He may have been born in California, but Griffin is definitely Minnesotan now. When I asked him about the cool lego train he built today, he explained that it was a “Corn Weeder.” Further discussion revealed that he was talking about a combine harvester. I didn’t even know what a combine was until a few years ago when Sarah explained that she drove one for a summer job long ago. Griffin is way ahead of me!
I love the pic of Griffin and his ‘corn weeder’ next to the photo of a real combine harvester. That’s a complex machine he made and I am convinced that it could work.
Our family story about combine harvesters goes back to a Sunday family car ride out in the NJ countryside in the 1950’s when there were still farms in the “Garden State”. Bill was about 3 or 4. It was autumn. All was quiet until he pointed at a wheat field and exclaimed, “Oh, look! A concubine!”
Awesome story!
Griffin has since called it a “Combine Train.”