labor day

Harvesting the garden is never an activity that I look forward to, but it always ends up being such an enjoyable family time to me! In fact I think everyone in the family enjoys it.  This year, it was raining, so everyone ( but Pace and I who watched from the porch) gathered the corn as quickly as possible:

and brought it to the shelter of the front porch to husk it...

and to sample some raw corn, in Nolan's case:

We had an enjoyable time just working and talking:

and then when the husking got monotonous the races began:

even Abram worked to the finish:)

 and then we went in and set up an assembly line to wash, cook, cut and bag the corn.

We told the kids when we started that we would hurry and get it done and then the rest of the day we would watch movies - because that's the kind of day that it felt like with the rain and all.  Turns out that it took almost the whole day and we only got one movie in...just before bed-time...perfect:)