Back in Business!

It has been awhile since I even looked at this blog...or remembered that I had one...but as this is the first summer I have had off since before college I believe, I have quite a bit of time on my hands.  Time to get back to work on this thing!

Hmm...since 2010...

that's a very long and detailed story that in hindsight now I wish I had written about somewhere...like maybe the stack of journals sitting about 5 feet away from me, all brand new, bought with the intention of recording great happenings in my life...all still in the same stack-blank!

We have now been frequenting Farmer's Markets, and our favorite is on the PSU campus on Saturdays.  We nearly missed it today based on a very lazy person who would not get ready for the day (sadly this was me, not Josh!)  In the nick of time however we made it and got some yummy things for the week.  

On a whim we thought..."Why not get some blueberries and raspberries!".  So out to Scholls we went where there are plentiful U-picks of berries for only $1.25/pound...a steal!

Oh...Josh gets to carry they, yay!

I'm so good at picking berries!

See!  I have so many!

So here we are picking berries...as you can see we picked many.  Correct my math if I'm wrong, but the woman told us we had picked 5 pounds of each, which should according to Josh and I's math skills (his are better than mine, but I can do the basics) we should have paid  $12.50...well we paid $8.75, even after we said, "Are you sure?"  So I guess we made out with a steal!  And now I have blueberries for blueberry pancakes tomorrow and raspberries for freezer jam on Tuesday, yay! :)  

This whole picking experience hearkened me back to the days of the Honcoop's raspberry field.  Every summer my mom and I went to pick raspberries with Leslie and Caitlin...sometimes Jess when we were little.  Caitlin, Jess and I would play house for hours on tend while my mom and Leslie did the actual work.  But we used raspberries for everything...the food, the water, the desserts, etc.  So by the end of our house playing we were all ridiculously sick from eating massive amounts of raspberries.  I had forgotten how wonderful they smell in the hot sun, how careful you have to be when picking them, and that amazingly sweet but tart at the same time taste when you put the first one in your mouth!  Yum!!!!!!!!!!

Delicious Blueberries from our bucket!

Raspberries from MY bucket!