Sweet corn

One of the reasons summer is my favorite time of year is that there is fresh, local, sweet corn everywhere! For me, the easiest way to cook it is to simply boil it.

Start with a few ears of shucked sweet corn.



And a big pot of boiling salted water. (Seriously? Getting this water to boil is the longest step in cooking sweet corn.)

French Lick Scenic Railway

Every summer, the folks in District 9 of Indiana’s Farm Bureau get together for a trip and a meal. This year, we headed out to historic French Lick, Indiana. There are some pretty neat hotels and casinos there, and it’s the home of Pluto Water, but we weren’t there for the gambling or the sulfur cleanse (Pluto Water – When nature can't, Pluto will!). We were bound for the French Lick Scenic Railway at the Indiana Railway Museum!

The railway uses retired commuter rail cars from the 1920’s Needless to say, they are not air-conditioned. And we had planned this trip for what turned out to be one of the hottest days of the summer so far.



At least most of the train ride was through neat woods like this! We were in the shade for almost the entire trip, and with all the windows open on the rail cars, the heat wasn’t all that bad. (For a 105+ degree day, anyway!)

True Blood

I confess. I get together with a couple of girlfriends (and usually significant others) to watch True Blood. We can’t all make it every weekend, so we’ll store up a few episodes on my DVR and have a marathon session once a month or so.

Photo from StarPulse.com

And there is definitely no shortage of eye candy on these nights.

2012 Gibson County Fair

Last week was our county fair, and as always it was a crazy week! Farmer Doc is on the Fair Board, and he spends the entire week on the grounds. Like last year, the board asked me to take pictures of some of the events, so I spent a bunch of time at the fair, too.

The fair opened Sunday night with hog wrestling. It had rained earlier that day (yay!) so the crowd wasn’t that great, but the mud was just right!

Don’t leave your door open

The other night I got my mixer out to make blackberry cobbler.

I left the cabinet door open long enough to put the mixer down on one of the other counters. When I turned back around, this is what I found.