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In reply to the discussion: Romney tours a corn field in Iowa - pics [View all]southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)78. He looks so awkward doesn't he? I remember the first time I planted corn and my
mother-in-law showed me and as it would grow we go out and pull the weeds. Then we put fertilizer on them. Then when you have to pull the suckers out that grows by them. I didn't know that. At first I was cleaning the weeds out from around them. My mother-in-law laughed and asked me what I was doing. I told her weeding. She said I was weeding around the sucker that had to be pulled. We laughed our heads off.
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what is it with these phallic photo ops, all of the candidates and their corndogs and so on
Voice for Peace
Aug 2012
#76
I was hoping it would be like "Field Of Dreams" - he would keep walking and just disappear . . .
hatrack
Aug 2012
#25
They lost their jobs after Bain bought the ball field and sold it off in pieces to the highest
yellowcanine
Aug 2012
#57
That corn sucks! What horrible looking ears! Is Iowa in the drought as well?
sinkingfeeling
Aug 2012
#47
Picture #1. "Hey guys, this is the first place we've stopped in six months,
Hubert Flottz
Aug 2012
#48
Hey Mittens... if you like corn, I have a new candy bar with corn and peanuts for you to try.....
Erose999
Aug 2012
#65
He looks so awkward doesn't he? I remember the first time I planted corn and my
southernyankeebelle
Aug 2012
#78