Thorny Situation

So a few days ago a friend and I decided to go Blackberry picking. So we took the kids and met at a park to pick. We have ambitions my friend and I...pies and jam. We are going to pick enough for each of us to walk away with a double batch of blackberry jam and pie filling for two pies. We picked more than what I thought we had. When all was said and done we picked 26 cups of berries...enough for 2 double batches of jam and enough for 1 pie filling. So we will go out again next week and pick more. Really I'm hoping for more berries that just enough for 3 pies. I'm so ambitious...I guarantee I'll be calling another friend and ask her for a refresher course...

So, when we went picking, I told my boys that if they wanted anything blackberry related they would help pick. And help they did. These two were cracking me up, this is Lee with one of his good friends. They were just chugging along and picking the berries. They were talking shop...as in superhero stuff, and now Lee's friend was going to go off to college and he would wait for Lee, cause he's an older 5 and he'll be done first. Then when Lee's done they'll go off and save the world. Then they kept singing songs, some I recognized from VBS, and other's I"m sure were theme songs formed in their heads. They were hysterical! These two guys get to be in the same Kindergarten class together...their poor teacher! ;)Just picking away.Dru is the official bucket holder! He's showing Ms. Wiz (Liz) something.At the end of our picking extravaganza! We picked for about an hour and a half, if I remember correctly! We did good! Lee chose to not be photographed...he was being a pill. Now on to making pie filling and jam! GO Team!

Well I got the berries in the freezer waiting to be made into something delicious! Take care and have a good weekend. We are off to Ilwaco, WA for a night of camping. Frank is going on a charter boat for Salmon fishing. He hopes to catch his limit of two fish...what we'll do with that I don't know (but he's not using my big freezer!). We are still working the last summer's fish! Takers?

Anyway, I hope everyone has a nice weekend, the weather is suppose to brighten up...we'll see!