SUMMER !!

It isn't quite summer until THIS happens, CORN ON THE COB !! Oh yummy, yum, yum!

I had this last night and there are two more ears left. They will probably disappear tomorrow I'm thinking. Look at that baby glistening with melted butter....

There is some salt on there too as you can see, some of it sticking to the side of the dish. I have new corn dishes too. I have had one last white one for years and of course, one at a time is all I need for me, but I was buying some for one of my sisters and what the heck, I decided to have some new ones myself ! These are a soft butter yellow. I thought they were quite sweet.

When I was growing up, around the time I turned 8, my family moved to a house that had a bit of a small field behind it and there my Dad began to plant a garden every summer. It was not huge as gardens go, but it was not small either. He planted beans and corn and tomatoes and okra and cucumbers and a few other things now and then. We use to help snap beans and shuck corn and all that fun stuff and he and Mom would can a lot of it for the winter. That meant we were eating very well all year long.

One thing my Dad did that I think stuck with all of us was, when the Silver Queen corn came in (it HAD to be Silver Queen), we'd have a meal that was all-you-can-eat corn on the cob. We all loved it and so did he and at least once, sometimes twice, we melted lots of butter, got out the corn dishes, which if I remember correctly, were green and plastic with the ridged design of the corn shucks on it.... and salt and pepper of course. We children thought that was the grandest thing ! So now, all these years later, we all have an affinity for it and try to get our fill when it starts coming in fresh.

Nothing left but the bits !

Ok, I fibbed, there were no bits left, because I ate these too !

It's wasn't truly summer till this happened.

I think I can see the weekend from here. I got my car back after work and that made me happy. I took it to the carwash and then stopped next door to that and bought some broasted chicken, which I am about to go eat for supper.

I hope everyone has had a good week so far and has some fun plans for the weekend.

Luv ya !

Jacey