Hi Paul,

    Here are some corn recipe links that will give you plenty of ideas:

• http://www.post-gazette.com/food/20000629corn1.asp 
• http://camping.about.com/od/recipes/r/ucrec085.htm
  
• http://www.recipezaar.com/63725
  
• http://fruitpages.recipezaar.com/98490
  
• http://www.massrecipes.com/recipes/04/09/grilledcornonthecob27653.html
  
• http://www.texascooking.com/recipes/Hcorncob.htm
  

    That will get you started.  With freshly picked corn (aka maize), just boiling for a few minutes is the simplest thing to do.  Then just slather it with butter (never margarine) and whatever else you like.  I use kosher salt or sea salt, coarse black pepper, and sometimes a sprinkle of oregano ... all of that is just a matter of taste.

We can get corn and tomatoes year round here but the imports from Florida and Mexico are just not worth the out-of-season prices asked for them.  The local farm in Bethany has the best I have ever had.  Connecticut is a lot colder than Ireland, so I think you could  grow  whatever we do here ...  for longer than we do.

I noted your remark about "how quickly they grow up."  That is very true.

My NH friend Mary Anne  whom you've  known since 1972 on Chapel Street. recently had her 68th birthday.  Now her daughter Meghan is in her mid-thirties.

Things like that just stagger me.

I do remember Tim's birth in 1978.  I was there in  Dublin when it happened.

Which is Katie's birth year?

Is she enjoyng Tonoto?