Summer Bounty

Perfect peppers

Good old summertime! There is nothing like fresh homegrown produce. As you know, if you have been reading my blog, I am not a gardener, but I sure do love to eat fresh fruits and vegetables. From our tiny little garden that we planted, I have harvested an abundance of green peppers. I got enough green beans for Steve and me to enjoy a couple of meals and the same with the lima beans. There is NOWHERE you can buy lima beans that come close to tasting the way they do right from the garden. My four hardy tomato plants are loaded with green tomatoes and I have been picking the red ones for the past week or so. It's so nice to have my own tomatoes for my salad that I eat each day for lunch. My only disappointment was that bugs destroyed my eggplants.

We planted plenty of sweet corn and thought that we would have enough for anyone who wanted some. Unfortunately, the deer really attacked it and sadly we did not end up with nearly as much as we expected. We have never before had such deer damage but we are really seeing them a lot this year, even in the middle of the day.

On Monday, Steve's mom, his sisters Doris and Nancy, Kristen, Megan, and two of Nancy's granddaughters came to help with corn. I always dread "corn day" but said afterward that if they want to come every year when I do corn I will never dread it again. They made short work of the corn that we had and we certainly would have been able to handle more. Even though we didn't get as much corn as we had hoped, we all got to take home some and hopefully those that want more will be able to get it from another source.

Yes, they tasted as good as they look.

The pile of corn

Husking

Martina (back facing) and Alexis helped with husking and afterward had a great time playing with my American Girl dolls.

Still husking.

Cutting the corn off the cob.

Kaylene was in charge of cooling the corn.

Megan did the cooking.

Alexis and Hannah were having a great time with the jeep until....

...the boys showed up.  Who has the right of way here?

Alexis protects her little sister from the boys :)

It was great to spend the day together and as I said before, they are all welcome to come back next year!