The world is a messy place and I am finding life a bit frightful. That’s where I find myself these days. There’s no rest or peace. My thoughts go round and round like a frog in a blender – a bloody mess. There’s nothing to do but sit and stay.

So here I am, on this 5th day of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. It’s more like my own personal journey on a lonely highway. I set out to write every day to make sense of the mess out there and in my mind. I must keep on. It’s better to limp along than to give up. I have decided to take an active part in our messy world rather than hide away in my personal sanctum. I am not alone so I might as well butter up and pull up my straps. Time to stop whining.

It helps to have a purpose to keep those boogie men away. And I do have one or two serious ones. Like I said yesterday, I am on a food adventure. Yesterday’s shopping was for the makings of fire cider. I wasn’t quite ready for it today. It can wait a little while but the corn in the cooler is getting older and older. They’ve been harvested a few weeks ago. I finally got my corn cutter from Lee Valley today. You can guess what came next. Here are the pictures.

First I removed all the husk off the cobs. Next I stripped off the kernels with corn cutter. Then I put half inch of water into pot large enough to hold all the corn. Next put the corn in and boil for 3 minutes. Remove pot and put pot into sink of ice cold water. Cool corn to room temperature. Bag corn in freezer bags. I got 4 bags for the freezer. Another day, another post.