Up on this Sunday morning to a not so leisurely morning. We share a field of sweet corn with Aa and Re and he called yesterday and said it was ready to pull so #1 son and d-in-love went with them to the field and pulled a truck load of corn. So today is going to be an "ox in the ditch" Sunday for us as we need to get the corn put up. Hubbie and I got up and got chores done then got some potatoes started for lunch. We had roast beef in the crockpot and I had made a broccoli salad last night and we already had the fresh green beans broke for lunch. We left the potatoes on the stove covered and went over to Aa's house to help shuck all the corn. We had some good help also as the kids jumped right in.
RL had to remove all the corn worms that EL or BB found in their ears because she was the only one not afraid of them.
We got it all shucked by 11:30 and hubbie and I came home to finish lunch while everyone else got things set up for blanching and chilling the corn. We fixed the green beans and cook some of the fresh corn to go with what was already cooked and #1 son's family, #2 son and Tif, daughter and the girls, Aa's family and d-in-love's brother Tim and his 2 boys joined us for lunch. Everyone had a very nice visit and then back to the corn. #1 son was in charge of blanching and putting it into the ice filled coolers alone this year because Aa had hay down and it is supposed to start raining later this evening. D-in-love and hubbie were on cutting the ends of the cobs off and getting the silks off, Re was the runner between the chilling and the bagging and daughter and I were the baggers and sealers. G-son was in charge of all the smaller kids and he did a fantastic job of entertaining them.
We started with corn on the cob because this is what all the kids like and we used all the bags we had and bagged 64 bags.
Daughter needed to go home and get her cakes baked for some deliveries so g-son took over her vacuum sealer and was a big help. Next we started creaming the corn and this was d-in-love and hubbie's new job and Aa made it back to help with this. Re started helping me bag and seal this because there is definitely a learning curve to this because the you can't allow the vacuum sealer to suck the juice out of the bag or it won't seal. We bagged over 100 bags of creamed corn for our freezers and were finished and cleaned up at 7:00 this evening. Whew !!!!! I was so tired by this time that I forgot to take anymore pictures. Hubbie and I came home to get chores done late and then we both crashed tired and sore from using the same muscles over and over today.
Thankful for the ability to work like we did today to be able to stock food up for the coming months and thankful for the bounty the Lord provides for us each year from our garden and fields. God Bless and Good Night
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