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Sigh. I work Saturday; Sunday will be the usual domestic stuff including attempting to get rid of the weeds (for about the tenth time this year) in the back yard. :zzz

 

I am going to sleep until Monday.

 

Here ya go:-

http://allrecipes.com/recipes/side-dish/vegetables/corn/top.aspx

I've been up all night with joint pains and insomnia, (damn, I hate old age!), so I decided to cook chicken soup, smoked ham hocks, pickled a heap of onion, garlic and chillies and so forth. (Yes I am a Redneck, lol!).

Your garden sounds like mine. my lawn has turned into half a meter of weeds, but at least they are green LOL. remember my fruit crop efforts? :neener

Well, it's now Saturday, down-under - so Friday has come, been and gone. Guess I'll be wed whacking today and finishing planting my Lime tree, Bay leaf tree, garlic and onion bulbs, and flower bulbs. Told my g/f I was planting bulbs and she said, "uh?...you are plating light bulbs??:confused, (she was serious, too!). So I just said yeah, they are Christmas trees - complete with light bulbs, when they grow up they are turning into street lamps.:confused (She's blond, too....LOL.)

 

Okay, so I meant to say weed whacking. It's definitely been a long night for me!

 

For a change, Friday actually means time off for me! :-D I'm at my niece's house tonight, then tomorrow morning we get up way early to be part of the human shield between the Westboro Baptist Church and the funeral of a local Marine killed in combat. Then we hit the farmer's market, and then it's off for vacation for a week!

We've rented the biggest cabin (the one they call the Chalet) for the week at http://www.ellislakeresort.com/. Me, my niece, her husband, and the kids (6, 5 and 3). These are the adopted beautiful babies some of you may remember. I cannot wait. :-D

By the way, maybe http://www.recipezazz.com/recipe/corn-casserole-0? It's not necessarily summery, but it's really tasty! Instead of canned corn, use kernels from 2-3 ears.

 

Yeah, they're still at it. But at last count, we are supposed to be about 4,000 on our side in attendance. Which apparently makes this the largest turnout against them (by a LOT...their biggest so far was about 700), and Westboro has taken it off their list. :-D Seems this incredibly conservative, really religious area is having none of their nonsense. The theory is that we have scared them off, and that works. We'll all still be there for the family.

We are SO looking forward to this vacation! We aren't planning to leave the complex for any reason, so it's going to be eight days of sitting in the woods by the lake. They even have wi-fi! LOL

 

Spoiler Alert!!!!!!!!!!

Friday has been and gone here and it was great.
Saturday is better though (so far)
:-D

 

Just the normal weekend crap except

- Go out to dinner Saturday evening with the oldest daughter's fiancee's folks.
- Go up to son-in-law's family house for a belated birthday dinner for him.

So no cooking/grilling for me this weekend which suits me just fine.

Oh yeah, I do have to work on my mom's car but hopefully it's only a vacuum leak somewhere amongst all the damn lines on her engine.

 

Well I''ll be working today and probably arguing with my boss over working tomorrow, then tomorrow I will be cutting up my new PC case so I can put window and shiny stuff in it :-D
I'm very excited about this

Hope your dinner plans go well Laura, unfortunately I don't know much about corn, if I lived 6 miles North I would know since they have Cornfest every year, but not really my thing.

 

These are two of my favourite corn recipies:-


Corn Maque Choux:


http://allrecipes.com/recipe/melodys-corn-maque-choux/detail.aspx :drool


Mexican Blackened Corn:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/mexican-blackened-corn/detail.aspx :yum


And this is from a guy who doesn't like most veggies, (except potatoes, corn, peas and other pretty boring ones ) Yeah, you made me go out and buy corn on the cob and little yellow U.F.O. shaped squash. LOL The corn over here is great a.t.m., too.

 

I hate corn, unless it is popcorn. :-D

I can't believe those westboro people are still around. I am all for the 1A, but also believe some people just deserve an arse kicking.

As far as the weekend, I am going to eat some Chick Fil-A Spicy Chicken hate sandwiches, do some shooting at the range, then clean the house and entertain Max.

And sleep until I wake up Sunday.... Usually an hour or so later than usual, but it is nice to be able to sleep until I want to get up, instead of that evil alarm.

 

:-D:-D I love your sense of humor. Reminds me of this great picture I saw someone posted on fb. It was a picture of their Chic-fil-A sandwich and some fries, they captioned it "mmm hate & bigotry never tasted so good" :-D


Weekend so far is meh, spent last night and today trying to figure out what's wrong with the laptop now.. so fun..rolleyes

Tonight however, going over a girl friends house and we are gonna bake something tasty and stuff our faces. :yum LOL

 

I get my Chik Fil-A sandwiches with extra 1A. :-D I saw a picture of someone supporting or protesting CFA holding a sign that said 'Don't be a Chick-Fil-A-hole'. Thought that was pretty funny.