More about July

One of the great things about living in the country is all of the fresh produce that our neighbors grow. We tried growing a garden once and it was too much for us. Our neighbor Chuck kept us in Zucinni, lettuce, squash and okra. Then last week our next door neighbor, Ron, provided us with corn on the cob, tomatoes, more zucinni, squash, and cucumbers oh yes and green beans.

This week Ron has once again provided tomatoes, 30 ears of corn, jalepeno peppers, banana peppers, green peppers, cabbage and I may have forgotten something. Ron's corn is the most delicious we have ever had. It is called "Bodacious" and it is even sweeter than our long time favorite "peaches and cream". It is so sweet you can eat it without cooking it. Ron is a very kind man and believes in sharing with his neighbors. Once he and his wife have put up all of the vegetables they will use they invite their church members to come out to pick what they would like.

I still had frozen peaches in the freezer from our tree from last summer so I thawed them out and made about a dozen freezer jars of peach jam. Sooooo goooood. Now we have several bags of frozen corn and green beans put up and at least 20 ears of corn we will need to eat in the next few days. Not a problem. We fixed BLT's today and each of us had 3 ears of corn. Oink! Oink!

Oh yes also made two loaves of Zuccinni bread. Shared some with Ron and Joanne and like the piggies we always are, Paul and I ate the rest.