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[chickadoodles]

Since the baby's momma showed up we went in the pasture picking blackberries. I have enough for a pie!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Those look amazing.

Meanwhile our snow is almost all gone. Our high yesterday was only 42.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Since the baby's momma showed up we went in the pasture picking blackberries. I have enough for a pie!

none here yet at least two months left before we see ours

 

[Cynthia12]

Since the baby's momma showed up we went in the pasture picking blackberries. I have enough for a pie!

Oh man those look good. Used to go and pick them when we visited my grandmother's place in VA. back in the 60's. We would come back with some, and some pretty black mouths, and fingers. Yum!

 

[chickadoodles]

Thanks Scg and Penny. Hopefully it won't be to long before you will get some. Scg I hope your snow melts and it warms up.

Do either of you have a good blackberry pie recipe? I have tried more times that I care to mention other recipes and they never turn out good.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quote: Thanks. My sister pays 7.00 per pint to have her organic shipped to her. I told her I wish she lived closer we have them all over and the only thing they get is cow patties. lol
We still have a bunch that are red so we will have a couple more picks hopefully. We did see a yellow snake with black stripes down it as we were finishing picking. In Calif. we never got to pick any kind of berries so when we moved to Alabama this was an all new experience and we love it!

 

[getaclue]

I want to get some blackberry canes started on one of our fences. Would love to get blueberries started on the opposite fence too.

chicka, glad it's mama showed up. My grandmother took care of a Mockingbird that had fallen out of it's nest. Every morning she would take it to the area where it had fallen, putting food, water, and keeping a good eye on it. Later on she would bring it back in. She kept this up for 2 weeks. During the 2 weeks it had gotten bigger, and stronger. One morning when she put it out, 2 adult birds approached it, and kept prodding at it to make it climb up to the top of the shrub, where they had built a nest. They took care of it from then on.

 

[chickadoodles]

I want to get some blackberry canes started on one of our fences. Would love to get blueberries started on the opposite fence too.

chicka, glad it's mama showed up. My grandmother took care of a Mockingbird that had fallen out of it's nest. Every morning she would take it to the area where it had fallen, putting food, water, and keeping a good eye on it. Later on she would bring it back in. She kept this up for 2 weeks. During the 2 weeks it had gotten bigger, and stronger. One morning when she put it out, 2 adult birds approached it, and kept prodding at it to make it climb up to the top of the shrub, where they had built a nest. They took care of it from then on.

These blackberries are all wild here. I bought a satin blackberry but it did not have any flavor so we ditched it. lol We do have them all over the place.

This thicket is usually full and there were not that many here.
But around the cell tower fence we got a bunch.

They mostly run on the ground making it difficult to walk around and pick them all. lol
The blueberries I bought last year are pretty full of blueberries this morning I got the first ripe one of the season.It was so goood!
They are young plants so there won't be many for a while. But I can wait. I made some bread that had blueberries and pecans in it once
in my bread maker and it was sooooo goood! I can't put the blueberries in the ground here the black belt soil they say will kill them.
And blueberries don't mind pots cuz their roots are shallow. So this large half barrel is perfect for three of them for now.
If you lived close I would tell you to come dig some up. lol

I'm glad your grandma had good luck with her chick. I knew we had to get it off the ground as our dogs will eat birds in a minute any kind.
When we went out to pick the berries the momma was hollering at us! I told her we did not want to mess with her baby and she shut up. lol

 

[Beer can]

Wow, blackberries! Out wild one's don't ripen till Aug.

 

[Alaskan]

They'd a locked her up and made big news today!

Few yrs ago our kids school was thinking of doing something with the old rifle range under the high school. Was called the dungeon when I was in high school early '90s, where the teacher's had their smokes. No smoking on the property anymore, not even in your own personal vehicle, must leave.
I heard at that meeting (I don't go to them things unless it's to vote) that some of the parents freaked out hearing about a rifle range under the school, obviously not local, imports, probably from the big city. Ahh, hello! Rifles have been a Olympic sport since the 1890s and still today.
I remember when I was in elementary school, '80s, the 'big kids' bringing their .22s on the school bus and handing them to the bus driver, gave them back when they got dropped off. Heard we had one of the top teams in the state back then.
Last yr one of our dd's friends was expelled permanently from school cause someone saw some empty shotgun shells in his vehicle, said he went rabbit hunting that morning and emptied his pockets before going in school.
Now, no one wants to see another Columbine or Sandy Hook, but they're taking it too far, Google how many kids, even kindergarteners,5yr olds, young teens also, expelled, kicked out, arrested, for drawing guns, making gun gestures, using sticks for pretend guns, water pistols

water pistols

I'd have to look it up but come graduation day, last day of school, if you weren't soaked, you didn't go to school, pretty sure the 'super soaker' pump up and spray! was invented in the early '90s, lots of water balloons made it to school and out also

Rant over...Lol!

Way back in highschool..as a senior...we dressed up as what we wanted to be when we grew up.

I came to school with a beat up hat, very old work clothes and a machete. A real one. I think someone else brought a rifle.

No one blinked an eye.

By the way, I was "land rich and dirt poor"