While waiting for the fixin's to finish cooking, Daisycat, Momcat and I went through my corn field and harvested the cobs.  Here is the haul:


There is a thick blanket of vetch that self-seeded under the corn from last year. I will let that grow on its own, rather than trying to seed in the winter pea mix that I had planned. It will climb the corn stalks over the winter and into next spring. I will till it all under prior to planting next summer.


Many of the cobs were still damp. I'm somewhat eager to get them shucked in order to weigh the harvest. All told, it was a fairly small harvest for the plot size, because of the poverty of the soil. This year will make a good baseline to compare subsequent year's harvests as the soil improves. So to speed the drying, I packed my dehydrator full of cobs and set it on the lowest setting for a couple days.

By the end of the weekend, some cobs were still not dry enough to shuck, so I left them to air dry for a week.

Thomas the cat--desktop model.


The rest of the weekend I spent working on priming the plywood panels that will become my storage cabinets.


Watching paint dry...

Because these panels are so heavy, I decided that after I got both sides painted, I would cut them into the required 16" strips before stacking them for further trimming to size.


I get accustomed to how fast paint dries in the heat of summer. This weekend was a balmy Indian Summer kind of day, with light breeze, temperatures in the upper 70's, crystal clear skies, etc. ("shut up DC". yea yea...), but the paint was taking an hour to dry per side anyway. I couldn't very well move them until they were dry, and I only had room to lay out one at a time.

So in between waiting for each panel to dry, I did other things, like replacing the power supply on Momcat's computer, gathering up tools from various locales and finding them homes in the workshop, and...getting into that west bedroom.

"Why the dread, DC?" It's deep in there. This has become the repository for stuff that did not otherwise find an immediate home, plus a whole lot of construction supplies and tools that wandered in there during other phases of other projects. Behold:


Somewhere about mid-Sunday afternoon, I realized (D'Oh!) that the panels would dry faster if I put a fan on them. Yeah, Desert Cat--Sooper Genius! I swear sometimes, if I hadn't been born with such an excess intellectual capacity, I'd really be hurting for brainpower by now. At the rate I seem to be losing it, I ought to have a normal intelligence by the time I die...

So between about 2 PM and 5 PM Sunday, I got more panels painted, cut up and stacked than I did the rest of the weekend prior.


Next week: The continuing adventures of the bumbling idiot savant.