Guess what?! It's Blueberry Picking time here where we live! Looky looky!! Mommie and Daddy turned into "Blueberry Run" street and we went to get some fresh blueberries!
I said, "Mommie, The sign says U-Pick Here Blueberries! Does that mean we are going to pick our own blueberries?"
Mommie said that she thinks they also sell them by the pound, already picked, and if so, that is what we will do today.
We met this nice lady there, and yes, she sold us some blueberries already picked so we didn't have to go out in the hot fields and pick them ourselves. And guess what else?
They also sell blueberry plants here with blueberries already growing on them!
Mommie was so excited she bought 5 plants!! Mommie said they are only $5.00 per plant, and they even already have blueberries on them, so that is quite a good deal!
This blueberry farm is not too far from where we live, just down the road a ways.
I was really excited to be able to see the blueberries and the people who were going to go pick their own blueberries.
I think it would be fun to pick your own berries.
When we got home, Daddy went and got the shovel out of the shed, and he started digging holes to plant the blueberry plants right away.
Then Mommie went to the lumber store down the road and got some stakes to stick in the ground to help hold them up nice and straight.
Looky here! These are the blueberries we bought at the farm, already picked. They are so sweet and BIG and juicy! Mommie said they are much bigger than the ones you can buy at the grocery store, and oh, so fresh and sweet and good!
So Mommie asked Daddy and my brother Scott what they would like for her to bake with them.
They both said they would like a blueberry pie.
So Mommie got out her very old cookbook that she has had ever since they got married almost 52 years ago.
Here is the recipe for Blueberry Pie that she used:
Of course I helped her get it ready to put in the oven:
And 35 minutes later, here it is! It just came out of the oven while I was telling you this story!
It smells SO good!!
I want to eat some right now, but Mommie says we have to wait for it to cool. That juice is still bubbling hot and it would burn us if we tried to eat it now.
And so that was my big adventure for today!! That was a lot of fun!
And now we will be able to grow our own blueberries, and maybe next year we will have enough to bake a pie or two!!
(and Mommie said she might go back and buy some more blueberries now so we have some more for blueberry muffins and just to eat on our cheerios and stuff!)
(Did you see those Cheerios are shaped like little hearts? I thought that was really cute!)
Mommie said to remember our Bible Verse:
"If you have faith as small as a mustard seed,
nothing will be impossible for you."
Matthew 17:20
And also did you see that pretty Easter Lily up above? It's still blooming since Easter!
And it reminds us again that Jesus is alive!
By the way...we found a street here in our neighborhood that has MY name!! Isn't that exciting?
Okay friends, that's my adventure for today.
I hope you are having some fun adventures too!
Bye Bye!
Love,
Lily Grace
(I have to go eat a piece of pie now if it has cooled down enough...
Wish you were here to have a piece too!)
