It Might Be Corny but….
Today I’m giving thanks for corn!
My brother started picking the corn early this morning and the rest of us showed up later….some of us a LOT later. I arrived about 10 and it didn’t take long before I was up to my EARS in corn (excuse the pun). There was so much corn that my nephew brought it into the kitchen in a wheel barrow!
We handed each of the boys a knife and put them to work cutting the corn off the cob.
The whole family helped out and by the end of the day we had frozen almost 40 large bags of corn! Giving thanks today (and again this winter when we are eating it at Sunday dinners!) for corn and for family who worked together with a common goal!
Amen Grandma Shelley!
I agree. Ma Dot rocks!
Actually they didn’t cut long. They got “fired” and were sent back to pick and shuck!
I know, it’s messy but cooler and we are wimps!
I can’t believe you all cut all that corn off inside! You must be a much more tidy crew than our family. It would take us a week to clean up the kitchen if we did that, so we stick to outside cutting on the picnic table. Great family times though, ones you never forget.
You were mighty brave having teenagers cut off corn in the kitchen! I will not even do that myself…….gotta be outside for I make such a mess. I loved the part of your story about your mom and her glasses for my mother did that too and now so do I! That corn “liquid” is just like paste and sticks to everything. There is no substitute for garden corn.
What she really needed to show was the disaster area that the kitchen became!! Corn kernel/juice on every surface–sticky floors, etc….. Grandma Dorothy earns the Service Medal of Honor for her work for the day, with Robert and Bill close seconds!!!
Working on a common goal is one of my very favorite things. It will take a lot of time to eat 40 big bags of corn. I’m guessing your thoughts will turn to the day you worked together as a family every time it is eaten. That is a very good thing!