Saturday, July 24, 2010

blueberry picking


While my sister and her kiddos were in town, we took the whole crew out to Sauvie Island for some blueberry picking.  Fields and fields of berries awaited us!  It was easy to get lost in berry picking.  Some of us did more eating than picking, though, and so after gathering blueberries, raspberries, and marionberries; visiting the animal barn; and stopping in the store to purchase some green beans for pickling, we headed home.

We spent the afternoon and evening making an all-berry jam (called "jam jamboree", after a favorite book of ours), and some dilly green beans.  mmmmm...

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