Friday night we picked corn at Aunt Veronica & Uncle Lyle’s. Every year they plant sweet corn with their regular field corn planter – so this is one huge “patch” of corn – and generously allow friends and family to come and pick what they want.
The plan was to freeze it first thing Saturday morning, but hay making ended up taking precedence. As Matt & I drove in and out hauling hay bales back from the field Saturday afternoon, there was Olivia on the porch husking her little fingers to the bone. Without being asked, even!
She had the majority of it husked by the time we got started with it at 7:00 that night. Good thing – as it was, we didn’t finish until midnight. I can’t imagine what time it would have been if we’d had to shuck all the corn as well. She got her allowance doubled for the week for her efforts 🙂
Put 37 bags of corn in the freezer. Next weekend we’ll do it again.
I’ve done this before when I was a kid but not in that volume. It’s hard work.She really does deserve the extra allowance..