Blueberries for a Blueberry Girl

This past weekend we enjoyed a visit from the Dumont Crew - D, Mr. Mustard - and Emma!  Our big outing for the weekend was a trip out to Grindstone Farm to get our hands on some of the last of the blueberries.  The past 2 years Jess and I have enjoyed stuffing our freezer full of summer berries - always enough to last us into the following spring!  It seems as though Baby may put a bit of a cramp on that tradition - but we've started a new one!  Being a trio we may not pick the same poundage, but it's a lot more fun with our Blueberry Girl in tow! 

It was a perfect day (for me) for heading up to the farm: not too warm, a bit overcast, slight breeze  :)  I haven't hopped into Grindstone's pond yet, but Emma, Jess, and D all braved a higher-than-it-looks-from-the-ground platform to whiz down the zip line and into the water.  No zip lines for me quite yet, but Eddy B and I enjoyed the picking and the eating and the snuggling by the water's edge. 

Later that night, Emma took charge of the kitchen and treated us all to homemade margarita pizza and a 3-berry crisp for dessert!

It was a nice weekend - an active, go-get'um Saturday and then a laaazy rainy Sunday.  Somewhere in there we also made berry frozen (Greek) yogurt with bits of chocolate and almonds, Emma and Jess whipped up a succulent loaf of cinnamon raisin bread (we can't get enough of that stuff!), and the boys put together our "pub table" out on the sun porch.  It's quite a bit taller than we expected, but we wanted it to be tall so we could survey from above the gloriousness that is our backyard while sippin on coffee and hanging with EB.

I'm going to include some pix here of Grandpa Goodglass and Edylene that weren't in the last post - also some of the Grindstone pix are courtesy of D's Iphone :)