Saturday May 28, 2016

ive been wanted to take Selah June to pick blueberries.  Ab asked me to go a few weeks back, and I couldn’t break away from work.  Jeremy has been watching the website of the local blueberry farm to see when the next round of berries became ripe enough for the owners to open up the farm for picking.  This morning, we checked, and they were open!  So we called Grammy and Grandpa to see if they had an interest in going with us.

They gave us big yellow buckets when we got there.  A full bucket constituted a gallon – $12 of berries.  We very optimistically took 2 buckets with us but soon realized that we’d be lucky to fill up one.  Part of the issue was berry bushes with lots of unripe berries, but part of the issue was a little Selah June who really liked to eat the fruits of our collective labor.  She was eating those berries as fast as the four of us could pick them.

it was only after she had stuffed herself with berries that she willingly carried a bucket and gathered handfuls of berries collected by each of us.