One of my favorite things to do is berry picking! And lately I have been doing that a lot. I went Blackberry picking twice (they literally grow like weeds around here- so they're free!) and I went blueberry picking. Our house also has two apple trees that produced some apples so I took advantage of those too! I feel kind of domestic because I made freezer jam with the blackberries and froze the blackberries and apple slices for future goodies! Although, I don't think freezing makes the best food storage because if our power went out we'd be sunk. Oh well. At least we can make blueberry muffins and apple crisp until that happens- knock on wood.
Since we've been enjoying the fruits of nature :), we thought it would be fun to go "camping". So we set up our tent in the backyard. Grant had a blast, but we only ended up "sleeping" in the tent for about 45 min. because the
air mattress went flat. I know we're not very tough, but when your 7 months pregnant and you know there is a nice comfy bed 50 feet away- why sleep on the ground? So we "camped" on our bed. Since Grant doesn't know what camping is- he thought what we did was still super fun.
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Grant thought running around in the tent was the best.
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3 comments:
Oh how I miss picking blackberries on the side of the road! I refuse to spend like $4 on about 20 berries here at the store. So ridiculous. Zach talked me into buying a $6 container of raspberries from a fruit stand because he said he missed picking the ones at my parents' house.
Blackberry jam is the BEST! I love it! I didn't get to picking blackberries this year, but made some raspberry jam and strawberry jam...so maybe next year! You guys are so fun to go camping in the back yard...we have been wanting to do the same thing, but have been too lazy to actually do it!
I would consider 45 minutes on an air mattress a success! But I'm kind of a camping wimp. I can't believe you only have 2 months left until baby number 2! How exciting!
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