Thursday, September 23, 2010

Keeping Busy

being watched

Before I start on the end of yesterday, today a rather LARGE truck arrived next door to pick up the tree trunk left from yesterday's entertainment.  Yes, I watched it being loaded.  Yes, it was fun watching.  If people can't find fun in some notsoeveryday stuff, I don't care.  I can.
a wagon load of Marini Farm pumpkins

mom trying to find a good one
Yesterday afternoon the girls trekked to Marini Farm in Ipswich to buy pumpkins.  Actually it was my mom that wanted to buy two, then 'A' decided she needed one as well.  I like Marini Farm.  It's just a cool place with good food and yes, entertainment.  The corn maze is now open and I expect 'A' and I will traipse through it again this year.  Maybe I'll even take my camera so that you can see what it's like to be lost in a corn field.  This year should be better than last...we now know how the 'game' part of it works for 'collecting' rewards, so to speak.

9 comments:

Whac-a-Scribbs said...

We're talkin' serious Children of the Corn horror-movie stuff now! I'm gonna worry about what terrors confront you and A. in the maze until you tell us both of y'all survived....

Ooooh, it's so sad that you watched the tree-lopping continue. You're giving the nutball neighbor something to talk about, anyway. I bet you're entranced by small, shiny objects, too!

deb said...

ehhhh, she wasn't even home.

I'm going to have to check the schedule for times for the maze. We prefer weekdays even though it's only after school hours...fewer people...easier to get lost!

Bernard said...

Jan (California) has been talking about a 'Corn Maze'. It's got me wondering. Corn field here are only about 3 feet deep so I guess you are meaning what I call 'Sweetcorn' or 'Corn-on-the-Cob'.
However I have never come across a maze in the corn. Does the farmer plant it that way? Or is it trampled down later?
How high is the corn? Can you see over it?
Just curious. :)

Helen McCookerybook said...

What amazing photographs, straight out of a Grimms fairy tale!

deb said...

Yes, Bernard, it's sweet corn. Planted as normal in rows covering very large fields. After picking, instead of cutting down the entire field of stalks, a maze is cut/plowed under into it. I'll publish the details of this one after we've done it!

cornball scribbs said...

Is the corn as high as an elephant's eye yet?

deb said...

Asian or African?

scribbs, loves musicals said...

I dunno...which kind lives in Oklahoma?

deb said...

I'm thinking Ali, the Persian, brought 'em over...so Asian.