The Harvest

We found out who (what) was eating our corn.  Peg went out the other morning and saw something black and fuzzy under the propane tank.  Beulah went over to investigate, realized what it was, and hightailed it out of the area.  She has had other close "encounters" and didn't want to risk another. Rooster had his first "encounter" a minute or two later.  It was not a "direct hit" but he learned something. The black fuzzy critter came out from under the propane tank to reveal the rest of his coat; a white stripe down his back!  Poor Rooster; two baths and counting!  He enters a room and you know he's arrived!
Well we realized if we were going to have any corn left, we needed to harvest it immediately.  So we called in the "laborers" to pick and shuck our crop.

They worked hard and most of the crop was harvested and shucked in short order. When asked if they would remove the corn from the cob, we were informed that "knives are dangerous and we are not allowed to cut anything with them."  An adult was called in for this next step...

After removing the corn from the cobs, we packaged it for freezing.  Below is the 2015 corn crop ready for future enjoyment!

Although our yield was low by most standards, we learned a lot and have big plans for the future!