Bounty is in the eye of the beholder!

As I wrote in my last posting, we returned from our trip in time to harvest the corn, that is the good news, the bad news is that we all came down with a virus that included high fevers for several days. Since it was in the upper 90's here, I couldn't let my little farmers attend to their harvest for a while.
This delay led us to a trio of "Good News/Bad News" stories

Farmer Liana's story
Good news - Liana's crop of "Ruby Red Sweet Corn" was still plump on the stalk when she recovered!

Bad news - the plump little ears were a maximum of 4 inches long.

Good news - the farmer in this case is only 4 years old.

Result= a happy farmer who was incredibly impressed by the bounty of her crop.

Farmer Ella's Story
Good News - Some of Ella's ears of corn reached the epic measurement of 6 inches long!Bad news - Some of Ella's ears of corn were less that an inch long and had only 3 kernals on them.

Good news - the kernals she had on the tiny cobs were very sweet

Bad news - most of Ella's corn was a bit shrivelled on the cob when we shucked it.
Good news - Ella is really excited to dry the corn all the way and grind it into cornmeal.
Bad news - she can't decide what she should make with her cornmeal.

Good news - she has a lot of recipes to choose from.

Result = A happy farmer

And little farmer Nina you ask? Well it is all good news to her, she got to go outside, pick things, eat things, peel things and throw things. Life is good when you are almost two!