Like a Twelve-Wheeled Dog
Jan. 30th, 2019 09:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rain_gryphonTonight should be pretty similar to last night. The current local conditions are showing N/A on the Weather Service site, so I'm gonna suppose the cold worked some fell mischief on their data link.
The Canadians, of course, are laughing at us for being such big babies.
I put out dried corn on the cob for the local rabbits. They seem to have been coming over just after sundown from the brushy field across the road, and poking around beneath the feeders, looking for stuff the birds lost, so they're evidently hard up. Their approach path is under the shrubberies where they're a bit sheltered, so I tossed some corn under there for them to find.
The corn I bought is, I'm pretty sure. Reid's Yellow Hybrid, which from 1900 through 1975 or so was about 80% of the corn grown in America. Mom and I were talking the other day about how much we both loved roasted corn on the cob before it turned so sugary you can hardly stand the stuff anymore. I'm pretty sure it was Reid's we were getting. It's considered mainly livestock feed now, but it used to be the general-purpose corn that was used for everything except popcorn, sweet corn, and decorative corn. The stuff you get handed now when you ask for corn is the soft small-kernelled white/pale yellow stuff that we'd have called sweet corn or peg corn when I was a child. Reid's is big chewy kernels, and an intense reddish yellow. I'm keeping some back to plant, and we'll see.
The Canadians, of course, are laughing at us for being such big babies.
I put out dried corn on the cob for the local rabbits. They seem to have been coming over just after sundown from the brushy field across the road, and poking around beneath the feeders, looking for stuff the birds lost, so they're evidently hard up. Their approach path is under the shrubberies where they're a bit sheltered, so I tossed some corn under there for them to find.
The corn I bought is, I'm pretty sure. Reid's Yellow Hybrid, which from 1900 through 1975 or so was about 80% of the corn grown in America. Mom and I were talking the other day about how much we both loved roasted corn on the cob before it turned so sugary you can hardly stand the stuff anymore. I'm pretty sure it was Reid's we were getting. It's considered mainly livestock feed now, but it used to be the general-purpose corn that was used for everything except popcorn, sweet corn, and decorative corn. The stuff you get handed now when you ask for corn is the soft small-kernelled white/pale yellow stuff that we'd have called sweet corn or peg corn when I was a child. Reid's is big chewy kernels, and an intense reddish yellow. I'm keeping some back to plant, and we'll see.
