Corn

Today, February first, Charlotte came to me with the request if we could please go out to the garden and retrieve the any ears of Indian corn that had grown this past summer.  Last night we had had a snow and the garden was under a blanket of white, but I had been putting her off for some time to do this, so I told her we could this afternoon.  At 4 pm we donned our coats and gloves and braved the five degree temps and wind and found one stalk of corn above the snow.

Charlotte carefully pulled back the husks on the ear.

She was absolutely thrilled to find rows of beautiful kernels of corn.  Shades of maroon, stripes and creams.  The whole ear was almost filled-out end-to-end.  Pretty good for the 12 hills of corn she, Annie and Lydia had planted back in June.

When the stalks had made tassels and the silks were emerging from the ears, we had talked about how all it worked together in an amazing chain of events.  It was really neat to see these results.  I'm thinking I was just about as amazed as Charlotte!  Our Lord's creation is just thrilling.

Problem solved!

Good neighbors of ours have been sharing dead trees from a shelter belt near their home for firewood.  Problem is that most of the trees are up on a hill quite a ways from where we load the pickup.  We had been using a wheelbarrow and a good bit of manpower (girl-power actually, see earlier post) to haul down the cut pieces of firewood.  We thought maybe a better plan would be to move larger pieces down the hill and then cut them into stove-sized chunks down by the pickup.  A little tinkering resulted in the wood cart.  Watch the video here to see what we were able to create.  And lately, we found it works pretty darned well in the snow!  Happy New Year!

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