Off with their heads!

Off with their heads! I’m talking about my sunflowers. I harvested them today. After picking the seeds out of about six of them I had enough to start roasting. Now I’m a novice at sunflower seed roasting but I figure, how hard can it be? Well, first off I have all these itty bitty pieces of stuff that I don’t want in with the seeds. I could pick it all out but that could take forever and I’m not feeling particularly patient today. So I reckon I’ll do what I do with beans, just put them in some water and pick out the stuff that floats to the top. WRONG, WRONG, WRONG! Sunflower seeds float! How was I supposed to know? After considering my next course of action for a few moments I added sea salt to the water, let them soak for a while, placed everything on cookie sheets, and am roasting it all. I’ll worry about picking out the foreign objects later.

Still have about 7 more sunflower heads to relieve of their seeds but my fingers are a bit tired. What is that black sticky stuff that doesn’t want to wash off of my hand? Anyway, I strung the sunflower heads up to dry and now have a sunflower wirlly gig thing hanging on my front porch. What the heck, my neighbors already know I’m strange. Maybe I’ll pick the rest tomorrow.

Update from previous posts…… The inadvertent sour dough bread came out great! I finished two large canvases on Tuesday but managed to tweak my back so have been a bit slow on the draw these past few days. Message chairs are a blessing from the dogs! I have to get better soon or I’ll never finish seven more paintings by Halloween.

One last tid bit, miracle of miracles I’m actually going to get some yellow squash out of my garden. Yah! The squash plants I had earlier this summer gave up the ghost and croaked after the first sudden heat wave. One a whim I stuck some more seeds in the ground around the tenth of July and believe it or not I now have six little squash! I think its record time. Next year I might just wait until July to plant squash.