Which means we spend several hours "puttin' up corn" in the summertime to make sure we've got plenty of delicious corn-eatin' to get us through the winter.

Kim is the corn grower and tends to the heavy and hot pots.

Boiled corn cooling in ice water.  We all know that corn MUST be properly cooled to keep well (a lesson that Kim continually pounds into our heads).

Dana and I are the corn cutters...

...and the children help bag it up for the freezer.  It's a team effort.

Brushing up on their writing skills before first grade starts this week...

I love elementary children's writing!

We grow them up gorgeous, smart, and strong here on the Gray compound.

Corn-fed.