The Corn Maze

The Dog Walker is our resident “decorations” man. He loves holidays and Halloween is one of his favorites. A few years ago my sweetie turned all the holiday decorating over to him. You all know that the Dog Walker is an amazing guy! I don’t know how much you know about autistics, but when they focus on something, nothing else gets done until that particular task is finished. And he can drive us absolutely nuts during the process!

My sweetie is adamant that we can not decorate for Halloween until October 1. So this weekend (once all the rain was over), the Dog Walker dragged out all the Halloween boxes and got busy. The kids were out of school on Friday because of Parent/teacher conferences so he got started bright and early. My sweetie is also off on Fridays so we headed out to run some errands. We reminded the Dog Walker that he could use the corn stalks that had been cut and dried already, but that some of them were still growing in the garden.

After a fun trip to Kohl’s, we returned to the house. The first thing we noticed was the 20 or so fence posts stuck in the front lawn. This didn’t surprise us because we knew that the Dog Walker’s favorite set up was his own corn maze. What did surprise us was the fact that tied around half the posts were green corn stalks! I walked up to one and pulled off a mostly developed ear of corn. My sweetie became a bit unglued when he realized that most of our corn patch was now tied to posts in the front yard.

We headed through the house and into the backyard and caught him with another armful of green stalks. “You weren’t supposed to cut down the good corn!” I accused. He dropped his bundle to the ground, clearly stressed by my tone of voice. “But Mom,” he responded, “I harvested the corn first.” Sure enough about 3 dozen tiny ears of corn were neatly piled in a bowl on my kitchen counter. My sweetie picked a couple more from the front yard and added them to the pile.



Other than his Marching Band competition Saturday and church on Sunday, the Dog Walker didn’t do anything else but work on his display. As you can see, it was fabulous as usual. Just wait till you see what he does for Christmas!