So...our new favorite evening outing....berry pickin! We've been keeping busy with blackberries and blueberries! The past few evenings we've dashed out the door as soon as we finish eating supper to head out for berry picking (its entirely too hot in the mornings or afternoons). It started out with picking blackberries when we went to visit Uncle Roy and Aunt Jane one evening. You can't even call what they have a garden. It's a garden on steroids!! But, anyway, they literally have rows of blackberries that go on forever and can never be picked clean. Aunt Jane picked 175 lbs in one morning. She's selling them to a winery by the way. Once we had plenty of blackberries in the freezer, we moved on to blueberries. Come to find out, we have a wonderful blueberry farm about 3 miles from our house. So, we loaded up the boys and some buckets and headed out. We soon learned that blueberry picking doesn't go quite as quick as blackberries. We had 10lbs of blackberries in about 20 minutes. We picked a little over 5lbs of blueberries in about an hour. So, we went back the next night to get some more, but ran short on time and only got about 2 more pounds. Since we eat alot more blueberries than blackberries, I would imagine we will make another trip or two to the farm. I can't even tell you how much fun Charlie has had picking. It's such a game for him...picking for a few minutes and then running to check the status of Momma's bucket and then Daddy's bucket, and then telling me where he's going to start picking next! And every night, there seems to be an unspoken contest to see who can pick the biggest berry! I think Jason won last night! Who will be next??
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