 14 sets of cards. The bee will be turned so it’s horizontal on the card.
I have another follow up appointment with the ophthalmologist today and I hope that she will discontinue the drops.
