I just drove 80 miles to get some home grown corn...

[WCGreen]

A very nice drive in the country, a change of pace, a waste of gas but, hey, I can still afford 2.29 per gallon and take a drive out to see what corn looks like before it is put in a bag in the freezer....

It's amazing how much farming goes on just outside of Cleveland....

Up until the late 50's, Cleveland had so much farm activity under glass that it stll qualified as an agricultural county......

All thoe truck farms, greenhouses, are clustered around the south side of Cleveland, a place not to many people living here know about....

A grave yard of broken dreams.........

[Maddy McCall]

1. Whatcha gonna do with that corn?

Eat it on the cob or cut it off and make cream corn?

I like grilled corn on the cob. YUMMY!

[WCGreen]

2. On the grill...

I did the carny thing one summer with this friend of mine back in the 70's. We cut a couple of fifty gallon barrels in half, filled 'em up with charcoal, had a vat of melted butter on the side and cooked corn all day long....

It was fun, drinkin' beer from 10:00 AM to 3:00 AM.....

Those were the days...

Now health codes say you can't cook corn like that anymore and sell it...

Oh well, still, there is nothing better than corn on the grill.....

Secret, we soaked it in sugar water to make it sweeter

[Maddy McCall]

4. Really? You can't grill corn at the fair anymore?

I used to always love getting it there. :(

[WCGreen]

10. Just not dipping it into a vat of hot butter....

And also, the grills have to be gas fed now.....

At least in the four or five counties we use to operate in...

The guy bought a couple of those trailer stands and goes all over the midwest now....

[wtmusic]

3. Ever go exploring abandoned farm houses?

When I retire that's what I want to do all day

[WCGreen]

5. My uncle had a christmas tree farm in backwoods Penn

Mu cousin and I would fill up a canteen, take some PB and Marshmallow sandwhiches with us and take off looking for stuff...

We found this cemetary in the middle of nowhere with dates going back to the late 1700's early 1800's....

Forgotten and overgrown in the middle of a deep woods...

we found some foundations.....

It was like a lost village or something....

I think the water went bad and the people just moved on.....

[Burma Jones]

6. 80 Miles to get fresh corn???

Jeez, I thought you were using code.......

[WCGreen]

11. Nah, just an old fashioned Sunday Drive......

[Lilyhoney]

24. Me too,

:smoke: . Rite now I would drive 80 miles.

[WCGreen]

25. I can get that closer...........

Jeeezzzz I live in the Suburbs

[Lilyhoney]

26. Lucky you.

[enigmatic]

7. I loved going to Port Clinton

heading to East Harbor ST Park and camping there; we used to pass by rows and rows of corn fields that we'd stop by and buy corn from and roast them over the campfire. Man, that was good...

[WCGreen]

9. We went out detroit to Sheffield, turned south

and went out to Oberlin and Wellington....

It was a great drive, lot's of good stuff to look at and it made the Mom in law happy for a change....

I use to head over to Kelly's Island and camp illegaly in the Quarries.....

[enigmatic]

13. Is The Blue Hole still an attraction?

It's in Castalia, I think..

[WCGreen]

14. Oh yea, and the Mistry Mountain......

BTW, did Mrs. MAson teach music

[enigmatic]

15. That's her!

I think she won teacher of the year when I was in her class in the 4th grade; always remembered her horn-rimmed glasses...

[WCGreen]

16. I posted up last night but you didn't respond

I had the best voice in the fifth grade....

We were suppose to sing te Twelve days of Christmas for the show....

I forgot to wear my white shirt.....

She literally was tearing the white shirt off this german kid named homer so I would look good while singing.....

It was me Singing Five Gooolllllddd Ringgggggssssssssss

[enigmatic]

17. hahaha!

She always made me practice that damn flutophone!

[WCGreen]

18. I think that is why there are so many Gay Men in Lakewood

[enigmatic]

19. I can't wait to show my wife da hood...

When we go there in the future......

Time to watch my Saskatchewan Roughriders kick the crap out of the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in CFL football; see ya tonight, bro...

[WCGreen]

20. I'll be there

[Sannum]

8. this is gonna make such a great copycat...

:evilgrin:

[WCGreen]

12. I am so glad to be of service to such a great cause...

Have at it......

Let's see where this can grow

[sakabatou]

21. $2.29? Are you serious?!

It's about $2.69 out here!

[WCGreen]

22. Yea, I paid 1.89 at Costco last week...

[sakabatou]

23. I hate you...