Thank God for the abundance of it all. Thank you Jim and Gloria for coming all the way from New York in May to plant. Thanks Jim Meiklejohn for help all along the way. Thanks to Pilgrim Farmer John for blessing the little corns when they were an inch tall and standing at attention in rank and file. Thanks My Rebecca for all the freezing and drying. Did I leave anyone out? Oh Steve-O was here early on weeding, thanks buddy.
And the plants survived the hungry deer and Pilgrim Farmer Felipé’s experiment with using propane to flame the weeds. But despite all that in the end it worked. The big goal was to feed the pilgrims at the Veranda which it did no problem and more.
Maybe today I will do a final pick on the Golden Jubilee variety. We had some for tapas yesterday and it was a little past prime. We had some surprise guests yesterday, Ben from Germany and Lindsey from Seattle to help us eat a few ears.
There is a cheerful woman that has worked forever as a checker at the local supermarket and I have to run up a half a dozen to her today sometime. Her father grew corn on the Island for years and was killed in a tractor accident back a while ago. So every year I make sure that she gets a few ears.
Well, yea, corn news. And Farmer John I know that you will be reading this at some point, would you please answer all the comments from your adoring fans. They loved your Friday Caminoheads blog!
OK, off to today. It is drying up outside. We had rain and thunder and lightning last night. Yikes!
thunder and lightning lives, Felipé.
“Adoring fans”, the Man said! This Pilgrim Farmer was neither aware of the possibility, nor prepared to be such personage. The job of the B Team is to support the Varsity in whatever role is needed. I recall my high school days as a “B Team Actual”, and deducing that my particular role was to be the guy that actually gets bowled over as the star basketball guard makes his drive for the hoop.😖 Camono Heads B Team is MUCH less physical 😘 I would be hard pressed to relay to you all the great satisfaction we all felt in being able to assist Phil with his Blog Posts. It is WE who are honored! Semper Fi. PFJ
Ran out of word space before getting to the Thank Yous! The most important part: In no particular order, Muchas Gracias to Jim O’Brien, Henriette Anne, Cris, Robbi, Ronaldo, and Mary Margaret. I have vivid memory pictures (with audio!) of each of you, and truly appreciate your presence at the Veranda and your public noting of my stand-in Blog post. I hope that we shall meet again.
SF,
PFJ