Blackberry Update

Scott and I had a marvelous time picking blackberries. We plan to go again next weekend as there were a lot more red ones that will be ripened by next weekend. I'm much faster at picking but my childhood was spent in a berry patch of one form or another with my Grandma. In Upstate NY we would forage for berries all the time in the Spring and Summer. I was just trained by a REAL Pro-Berry Picker.

MIne is on the left and Scott's pal is on the right.

I was welled prepared too as I wore jeans tucked into a pair of Scott's socks and wore my steel toed boots. I also wore one of Scott's old long sleeved shirts and my straw hat. I still got caught in the briars a couple times but not nearly as bad as I would have been without the long sleeves. And I didn't suffer any chigger bites... one time suffering with those was enough for a life time. Don't know about chiggers? Google CHIGGERS and be prepared to be grossed out. A lot of people think they actually crawl under your skin but that is not so... just Google them.


I'm thinking about making blackberry jam in the morning; I'm too weary to do it tonight. Even though we were out picking for only about an hour the sun was all ready beating down on us and that always wears me out. It really is something you need to be out doing just as the sun is about to rise. I had to take a nap after we ate lunch. If I get the jam made tomorrow; Monday morning I will make some homemade biscuits and take some butter and jam into work for my co-workers. I know they would enjoy that and we rarely getting the BIG rewards as we leave before they appear so occasionally I like to take things in to "reward US" for our hard work and all we do... it's that Manager inside me that won't completely go away. I can't help but want to celebrate the backbone of the Retail Business.