Happy new year. Hope you had a good one. We had a quiet evening, invited a couple of friends in, Martin did the barbecue and I made chocolate brownies to go with the ice cream.
It’s ridiculously hot beyond amusing here. Praise the Lord for that paddling pool otherwise I’d be taking up residence in the fridge. At least we’ve had electricity all day today though, unlike two days ago when we lost it for six hours which was even less amusing than it sounds.
I harvested my first crop of sweet corn (we are in the Americas after all) the other day, and made humitas, which is a traditional Andean food involving lots of corn. I borrowed this recipe which you can read in English or Spanish, and the cultural article before you actually get to the recipe is quite interesting too. They were pretty fiddly with all the messing around with corn leaves and the like, but they turned out OK, and I’m not sure what else I’d have done with that many sweet corns, given that they don’t keep for months on end, unlike my trusty butternut squashes.
Today’s theological conundrum… “Mummy…?” “Yes?” “Listen… if you have a daddy, like our Daddy, and then you have a baby, like Danny, then you have one daddy and one baby.” “Yes…” “So how can God be the Daddy and the baby?” Well, (I didn’t say) Rutherford decided it wasn’t possible so he wrote a different story, but most people don’t agree with him, but if we’re honest even most of us who don’t agree with him are still trying to get our heads round it even though we think it’s true, and if you can come up with a concise answer which can be equally understood by a six year old and a theologian, publish!
Now I’m off to climb into the fridge see if I can find something to eat. Have fun, hope 2014 turns out well for you.