Blueberries!

This is worthy of a blog entry--today we picked blueberries for the first time in two years. Leslie switched her hours so that we could pick in the morning. We drove south of Diamond to the blueberry farm owned by friends of ours and picked for about 2 1/2 hours. Everything worked out perfectly. We finished by noon, which is their morning closing time. And we finished just as it started raining. And it was cloudy (but humid) most of the morning.

We picked three buckets, or 13+ quart freezer bags. Ten of them are in the freezer downstairs, but three of them are upstairs in the refrigerator. Leslie plans to make a blueberry-rhubarb pie tonight or tomorrow. And then you got your blueberries on cereal, blueberry pie, blueberry buckle, blueberry muffins, fresh blueberries on ice cream, blueberry sauce, handsful of blueberries--you name it, we'll have it.

Here's an interesting fact. Leslie found out that you can freeze grapes and eat them. We bought some green grapes a couple of weeks ago, and we ate one bagful as usual and she put the other bag in the freezer. While writing this blog, I just had a small bowlful of grapes. After being frozen, they pick off the vine easier, and you get an icy burst of grape flavor when you bite into one. Try that sometime!