Our neighbors dropped us off some sweet corn this afternoon. Talk about a surprise and trying to find out how we can work it up really fast. Mom was the one who answered the door to him and like the green beans from last year he gave us quite a load of work.
Work, we are not strangers to being former farmers. Although, is there such a thing, a former farmer. Once a farmer, always a farmer right! We used to work up quarts and gallons of sweet corn every fall while we were farming. All five of us would help we had a whole process a cutter, a cutter board. Everything needed for the process we had it. All the work was absolutely worth it when everyone was drooling for our creamed corn at family and church gatherings.
Earlier today my back was giving me troubles. So when this happened I wasn’t sure how it was going to work out. Especially when Mom and Uncle Tony went to church. However, Mom wouldn’t be much help anyway due to her fractured finger. So I kind of forced my younger brother to help me out and thankfully he did. I know I couldn’t have finished as quickly without his help.
I had even brought my laptop out to watch something while we were working. It took us just about an hour to shuck these two full crates of corn. I knew ‘MASH’ is my brother’s favorite show to watch but the sun glared too much so we basically heard it for an hour. Our cat was also trying to get in on the fun. In one of the photos my glasses were falling off, sometimes it’s hard to keep them up. I look weird in that photo!
We had already worked up our corn from our garden and it didn’t end up being very much. So this will at least double if not triple what we have already frozen. This was really a Godsend. Not long ago in Sunday School Nancy had said their tomatoes weren’t very good just small ones. We didn’t have a banner year either, but we had bigger ones so a few days after she said that Mom and I gave them a bag of some of our better tomatoes.
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