This past week has been really windy, and the day before the wind picked up the nearby farmer harvested his cornfield. So our yard, along with all our neighbors, have had cornstalk pieces in them. Today we raked it out from around the house and gardens where it piled up and I made the kids a cornstalk pile.

They threw the stalk pieces around, jumped into them and all around enjoyed their substitute leaf pile.

And tomorrow we'll still have to pick them all up and get them to the compost. At least we had fun with them today.