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This evening I was tooling around on the 4 wheeler when the kids saw me and wanted a ride. So D rode in front of me and K hopped on the back and we began riding all around the property. We had lots of fun crossing the creek, riding beside the growing corn, standing on the 4 wheeler to pick mulberries and stumbling across a large patch of wild blackberries. The farmers this year have said that it was going to be a great summer for blackberries because it was a “blackberry winter”. Now I don’t know what conditions that means but I do know they are right. Blackberries are just now starting to come into their own and it looks like they have legs to go a while.

And because blackberries are on prickly canes and challenging for smaller hands and arms to reach, I used my 4 wheeler to ride the kids right up to the spots that were teaming with blackberries. They called it “blackberry heaven” and picked the fat, dark berries and plopped them into their mouths. It was like a drive up blackberry stand as we idled from cane to cane picking off the berries and eating them right there. What a great time in the country.

Oh, and goodbye June.

…..Dan at aslowerpace dot net

This entry was posted by Dan on June 30, 2010 at 9:53 pm under A Slower Pace, Country Life, Family. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Comments

  1. A Slower Pace » Blog Archive » Replay….. says:

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    July 1, 2010, 10:05 pm

  2. CindyDianne says:

    I used to pick blackberries every summer from horse back. Chico always stood patiently while I contorted into trick pony rider like poses trying to get the plumpest, ripest, most delectable berries!

    July 2, 2010, 2:33 pm

  3. Dan says:

    Exactly! Replace Chico with my 4 wheeler and add two kids and I was being just like you.

    July 2, 2010, 7:55 pm