The cold and wet weather Sault Ste. Marie has been hit with lately is making one particular farmer very happy.
'Farmer Bob' is gearing up for this year's corn maze season and he's taken a patriotic approach in honour of Canada's 150th birthday.
"We wanted to celebrate the 150 anniversary of Canad, so we put three logos into the maze and the logos represent the three founding nations, the Indigenous, the French and the English," explained Robert Cuerrier, known as 'Farmer Bob' to people in the Sault.
It doesn’t matter that Farmer Bob and Jordan Lanktree designed the maze, at times even they still get lost.
In order to make sure the design perfectly fit into his four and a half acre maze, an engineering firm lent a helping hand.
"They come out, they design the maze, to fit the field and they will come out and it’s a big connect the dot puzzle, maybe 400 points. When the corn is this high they will locate two points and I come along and spray paint them," Farmer Bob explained.
"Compared to last year, this year was exceptionally difficult. Lots of angles, hard to tape, hard to cut, hard to clean up, long trails," added Jordan Lanktree.
The maze takes over 40 days of hard manual labour to be built and the work is spread out over four months.
Mother Nature also has to help, by providing enough rain.
Farmer Bob said this is the 17th year he has made a corn maze and on a scale of one to 10 of how difficult this year’s maze is; he rates it an eight.
"This one involves a lot of walking," he said.
"What happens to folks is, you can have a navigator and they can be pretty good, but somebody says something to you and you lose concentration for a second and you have to back up you don't know where you are."
Farmer Bob said there are six different stations people need to find in order to complete the maze and he adds it should take most people 45 minutes to an hour to finish it.
