Okay, so we have been socked in all these days; I’ve lost count of my sunshine-free days. Oh, don’t get me wrong, Mr. Sun shows up but he modestly hides behind a cloud and when we aren’t looking he might pop out for a few minutes. This morning looked so promising! Beautiful sunrise, clear sky, Mr. Sun, strutting his stuff and then BOOM! Gone! Gone! Gone! Now we are enveloped under a thick blanket, heavy with snow.  Mark my words, tomorrow we are going to wake up to a fresh dump of snow and not the paltry 5cm we had this past week; it’s going to be a THICK blanket of snow!

With no real sunshine and all the conservation of power that can possibly be mustered the batts are still on the low side. Not so low as to cause concern but Devin (former owner and Earthship extraordinaire guy) was here yesterday so Luke took advantage of all his knowledge and had him go over the generator with him.  Not that it really worked; though we didn’t discover that until Devin had driven off into the sunset – yes, Mr. Sun peeked out yesterday, albeit under that security blankie of his!  Devin was still the star of the day; he brought us two more 100lb tanks of propane!!! Now I have 3 100lb tanks for the kitchen and 2 100lb tanks for the hot water.

But even better than that, he brought us groceries! Now when I did my $1000.00 shop on October 30 I was totally winging it; totally winging it! Had I have known then what I know now I would have bought a butt-load more canned goods, zero freezer product and many, many more candles! How I have missed green vegetables! I was steering clear of purchasing canned vegetables because I grew up on them and hated them 😛 Blech! Upon the advice of one of Krick’s friends I DID order French Style Green Beans, Asparagus Tips,  Mushrooms Stems and Pieces, a bunch of canned legumes since it seems I can never used any electrical appliances, and the item I have been craving for weeks now, CORN! Oh my, a dozen cans of niblet corn.

And that is really what this post is all about. Canned Corn.
You see, I couldn’t wait to dig into it! So this morning rather than Pancakes, Oatmeal, Fried Eggs and Toast, or Fresh Scones…none of that would suffice today because today I have corn!! So I made a creamy smooth polenta, threw in half a can of niblet corn and a handful of fresh blueberries. Sigh. (eyes closed, imagining all that goodness in a single bowl)
The polenta was velvety smooth; the kernels of corn crisp and bursting with sugary goodness when you bit into one; the blueberries, sinfully silky, exploding with sweetly sour juices; the sweet BC honey seeping into every nook and cranny in the bowl offering a touch of sweetness to each and every bite. Breakfast was freaking orgasmic this morning, my friends, freakin’ orgasmic!

ps… please don’t ever let me forget to get corn again!