Fall is in the air and that is corn picking time!

Having fun on the corn wagon

Fall was one of the best times of the year.  Corn picking was great.  No dust, no heat and it was always fun filling the corn crib with cobs.  Shelling corn was also a fun time as the golden kernels would fill the wagon or truck and the brown rusty looking cobs would pile high on the ground.  As I would watch the cobs pill up I would think of the fall church festival.  Dad would sometimes give a nickel for several buckets of cobs that were brought into the house to burn in the cast iron stove. Those nickels would be used for ice cream cones at the church festival or saved up to purchase baseball cards!  Mom would also get Dad to put squash seeds in the corn planter so when we picked corn we would also harvest nice yellow and green squash!  I would love to have a picture of Dad's corn field.  He would "check it" so the rows were straight in several directions.  A great picture that would be!  Also after the corn was picked we would string a one wire electric fence around the field and put the cows out to eat the corn that was on the ground.
Fall was also a time to harvest millet.  Again it usually was cool, no dust or itchy thistle flowers in the air.  I do remember one year there was so much rain that the millet was harvested with snow on the ground after a deep frost.  And of course there was the time Dad was cutting the millet and drove too close to the slough.  He buried the Ford tractor up to the axle.  It took many many links of chain, several days and the M tractor to rescue the Ford from its muddy dangerous predicament.   The millet was also fun to play in as it was soft to sit in or dig your toes into the seeds.  Given all the fall fun, along with the slough burns, I miss it but would not want to go back to the past!!! 
Enough of this rambling as my FP was history hours ago.