On wet cold winter days, like we are having now, was always enjoyable. After finishing morning chores on the weekend, I would sit by the fire in the fireplace and eat fresh parched peanuts My mother kept baked sweet potatoes and peanuts most every day. Some days, if it wasn’t too cold, we would go to the barn and shuck corn. We would save the corn husks to be ground into cow feed. The corn would be shelled off the cobto be ground into cornmeal. I always enjoyed grinding corn for cornmeal. I would bag the meal into different sized bags. I liked the smell of fresh ground meal. The smell was strong as the meal was being ground. For the ones that has never seen corn being ground, I will try to explain the procedure. There are two large thick round granite stones with groves etched into them running from the center to the out side. These stones were enclosed into a box like structure. The bottom stone rotated by a belt driven by a pulley on the tractor. The top stone had a hole in the center. This is for the corn to be fed for the grinding. The top stones was suspended so that you could raise or lower it to grind the meal from a fine meal to a coarse meal. As the corn was being ground, the meal would be thrown from the rotation of the bottom stone. The bottom stone rotated at a certain speed to keep the meal from getting hot. The structure that caught the meal thrown from the bottom stone would be on an angle that directed the meal to fall into a large wooden box. A shelf was on one one end to sit the bags being filled. A large hand scoop was used to fill the bags.