Indiana Country

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

I guess he heard about the corn pudding......

Excellent !!

This ripe corn is now a corn pudding, for dinner :))

So, here is Sandy demonstrating how to identify ripe corn, pull down and twist off ripe corn, recognize when it is past ripe (kernels are darker yellow) and "Always put your corn in the bucket tassel side down"...it helps keep the moisture from evaporating.

Now we picked two buckets...it was nothing less than way hot! I try to imagine what it must have been like years ago when corn was harvested by hand....Wow.

The Tassel difference...well...here is sweet tassel.

Sweet Corn in front....

Here are the few rows of sweet corn...you can see the difference...see how the sweet corn in front is shorter and has lighter tassles...and the tassles have a whole differnt shape...see previous picture.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Teddy Sunflower in the mist...July 13th 2010

This is acutally in my aquarium inside with a mist blowing over it...

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Dog Days Of Summer...by the cats.

Happy Flowers....

Can you find the bug??

Measuring the Corn progress July 5th

Koi Pond

My Pumpkin is surrounding my Koi pond. I already have multiple pumpkins eight inches across! This vine is a volunteer...I'm not sure how big they will get.

The Lilies July 5th

Saturday, July 3, 2010

June 28th Sunset

Baki Enjoying the Sunset June

Marvin and the Skunk

Mr. Skunk visited our yard yesterday in broad daylight. He dined on the birdseed bag I had just set out to fill the feeders. Marvin brought his have a hart trap over and loaded it with two marshmallows. Marshmallows...who thought of that one?

Next morning a Big Skunk filled the trap.

Marvin came over with a pistol and a burlap bag. He thought about shooting the skunk but then decided that it might be better to relocate him down the road a bit. Siting the qualities of skunks as consumers of pesty bugs and sometimes mice.

So, he takes his flimsy burlap bag and quietly places it over the cage and carries Mr. Skunk to the back of the truck. Now the skunk did spray a little bit...I didn't know they could spray a little as opposed to full blown explosion.

Marvin wasn't fazed by the spray. He had checked the direction of the wind and wasn't getting the smell. I was having trouble with the smell backing well away from his approach. Marvin chuckled and said, "Well, you're going right in the direction of the wind." The difference was impressive. As I moved out of the air current I found there was almost no odor.

Monday, June 28, 2010

Sunset June 28th ... the sun is setting well to the north of here.

Grapevine...

...If I have the story right...this grapevine was planted some forty years ago...the tree that now shades the grapevine from the sun was only a few feet high. Now this tree stands perhaps a hundred feet tall all but drowning out the light to the vine. Last year there were a half dozen bunches of grapes that the birds enjoyed...this year nothing. Interesting. Will next year have a grape crop...or is the vine finished?

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Time Marches On..............

Three BIG trees went down in a freak wind storm that only a few places were affected by. One big tree fell right over. That one was along the bank of the pond and it's roots must have been weakened by the digging of the pond. The two you see here have an obvious excuse for leaving. On the outside of the tree they look strong, big old elephant like trunks and branches. Inside, these trunks are as hollow as a pipe.

Now more light pours onto the ground. Time will show us what seeds waited below their shadows.