Combine Makes Two Wide Swaths; Cobs Fed Through Separator**UPDATED BELOW**

For anyone who missed yesterday's late afternoon update, here it is again, with photos added from the webcam and other sources as they arrive:

After making two passes through the field, the combine operator has determined that, thanks to the heavy precipitation earlier this week, the grounds are too soggy to continue the work today, or Saturday. However, as of 4:10pm, when we type this update, the combine is now in its processing mode, and Not A Cornfield staffers are feeding ears of corn from 30 agriculture bins into one end of the machine, which then sorts, seperates and expels husks and kernels from the far end.

**UPDATE: Word has just arrived that the combine will remain at Not A Cornfield, parked and on-display, all next week. Then, on Monday, January 16 and Tuesday January 17, the remaining 20 or so acres of the cornfield will be harvested by the massive machine. One-hundred schoolchildren are visiting the project grounds this morning. As always, Not A Cornfield is open to the public daily, 6am-8pm.

Combine Arrives; Harvest To Occur January 6th & 7th**UPDATED BELOW**

The Not A Cornfield crop will be harvested today, Friday, January 6 and tomorrow, Saturday, January 7, 2006.**

(The corn in the field has previously been hand-picked by community volunteers as well as not a Not A Cornfield staffers.)

The machine harvesting will be accomplished via a John Deere 9660 Combine that arrived earlier this hour from Tipton, California. The 33-foot-long, 12 1/2-foot-tall, 13 1/2-foot-wide, green-painted machine with a canary yellow racing stripe -- if that word applies to farm work -- and a front wheel six-feet-tall was brought down Interstate 5 on the back of an eighteen-wheeler. Another semi joined the convoy, carrying the combine's accessories, including an 8-row corn head, rollers, feed house, and stalk cutter. Escort vehicles helped guide the big rigs down Alameda Street, onto Baker, and now, onto the art project grounds.

The combine will likely begin progressing through the field at or around 2pm today. It will likely conclude its work tomorrow (Saturday).

Early next week, baling is scheduled to occur.

Also, thousands of the multi-colored ears of corn picked recently from the art project grounds are now hanging on the fence on the east side of the 32-acre site that is the home of the Los Angeles State Historic Park.

Per usual, Not A Cornfield is free-of-charge and open daily to the public, 6am-8pm.

**UPDATE: After making two passes through the field, the combine operator has determined that, thanks to the heavy precipitation earlier this week, the grounds are too soggy to continue the work today, or Saturday. However, as of 4:10pm, when we type this update, the combine is now in its processing mode, and Not A Cornfield staffers are feeding ears of corn from 30 agriculture bins into one end of the machine, which then sorts, seperates and expels husks and kernels from the far end.

Blue Tractors: Last Chance to See

The intense blue illumination that has bathed a pair of Not A Cornfield tractors in the riveting hue, as well as colored thick virtual lines on the surrounding soil, will conclude Wednesday, January 4.

Not A Cornfield's winter constellations, set in the midst of the 32-acre grounds, will remain lit as the Blue Phase continues until the project's end date of March 31, 2006.