Something Corny To Tell You

I GREW CORN!!!!! My neighbor said it wasn't going to happen. That the raccoons were going to get it. But I did it! It's not your average run-of-the-mill sweet corn. It's a dwarf heirloom variety...and blue. I haven't eaten any yet, and frankly I don't care if it's good or not. I GREW CORN! Now I just need to learn how to save the seed and then I can cross one more thing off my list. Also exciting (well, for me at least)...my tomatoes are starting to ripen!! I have over 30 plants. I'm hoping I have enough to do some canning and get a couple jars of sauce for the winter. I've been canning a lot of what I get from the farm. So far we have done 3 Qts of Strawberry Lemonade concentrate, 8 Strawberry Jams, 8 Strawberry/Raspberry Jams, 6 Dilly beans and today I'm planning on some pickles. I believe I might also pickle my carrots. For some reason my crisper doesn't like to do it's job. I've got limp carrots after a couple days. Not cool. In regards to items on my list...I am continuing to work in my artist's journal. I actually have a project I'm working on for someone! Yay! I don't expect any compensation since it's for fundraising but at least I'll have something to add to my portfolio. Also, I've been brainstorming on ideas for short stories and what I'm going to write in November for nanowrimo (http://www.nanowrimo.org/). I figure if I don't accomplish that this year I'll still have two more Novembers. I've also brought home some photo albums of my grandma's to scan in. I'm going to try to make books for my cousins and uncles. It's a big undertaking and it might take me the rest of my 1001 days to do it. She took A LOT of photos! I started asking her about her past when I started the 101 things project back in February. Unfortunately in a few short months she has gone from bad to the worst...she can no longer speak or do anything on her own. I don't know how much verbal history will be in this book, but it will be packed with photos. I am hoping my great aunts will be able to give me some stories of my grandma and her family growing up. It just goes to prove that life is short and time slips between our fingers. Growing up I always asked her about her life. Now I wish I would've written it down.

I'm on a roll

I'm crossing off #38. Go to Anthropology & art museums at KU...only there is no anthropology museum. It's the Natural History Museum. But it's pretty much anthropological exhibits. I highly recommend taking time to visit it. Only don't go when there's a group of 50 six & seven year olds. The noise can be deafening. My favorite part about the museum was the 3rd floor - paleontology and native species of Kansas. Did you know there used to be saber-tooth cats and mammoths in Kansas?!!!! Yeah, AWESOME! Really, you should go check out this place. We also went to the Spencer Museum of Art. Not as exciting as the history museum. Maybe I was just exhausted. Or maybe it was the dang docent following us around like we were going to jack a painting. It just wasn't as fun and exciting...that was until the power went out for a few seconds. Pitch black. Of course that guy was right behind us so it made it a bit creepy. We were just about to head up to the third floor but you could only get to it by elevator. We decided to say we'd seen enough. The last thing I wanted was to get stuck on an elevator. Especially if that creepy guy followed us onto it. Overall it was a good little day trip. Highly recommended. And if you go, stop in at Local Burger (9th & Vermont, East Lawrence exit, one/two blocks south of the river). This place is YUMMMMY!!! They use local and organic ingredients. And they have a list on the wall of all the farms that they buy their produce from... perhaps one day my farm will be on their wall! (Try the buffalo burger with cheddar and bacon.)

Two Down...98 More to Go

Well, I get to cross two more off my list! Yay! While driving home last week I passed a garage sale that had a lot of furniture. I found the cutest chair! I now have to find some awesome fabric for it to reupholster the seat. I'll post a picture once it's done. AND...I had my cousin dye my hair blonde. It's not all over blonde but more than not. Unfortunately my hair is always pulled back unless I'm going somewhere...and even then. BUT, it looks good! I might have to go all blonde. Once again, I'll post a photo. It's really unfortunate that my laptop monitor went out. I need to get that fixed. It's putting a damper on keeping up with blogging and emails.