Today we took the girls down by the Orting river and picked large amounts of blackberries. I'm quite certain that the girls ate more than they picked, but that's what childhood is for, right? We picked so many that I froze some, made two blackberry pies, plus a rather large blackberry cobbler. Here's our day in pictures. And yes, it is delicious.
Today I was awakened to the not-so-delightful sounds of enormous dump trucks, (you know the ones that are a dump truck and they haul a trailer behind?) dumping truck load after truck load of dirt behind my house. Then the most incredibly noisey and squeaky (do they not grease the tracks on those things??) grader began shoving the dirt and rocks around. I had to fight the urge to throw a can of WD40 over the fence to the driver. It wasn't even eight in the morning. It wasn't even 7:30 yet. So I reluctantly arose from my bed and cleaned up the kitchen. After it was spotless, I went back upstairs to my freeze-zone (the only room in the house with AC) to do some online banking and make calls to check on medical bills, etc. As I was finishing up, in walks my husband! At first I had a moment of Oh-no-he's-lost-his-job terror. Then it passed after he smiled. Seems they ran out of work for the day. Odd, but then that's Boeing. So hubby was roped into going school cloth
They're just coming out here. My mum makes a mean blackberry and apple jam.
ReplyDeleteOh man! I miss the blackberries!! I remember how they grew wild along the road in Vancouver. sigh. The frozen kind just isn't the same...
ReplyDeleteDon't your kids EVER go to school?
ReplyDeleteOur portion's in the post, right?
ReplyDeleteOoh Richard, I'd love to have her recipe!
ReplyDeleteSteve, our school doesn't start here until September. We're still on summer break.
YUM! My Grandpa used to make homemade blackberry syrup to put on our "hot cakes" when we'd come to visit. MMMMMMMM
ReplyDeletejust coming on here! you can tell from all the purple strafing runs that the starlings have made over my driveway. zeroes! coming out of the sun! AIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
ReplyDeleteThanks for reminding me that the berries are out there. I forgot that was on our list of things to do for the summer. Now if it would just stop raining.
ReplyDeleteI'll try and find it for you Pam
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