Oh, those garden gnomes....

Those garden gnomes MUST have sprinkled me with motivation dust while sleeping last night!!!  Almost 12 straight hours of garden/harvest/preserving work!  And I'm not even completely exhausted :D

Once the pizza sauce finished up its hot water bath, the girls and I headed out to the garden to start picking and shucking corn.  After weeks of beans, the change of pace was nice!!!  Even the girls didn't seem to mind this task;  it really wasn't that bad. {{Plus it helped that it was overcast and cool out today!  Upper 60s}}

We had a good assembling line going.  I helped with the shucking while the water was heating on the stove for blanching.  Once ready, I headed inside to start the blanching/cooling task while the girls continued shucking.

Yup---glass top stove!  Ignorance is bliss for sure!  Prior to this summer, I was unaware of the "dangers" and "No-No's" involved when it comes to hot-water bathing and pressure cooking (supposedly) with glass top stoves.  

Hmp.  Well, this is my.......6th (?) year of preserving my summer garden, and I have yet to have my glass top shatter;  I have yet to deal with the burner not reaching the temperature required for hot-water bathing.  **shaking head**  **shrug** ??? Maybe I came away with a winner when we bought our top!  

By lunch time, most of the corn was shucked and blanched.  And guess what we ate for lunch??!?!?!  :P

After lunch....cutting and cutting and cutting the corn off the cob.  I kept sneaking peeks at the Chinese/Brazilian beach volleyball match between cobs.  For a while there, I thought the Brazilian team was going to fall apart;  it was uncomfortable watching the time-out interactions between them;  they just seemed to argue too much for my liking (coming from a former coach).  

Even Paul helped out with the food sealer when he arrived home from work!  I'm not a big fan of the food sealer job;  I'm sure it's easy-peasy, but I've never done that part before and......I had just finished cutting the corn from the cob when he drove in the driveway....so it was meant to be :)

Yield today:  21 bags (4 cups corn each).

And I wasn't done YET!!!!

Go back up and look at the picture of the corn on the table for lunch.... See the angel food dish in the middle of the table?  I use that to cut corn from the cob;  the cob rests on the center-edge while I cut off the corn (with an ELECTRIC knife, of course!!)

Anyway...while cutting away, I tried to remember the last time I had made angel food cake.  No clue!  So, once the dishes were done up, the inspiration and motivation was still going strong.... I found a recipe online for homemade angel food cake.  (For those of you with chickens, this is a GREAT way to burn through a dozen eggs!!!)

And of COURSE we don't have any frosting in the house, so I found a recipe for that too.....

and I'm waiting patiently for the cake to cool (while I write this post) so that I can DIG IN and finally put my feet up for the day!!!!  Oh yeah......dinner tonight:  Pork roast, mashed potatoes, gravy, beans, cob-corn (grilled)......ALLLLL from our garden/animals!  :D

Whaa-hooooo!  Ummmm......dare I say that I get to spend the day sewing tomorrow???  I'll have to check to see if any more tomatoes are ready-n-ripe, but those won't take all day even if there are some ready.

{{Update}}

10-minutes later.....

It won't win any cake awards, but .......Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!