Bekki’s parents were at Nate and
Bekki’s house prior to our arrival. We always enjoy meeting up with Alan and
Julie (Bekki’s parents) as they are really nice and we have much in common, so
we were happy to see them.
Bekki had work lined up for all
of us parents to do but, as we tell our children regularly, “we are not paid to
think and we do only what is good enough for government work”. Our kids knew
what to expect from us!
Our job was to harvest the corn.
This was not just any corn, but rather corn to be ground into a flour, it is dried
on the stock. I had picked corn as a 10-year old child, the 1st time
I’d seen corn growing. Before that, I didn’t even think of where corn came from
other than the grocery store. So, we were to pick this corn off of the stock
and put it into barrels. I quit a bit before the others because I wanted to
shoot some photos of it all.
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| Colorful corn |
This corn was beautiful, cobs of
every color. I was surprised when Nate said that the flour would have some
color speckles in it but, because the inside of the kernels was white the flour
would mostly be white. I took several cobs for our table decoration.
After picking all of the corn and
putting the ears into barrels we were tired and hot. We went in for lunch with
some nice cold beer/white wine.
Bekki wanted for me to harvest
basil but then decided that the basil could wait for another day. We only
harvested veggies for dinner. |
| One kiddo was tired |
Alan made soup out of the turkey
he had roasted last night for dinner and we played the rest of our day away.
Kids made sure that we kept busy playing with them.
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