Guys, I was in a corn playhouse today. I’m not kidding.
We went out to Hill Ridge Farms. Again. It is SUCH a fun place. I cannot stress enough what a cool place this is to have a family picnic. But back to the Corn Playhouse.
You know those play thingys they have at McDonalds with the plastic balls in them? Well the corn playhouse is a countrified version of that. This is a play thingy full of CORN. I like the countrified version best.
Would you look at all that corn!! The children played. And played. And played.
I stepped in and SUNK. Look how deep the corn is! My sister said she wanted one of these corn playhouses at home. Come to think of it, it would be nice. Hubby, can I ask you for another teeny-tiny favor? 
Just like our last visit to Hill Ridge Farms, we were there today to meet with my mother and sister and niece. My sister lives out of state, so I don’t get to see her nearly enough. Two cousins. Same size, same age, much alike. One belongs to me. One belongs to my sister.
We celebrated my niece’s birthday. The girls were sure to get all the icing off of every single candle.
Then we decided to pan for gems. Fun stuff! First you shake the sand out of your sieve.
Then place your sieve into the running water.
Then you look through the stones in your sieve.
I think I found something!!
If you take your sieve out into the sun, the colors of any gems show up better.
We found a couple of types of quartz.
John found a really large peridot.
It was a fun day. I got to play in corn and I came home with several bags of gems, but I enjoyed more than anything spending the day with my favorite girls in the world!
Lynn
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I love the corn house, what a fun idea…
But the first thing I thought of was corn in ones ears…
Louise
Oh, Louise, true! I didn’t even think about that, but of course our kids are older so my worries are beginning to shift. I can’t imagine letting a toddler loose in there!! Yikes!
Lynn
Looks great! C would totally love the corn playhouse! I’d really like to try and get there sometime this spring.
Emily, I thought about that! Are you up to going out there some day in the next month? I don’t mind driving and the girls would LOVE it!!
Lynn
Your two favorite girls look so much alike they could be sisters! What a blessing to have a cousin so close in age.
How fun!
My P wishes to see her cousins more as well.
Dear Lynn,
Wow, think how exfoliating all that corn would be! You’d have beautiful skin. As for toddlers in corn, eek! Corn in the nostrils, mouth, ears, diaper, scary!
Love,
Marqueta
This looks like a lot of fun!