Hello there!  Nice cool evening tonight, will be crisp already for sleeping.  I can handle that.  Love to have the a/c off and the windows open, nice fresh air to sleep in!  The last couple of days we have gone to several different areas with the canoe and done some blueberry picking!  We ended up with about 20 cups!
It took me about 3 hours to pick through them all ( I don't like to have stems or dried up little ones) last night.  Today I cooked and canned up some preserves.  They tasted real good even though they were warm.  Now I want to get some more to freeze up to have some this winter. 
The Honey really likes to go out through the woods to travel.  We were on some pretty rough dirt roads (my poor car!) to get to a couple of ponds.  We got to see some wild life along the way.  You know, a turkey is a pretty ugly bird! 

 

So we finally get to the pond and I was in heaven!  There were a lot of berries to be picked!  Out and around the edges of the islands, one of them we got onto land and continued picking.  My poor arms and legs were so scratched up! 

After getting every thing all picked clean last night, my back & shoulders were killing me.  Today I made the preserves and a coffee cake.  Both came out well I think.  I will get those 2 recipes on here real quick.  Here are a couple of shots to see what a beautiful day it was for picking and being out on a pond with The Honey. 

 

Nothing like fresh picked berries!  So much better than buying them at the grocery store.  It is a lot of work associated with the picking, cleaning, cooking and canning.  But they are so worth it!  I do want to get some more berries and also want to get some black berries.  That will be the next adventure, to go & find them.  Time for bed, I just wanted to drop in and say hi all.  Have a good evening!