Clint Black is the headliner at the concert on Saturday night and we're all looking forward to that!!! We were driving the streets of Grand Junction yesterday and I saw this billboad....I had to take a picture, as I'd never seen a billboad for the Corn Festival before! WOW! We've hit the big time!! LOL You have to remember that it's the one day of the year when our little town of 1,100 people swells to tens of thousands! Pretty exciting stuff for us, though we're also pretty glad when things go back to normal!!
For about two weeks now, I've been seeing the trucks full of corn, coming down out of the fields on their way to the packing plant, across the highway! It's always exciting to see, as it's the area's major crop and income! Jen had asked us to bring them a case of corn (which is 48 ears, for those who don't know!), so that she could freeze it for the winter. We stopped yesterday morning on our way up to their house, at the packing plant to pick up the case of corn....picked just the day before! Yummy!!!
Here is a stack of the plastic trays of corn that they bring down from the fields. And that's a giant mountain of ice in the background! They produce ice 24/7 to keep up with the demands of packing the corn for shipping. They pack the 48 ears of corn in each case with a generous amount of crushed ice to keep it cold in transit. From this packing plant, they ship OUR corn to grocery stores, all over the country! WOW!
I took a picture of James standing in front of the ice mountain, so that you can see how huge it really is.......
4 comments:
gosh that festival comes around quick!!! Enjoy.
How exciting...and to think I used to gripe about picking 20 dozen a day to sell when we were kids!! I wish we could get fresh sweet corn here...Last year we found a local farmer that was selling sweet corn and it was good but this year it was awful...probably due to the drought, ugh!
Enjoy some for me :o) Looks like the festival is going to be a blast!!
Where to begin! I enjoyed looking at these pictures so much tonight and reading all about the happenings! I can't wait to be down there this weekend for the corn festival!! And I was very impressed by James and his recorder video!! He is a neat kid! It is so funny, I was looking at that picture of Dad without the mustache while I was talking to him tonight and I couldn't quite figure out what the heck was wrong (I wasn't reading because I was talking). Then I went back to read all of your comments and the light went off. In 26 years I don't think I can remember this either!! :) Anyway, I truly enjoyed looking at the page!! Can't wait to see you guys! Love you all!
Sheesh Lenore I love the new header photo...I could sit here and stare at it all day...I'll blame you when the house doesn't get clean, lol! So where are the photos and video from the weekend, lol...I'm waiting :o)
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