The Mennobrarian

This Post May Inspire You to Imperfection

12:30, Tuesday, July 29, 2008 .. Posted in Homemaking .. 3 comments .. Link

We're just a few days into the massive cherry tomato harvest, and although some will inevitably end up canned (thanks for the tips) and frozen, I enjoy giving them away as fast as they can be picked. A lot of the mothers here at the library are very grateful to receive healthy fresh-from-the garden treats. They also want to place orders for other things too! ("Will you make whoopie pies soon?") At home, I am making fresh salsa and have learned to make garlic-y tomato bruschetta, too. My motto at home right now is: Eat Tomatoes Every Day. The motto accompanies the perpetually asked questions, "Why aren't you picking tomatoes right now?" and "Did you ask _____ if they want some cherry tomatoes?"

I noticed something odd the other day, and that is no one detassels corn here in the East. This was only noticed because there is plenty of corn growing around us, and it is now the time of year when, in the midwest, you expect to see youths in long sleeves and hats making a minimal hourly wage detasseling corn. Why is this not done in the East? My husband had never even heard of detasseling corn. Someday, future generations may not either, as detasseling in the midwest is on the endangered list.

A lament seen on other blogs lately is the criticism from some people who sadly see the current crop of homemaking blogs as doing the following two things: Presenting their creators as having overly-idealized and perfect, happy lives, and setting impossibly high standards for others to live up to. It has never occurred to me to see any blog as something to live up to, though it is easy to identify some bloggers who are struggling so hard in their own lives that they do over-compensate by painting an extremely flowery picture of their life. But as for finding other people's posts as depressing inducers of mass inadequacy aimed at other women, I find blogs that offer things far and above my own content to be nothing short of inspiring. Never would I think that anyone, anyone, has a perfect life without challenges and regrets. No matter how great a blog is, the fact that it is created by an imperfect human wouldn't escape me for a minute.

Anyway, at least those of you who read this know that you are in no danger of feeling sub-standard over here. Unless you find the idea of living in a filthy, deconstructed, bare-studs-showing, semi-open to the elements, marriage-challenging, tiny home without walls and floors to be highly innovative inspirational.

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maters

03:55, Wednesday, July 30, 2008 .. Posted by Anonymous
Thanks for your post...you are one of my favorites. I wish I was your neighbor and recipient of those lovely tomatoes. Where I live, in this part of north Idaho, we are lucky to get even a few tomatoes before the frost cometh! :) v.

***Thanks for the comment. When people see me coming now they say 'MATERS!****

Edited by Mennobrarian on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 at 03:23

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11:30, Wednesday, July 30, 2008 .. Posted by
Yes, but you're clearly an objective, thinking reader. Those are also endangered.

I live in the east

11:12, Saturday, August 2, 2008 .. Posted by HeatherD76
and it is ture that we don't detassle our corn. I have never herd of it. How come one detassels corn?