20240825_122320

Corn Harvest and Blanching

We have found our favorite way to harvest our annual sweet corn crop is to blanch it, cut it off the cob and freeze it.

First we pick it.

20240825_105429

Then we cut the ends off and remove the husk. We stock pile the corn on cookie sheets as it waits for blanching.

20240825_112629

We put the corn in the instant pots with about an inch or two of water in the bottom. Set the timer on the instant pot for…

3 minutes

Depressurized the instant pot and remove the blanched corn. We normally put the blanched corn into 9×13 glass pyrex pans.

20240825_122309

Allow the corn to cool for a few minutes. Then we cut the corn off the cobs using a scewer and large knife. Get close the cob but not too close as it is not fun to eat corn with crunchy cob bits in it. We scrape the corn off the cutting board into a 32 cup tupperware bowl. THIS IS A MESSY PROCESS. We put a bucket on the floor for composting the cobs. After all the corn is off the cobs, we put the corn in quart or gallon ziplock bags. We like to flatten then out and suck the air out. It is easier to break apart for smaller uses and sucking the air out helps keep it fresh. Enjoy your delicious sweet corn year round.

Corn Bagged

My Thoughts On Saint Paisios

Lutheran moving toward Orthodoxy. Fact: Masons took over Orthodox Patriarchates in 1920s, established Masonic Orthodoxy (World Orthodoxy) pushing for Ecumenism. Adopted Papal Calendar. Response: Orthodox Flee. Orthodox stay under Masonic changes.

When I mention this, World Orthodox respond like Mohammedans/papists by moving around the issue.

Paisios is a great man in so many ways. I am not convinced he is a saint. Statements attributed to him have problems. e.g. Greeks retaking Constantinople. 16 million people don’t seem likely to be moving anywhere absent of converting to Orthodoxy. Commander dies before leading the charge.

His statements about the European Union are problematic. “It won’t last for many years,” he said. “It would be destroyed by the Brits and Americans, because they are one nation and work together. They say, what’s going on here? Is Hitler rearing his head again? And that’s how they’ll dissolve it.”

A student of history understands that the “Brits and Americans” (Anglo-American establishment), created the EU. Carroll Quigley was writing about its creation in the 1960s by the US and British Elites. Even if you consider 30 years “not long” his disconnect from the Truth is concerning. The comment about Hitler is interesting. Hitler is also a creation of the Anglo-American establishment and financial elite. They needed a weird gnostic masonic theosophy religion (National Socialism) to prevent there being an Orthodox Monarchy growing up in central Europe to oppose them.

Lawn Mower Repair Deck Support Plate

I love my Husqvarna TS 354D Swedish lawn tractor. My Swedish relatives have one small engineering flaw. The front deck bolt plate can bend backwards causing the front of the deck to dip into the ground. Root cause: Using tractor as a leaf dozer in the fall.

I pulled the plate off and bent it back by pounding it on a 3-inch heavy-duty pipe with a sledgehammer. I found a picture of the part online so that I could replicate the angle of a non-bent plate. Husqvarna Deck Suspension Bracket, Front RR 585338801

I welded some gusseting on the underside of the plate so that the issue should not reoccur. Painted black. Hopefully, I will be able to use it as a leaf dozer in the future without issue.

Hopefully, the gusseting will not be in the way when I mount it.

20240211_111919 20240211_111924 20240211_112920 20240211_112935 20240211_113534 20240211_113549 Deck Suspension Bracket 585338801 20240211_111915

AI Artwork Neologisms

The field of AI image generation is fascinating. Never before has artwork been so easy to produce at massive scale and diversity. The generation of beauty is an energy we humans share with God. This technology has tremendous possibilities and dangers. Some use it to produce beauty. Others use it to depict ludeness, hideousness, darkness and evil. We must focus on the good, virtuous and beautiful.

New technology requires new terms.

Humanigen: Character generated by a computer image generation program resembling a human.

Manigen: Character generated by a computer image generation program resembling a male human. This term can also refer to all computer generations which look like either a human man or woman.

Womanigen: Character generated by a computer image generation program resembling a female human.

Animaligen: Character generated by a computer image generation program resembling an animal.

Demonigen: Character generated by a computer image generation program resembling a demon.

Mutiligen: Character generated by a computer image generation program which is abhorrent mutilation nature and reality.

I could go on and on. You append igen on the end of the standard word to clarify that this image is created with a computer algorithm.