PAPPER BAGED CORN

While coming home from my daughter's house I saw a lady in her garden putting paper bags over her big ears of corn. Now that is something I sure have never seen. Why was she doing this I wondered. Then I remembered what kind of corn it was. It looked like hickory cane corn.
Now we all know just how those birds love to feed off of it. I thought I would raise me some last year to have some home ground meal. I worked so hard with the stuff. So I ask someone when is it ready to grind. When the corn falls backwards down on the stalk.
So I kept waiting and waiting then one day I looked and it had fell down. They said to let the first frost hit it. I forgot about it until the frost did come and went to gather it and guess what. There was just cobs hanging there. The birds had really gotten them a good big meal. But I know they get hungrey just like we all do.
So back to the paper bags. That had to be why she was putting the bags over the corn to keep the birds from eating it as there were not that many rows of it.
 Oh well, we are never to old to learn something new. I just wish I had done mine that way. But if the bags got wet what then. Maybe she was just trying to catch some beetles. But in a up side down bag. lol.
If we all go by gardens and see bags waveing at us then we know there has not been any alians landed just corn people. It would be nice to paint a happy face on the bags and they sure would look like faces.
I went to the Amish and bought some home ground meal. It sure does make a different tasting cornbread. My aunt made some and it was almost to salty you could not hardly eat it but it was still good.
 From now on I will just stick to the baged cornmeal. I saw some King Authurs flour and meal and everyone talks about how good it is. When I looked at a 5 lb. bag I about fell over. It is like buying a steak with the price but I guess you just pay for what you get. One of these days I am going to break down and buy me a bag. To me nothing can beat the Three Rivers cornmeal. Now we can't buy it anywhere and my cornbread just don't taste the same without it.
We all have our likes and dislikes and sometimes when you hubby says this just don't taste right it is not our fault but having to go from somthing you rely on for so many years to something new is somthing else.