Corn Harvest ’22

Corn harvest has begun. The weather is beautiful for it. Perfect for the children to get out and play in the grain trailers.

Perfect even for them to have friends over to play in the trailers with them. These things are always more fun with friends. For me especially because it means I don’t need to get in there with them. I had a chance to ride a few rounds in the combine with my husband.

A date!

When we got back to make the last dump the children were waving at us, just as they had done for every other load of corn.

I got out of the combine to let the extra children know their mom was here. Time to get out and head home.

That was when I got the news. One friends shoes were in the trailer!

Ok I could deal with that. We’d go digging, maybe we could find them. But that wasn’t all. Apparently everyone’s shoes were in the trailer! Under the load of corn we had just dumped.

Why hadn’t we stopped dumping corn? Couldn’t we see them waving at us?

Well, yes. We saw the waving. Just like we had seen all the other waving. Why didn’t you guys get the boots picked up instead of waving?

What was there to do but laugh? The boots were all well buried. There was no finding them under a full combine load of corn. We will figure out a way to sort them in the morning.

Boots are one thing. The socks add a whole ‘nother level of difficulty.