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Corn Picking

This has become the summer of picking produce! I had no idea my city-born children would become so familiar with "the land" so early in life. What fun!

Some friends from church have quite the little farmstead, barely out of the suburbs, just minutes from church. They were out of town when most of their corn was ready for picking, so church families were able to help themselves. Generous folks, that family.

Not much else to say about it, really, so I'll just show you the pictures and products of about 20 minutes of corn-picking!

"The corn is inside here?!"

Lots of help from Oma on this trip.



Littlest one wasn't so sure about being among the corn stalks.
But it sure was great to have Daddy along!

Eating fresh corn!

The second full bucket.


The swimming pool: the perfect place for shucking corn.

So much happening in this picture! Silas climbing on the table while chewing on a corn cob, Levi running with a freshly-shucked cob, the more-and-more-visible baby bump, and Owen searching intently for the eyes in the back of Oma's head. (Yes, really.) Love my crazy family!

Swimming in corn husks . . .

 . . . and carrying the cobs into the house.

After all the corn was shucked, my mother-in-law stuck around for at least an hour or two, blanching it all and cutting it from the cob. We got approximately ten gallon-size freezer bags of corn -- plenty to last the winter and beyond!
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