Woohoo! Two sunny days in a row! We left poor daddy behind to work on watches while the rest of us loaded up and headed south to Stockton Springs and Staples Homestead for some blueberry pickin'. We drove along coastal hwy. 1 passing up all sorts of fun flea markets, yard sales, and antiques places as well as a great rug hooking store in Searsport that I've been longing to visit for over a year now--Oh! If only there were more hours in a day! We discovered yet another wonderful Maine U-pick farm for our first authentic blueberry experience. We decided to rake as opposed to hand-picking since we weren't all that particular to the size of the berries...plus it just goes a whole lot faster!
Some of our homeschooling families were there, too, which made it all even more fun! Can you see all the purple mouths lined up in a row? We filled up a 5 gallon bucket with a little overflow amounting to 22 qts. of blueberries! Don't ask me where I'm gonna freeze all these berries. At the rate we're all going, though, I may not have as many to freeze as I think we will. We treated ourselves to a mountain of blueberry pancakes this morning....and let me tell ya! They were TOO scrumptious! The girls have also wolfed down a bowlful of blueberries n' cream (with lots of sugar, of course!) so, who knows?
There's actually much, much more to our blueberry story here, but I've been fighting with THE slowest moving computer this side of the equator today! So I'll post this much tonight and stay tuned for more tomorrow...and hopefully my computer will be on better behavior, too!
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