A Rather “Corny” Day
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The crew starting out to pick the corn: Mom, Lauren, Herman, Bethany, and Hannah
$5.00 to the first person to find Lauren… Never mind – we found her. 
More busy members of the picking team!
Bringing in the bounty: 23 dozen ears of corn and… well, we didn’t even TRY to count the tomatoes!
“Peter Dutchy” is in sad shape, but he and “Bobby Lee” faithfully kept the crows where they belonged!
We shucked it all in the garage.
Duke enjoyed the cool, concrete garage Herman was the much-needed
floor while WE were working. cleanup man!
Jessi and Kathryn blanched it all, and then it was stacked to drain before the creaming part of the process.
“In all labour there is profit…” Prov. 14:23
Bethany enjoys the fruit of her labors
Hooray!! Twenty-six more quarts in the freezer!
“The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich…” Prov. 10:22
8 Responses to “A Rather “Corny” Day”
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August 19th, 2009 at 9:42 am
Way to go Neely team! There is nothing like a little family teamwork to look back on and remember. It’s great to see you all pitching in and accomplishing different jobs to make the task go faster. It looks like you had loads of fun!!!
August 19th, 2009 at 12:30 pm
Scrumptious! (The picture of Bethany says it all
) We have been having corn-on-the-cob quite a bit recently here in WV too. There’s nothing like good locally grown sweet corn!
P.S. Was that from your all’s own garden/property?
August 19th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Looks like so much fun!!!! Isn’t working together so enjoyable?
Our corn patch wasn’t as big as yours this year – we ate it all fresh.
…But there’s the land Dad’s using – 400-some stalks of corn planted there, so maybe we’ll get to preserve some when that comes in. 
Creamed corn is yummy! …Have you ever tried freezing the ears whole (shucked and blanched, of course) and putting them straight from freezer into boiling water when you’re ready to eat them? That’s almost as good as fresh. ..ALMOST. Not quite. Nothing’s as good as fresh!!!
I’m so excited that y’all have a blog now. I don’t plan to miss out on a single post.
August 19th, 2009 at 3:21 pm
That’s quite the process! Is the bounty all from your own garden?
August 19th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Great work Neely Team! It’s always fun to eat and process corn from your own garden.
It look like Peter Dutchy isn’t going to make it through the winter.:-)
August 21st, 2009 at 4:04 pm
Bell – I just like that picture of you – yum, yum! In all labour there truly is profit – and the family memories and relationships that I know were built are among the great profits to enjoy!
August 22nd, 2009 at 6:48 am
Aahhh….this brings back so many memories. Darlene, do you remember Dad bringing home the feed sacks of corn and it taking us all day to get it done. It seemed so painfully fun then but would love to have a day like that again.
Love to see the smiles and team work!
August 22nd, 2009 at 12:38 pm
Amber: yes we have tried that, but we don’t have freezer space anymore.
It was good though!
Daniel & James: most of that was from our garden; our neighbor gave us some, too. We thought that was really nice!
Daniel, Sarah, & Kenan: Peter Dutchy is looking pretty sad, but he’s done his job well… and provided lots of memories every time we’ve looked at him!!