Becky Has Questions… I Have Answers
I have to admit I volunteered for this. What was I thinking? Thanks Becky for going easy on me!
1. You live in a really rural area — do you ever wish you lived in a city and if so, where would that be? Nope. I've been there and done that and didn't find it very much fun. I was raised in a big city and lived in smaller towns and by far this is my favorite of all. I occasionally think it would be nice to live close enough to have pizza delivery or to be able to have faster internet service, but then I realize it isn't that important. I'm happy with all the good things I get out of this location. I will have to say, when I first moved to the country I thought it was waaaay too dark, and waaaay too quiet. It spooked me if I couldn't see the lights of town shining in the distance. Now? Some days I wish we were even further out.
2. What's the best advice/guidance you've given yourself? Trust yourself. Trust your own instincts, not go by what someone else says. Doesn't mean I'm good at doing this, but in the couple of times it really counted it worked. (That made me sound really wise, didn't it? I'm not. Honest.Just think you have to trust your gut in most things.)
3. What's a particular topic of conversation that usually gets you "going" in that you just have to say something? LOL… where do I start? Probably the one that gets me going fastest is when people complain about food prices going up and blame the farmer for it. Trust me, the farmer isn't the one seeing the huge profit increase. It's the middle-man. I'll stop now before I get on my soap-box. Oh, and I also get pretty riled up about animal abuse. I'm not a fan of PETA but there are some people who I'd like to give a taste of their own medicine when it comes to how they treat the critters. A couple of other things get me going, but I'd say those are the biggies. (Hubs would be so proud… coming from growing up a "townie" to standing up for the farmer. Wow. Amazing…)
4. Is there something in particular that you like to collect? Hubs would say critters 
. In my younger days I had a type drawer and collected tiny things to put it in, but that was in my "country" phase and now am more modern in my taste (my modern and my country always clashed) so those things have been put in storage. I'm kind of a pack-rat, but not really anything in particular – more like lots of "stuff" in general. Probably my biggest collection (unintentionally) would have to be books. I can't get rid of a book after I've read it – unless, of course, it belongs to someone else! I have huge bookcases in the new house and am wishing I'd added more. Maybe someday… (you listening, Hubs?)
. In my younger days I had a type drawer and collected tiny things to put it in, but that was in my "country" phase and now am more modern in my taste (my modern and my country always clashed) so those things have been put in storage. I'm kind of a pack-rat, but not really anything in particular – more like lots of "stuff" in general. Probably my biggest collection (unintentionally) would have to be books. I can't get rid of a book after I've read it – unless, of course, it belongs to someone else! I have huge bookcases in the new house and am wishing I'd added more. Maybe someday… (you listening, Hubs?)5. Have you ever seen Children of the Corn, and if so, has it made you afraid of cornstalks at night? Of COURSE I saw it. I'm not sure if it was re-released, or re-made or whatever. I saw the original one in black and white. Pretty creepy stuff. It never made me afraid of the corn – although I've heard stories of children and animals getting lost in the cornfields, so was always careful not to let the kids or pups go in them. As far as worrying about something come out of the corn? I relate more in a positive way with "Field of Dreams"… where the players came out of the corn. I look at it as a pretty benevolent thing and love hearing the corn grow and rustle in the summertime and smelling the damp earth after it rains. Yes, you CAN actually hear it grow, weird as that seems…
If anyone else wants to play, let me know and I'll try and think up some deep questions to probe your mind!
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10:14 am on July 13th, 2007
you can HEAR the corn growing? how cool!
trusting your instincts is great advice.
11:14 am on July 13th, 2007
I think the Mel Gibson/Joaquin Phoenix movie, “Signs” has alien creatures stalking through corn fields. Very creepy. But I truly love fields of corn, especially when they come right up to green manicured lawns of lovely white farm houses.
12:18 pm on July 13th, 2007
Good answers there. Enjoyable.
3:11 pm on July 13th, 2007
Hey, hit me with your best shot, I guess. I’ve got some extra time to play. I have to admit, I never watched Children of the Corn, even though I was around when the original film was released way back in 1984. I guess they had a limited budget or hadn’t heard of a little invention called Kinemacolor discovered back in 1908. I did however read the black and white version paperback by Stephen King in his book of short stories called Night Shift, and between that storiyand his not uncommon references to children and corn in many of his scarier novels, I have bee subjected to pause and paranoia on occasion when ever the mention of children and corn come up in the same sentence. But I have never been closer than a tv screen to fresh corn growing on the vine or stalk or cane, whatever. I have actually come in contact with corn and children in the frozen food section before- not very dramatic or frightening as I recall, nor as fresh as some would like you to believe (chilren or the corn). I have never been to the valley of the Jolly nor have I ever seen a baby nibblet incubator for premie corn. I never knew there was a difference between field corn and sweet corn until you inlightened me. some chef I turned out to be, i used to naively think that canned corn was delivered by the stork and dropped off right next to the Vlassik Pickles. I did come up with an observation though; I bet it is very dry in a cornfield, I can’t imagine there being much humidity with all that cornstarch around
9:03 pm on July 14th, 2007
Ok, I’ll play if you like…
1:30 pm on July 15th, 2007
I’ve heard you can hear corn growing. I’m so impatient, though, that I probably couldn’t.
And, there is NO way I’d watch that movie. I am scared just reading the title. I am a wuss.
9:43 am on July 16th, 2007
Awesome questions AND answers!
You can hear corn growing???? Learn something new everyday
Hit me if you feel like it. Seems people prefer my more personal blogging. Who’da thought eh?
8:49 pm on July 16th, 2007
I’ve got answers -for you Sue -
http://recipefl.blogspot.com/2007/07/ive-got-answers.html
9:53 pm on July 18th, 2007
My friend Dick and I drove 75 miles to get fresh peaches at our favorite orchard yesterday partly because we love the drive through rolling hills of farm land to get there. Dick worked at his “day job” for 37 years, but also did lots of farming as well. He can hear the corn growing, too, because he planted thousands of acres of it over the years. The farms we saw were brimming with tons of corn and most stalks had two ears, too. That means a bumper crop around here.
I told him the story of how when my dad had his two weeks of vacation we spent it on a farm Mom and Dad owned on which they intended to retire. We actually ate field corn if it was in the right tender stage for corn-on-the-cob. Hey, what does a six-year-old know about good corn, right?
2:52 pm on July 19th, 2007
Sorry it’s taken me a bit to come around — but thanks for participating! I used to not be as into animals when I was younger, but now that I have two dogs of my own, it kills me to hear about animal cruelty.