When the Big Coon Walks

[Jolly]

Hit the sweetcorn patch at daylight this morning. I didn't want to go back to pull nubbins, so if it looked kinda like an ear, this big coon grabbed it.

Once again, Merit produced well for us...we tried to give some away, but it's like trying to give fish away (if it's cleaned they want it, if not they don't).

All in all, a good day...

[Danaus29]

I wish I lived closer to you. I would pay you for some fresh sweet corn, even in the husks.

My dd likes the nubbins, she eats them cob and all.

[pamda]

I can not figure people out! I would be so pleased if someone offered me fresh corn, and shucking is a nice pass time far as I am concerned.

[ronbre]

i also would have taken all you had given me...but not the huge coons, we have them too

[highlands]

Apparently coon are particularly delicious. Our dogs ate all the ones within about a mile of us. No coon here for years... decades maybe. Unfortunately porcupines taste just as good.

[oregon woodsmok]

Seriously? You can't give sweet corn away?

I know about the fish, though. Nobody will take whole fish, only fillets. I'm always surprised they don't expect me to cook it and serve it, too.

I was once talking to a person with an apricot tree that couldn't give the apricots away. I really found that one mystifying. Maybe you have to cook it into jam, first, before anyone will take it for free?

[YuccaFlatsRanch]

Couldn't give away picked wild blackberries when I lived in Edmonds, WA.

[ronbre]

hey you guys, I'll take the corn, fish, blackberries, apricots, all of it, bring it on

[Jolly]

Originally Posted by oregon woodsmok

Seriously? You can't give sweet corn away?

I know about the fish, though. Nobody will take whole fish, only fillets. I'm always surprised they don't expect me to cook it and serve it, too.

I was once talking to a person with an apricot tree that couldn't give the apricots away. I really found that one mystifying. Maybe you have to cook it into jam, first, before anyone will take it for free?

Seriously.

I finally found somebody to take it after calling half the community...but in the end, the right person got about a half pickup load. I was kinda ashamed of myself, not thinking of this man, first.

He's a gentleman that never got past the sixth grade in school, but has worked hard all of his life to have what he has. He married a bit late in life and put his only son through college, chasing scrap metal and doing any odd job that people would give him.

He was happy to get the corn and I was happy to give it.

[ginnie5]

I too love free food! If someone offered it to me you better believe I'd take it! I'd even go pick it.