I heard a great clatter
and sprang to the porch to see what was the matter.
It was three Amish boys with a quick little trotter....oh, heck, enough of that nonsense..I'm too lazy to rhyme today.
Yeah, three Amish lads with a wagon drawn by a snappy little brown horse showed up peddling sweet corn last night. We have been been
It was clearly sweet corn, so at a mere two dollars a dozen I bought a bag.
The cheerful youth in charge of sales then asked if the "old man" that his dad had met previously when looking at the hay loader was around. He wanted to sell him some corn too. I explained that said old man was my husband and would be eating the corn I had just bought.
The boy ducked his head a little as if thinking and then said, "If you'd like I'll give you another half dozen for free."
I agreed that this sounded like a real good deal. If I had had more money on me I would actually have bought a couple more dozen for the freezer but I don't trot around the farm with much. He chose another small bag of fat green ears and said sheepishly, "If we go back home with this corn we have to can it all tonight and we don't want to do that."
Kids...guess they are the same all over. I laughed and thanked them and they spun that little brown around like an English kid doing donuts with his truck and were off down the driveway with a rumble of heavy wheels.
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LOL
Poor kid probably felt embarrassed about calling the Boss and "old man" and, learning you were the wife of that "old man," was trying to make amends. (That and he really didn't want to do much canning last night!)
I had to laugh! Too cute!
COOL!!!!!
Mappy
if you want i can whip some real doughnuts out there for you, :P
Funny story and a nice little window into the life you lead. Now do YOU have to do all the canning? Or freezing? That corn looks really sweet and fresh. Enjoy!.
Two bucks for thirty ears? For sweet corn? Plus an unintended jab at the Boss and you're expected to buy more? You're kidding, right?
Well this would be a steal in the West. Except for the remark that is.
I wonder what the parents would think knowing their kids didn't want to do a chore. You might have gotten a few ears out of it if you dropped that in their lap.
Bamboozling, er um, persuasion goes both ways.
Sweet corn! Yum!
A wonderful story, really like to see capitalism in action, and find out that it has nothing to do with making money, just having a good time dodging canning chores.
It looks tasty! We had some the other night but it looked far better than it tasted (sigh) maybe the local stuff will be read soon.
for whatever reason, i haven't found GOOD sweet corn down here. even the stuff that they swear is sweet corn, that looks like sweet corn, tastes like field corn. yuck.
i brought some back from ohio after vacation, invited friends over, and ruined them forever for the "sweet" corn available here.
and now i'm jonesin' for more. that looks YUMMY!
Joated, It was pretty funny. And I was quite convinced that canning was real low on those boys' lists. lol
Sara, thanks
Matt, it was
Alan, you know exactly where I stand on that subject
WW, I froze most of it. It was pretty mature but it tasted good anyhow. We like corn chowder and it will be perfect for that some cold winter day
Steve, they were cute. It was fun to talk to them...and the corn was....okay...not great, but okay. Ours is done so....
Jeffro, yes indeed. I can never get enough of it.
Earl, they really made my day. The corn wasn't exactly the best we ever had...a couple of ears were quite bad. However, I broke the bad ones into pieces and fed them to my "babies", some heifers I am feeding the tail ends of my garden stuff to, and they were quite pleased.
Linda, it wasn't too bad. A little tough and old, but the ears were real full. I froze most of it for chowder.
Ericka, what a shame! You can get all kinds here, from old fashioned tough and not as tasty to the best SE varieties. We grow Bodacious, a really nice SE we get at the local Agway store. It tastes good even when it dries up and dents. Alas it is all gone for this year.
Your photography made the corn look wonderful! You also gave me a nice happy chuckle this morning.
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
Perfect. :0)
Linda, thanks! Glad you got a laugh out of it. I did too..those little boys just made my day
Cathy, thanks!
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