Strawberry Time

Every year since arriving in NC we have gone strawberry picking at the same farm. Gross Farm has the best butter pecan ice cream in the entire universe too. The kids just have to always try to out do each other in who picked the biggest berries, who's faster, who can pick the most. Dew is no help when he is the one antagonizing them the most. Eight buckets of berries. Eight! Thanks Dew. There were enough strawberries to can three cases of jam, five small tubs of freezer jam, about six gallon size freezer bags, enough for strawberry shortcake twice and strawberry pancakes. Not to mention how many berries we ate during the processing of. This year the entire family helped with cleaning and hulling. It was an opportunity to see how we worked together as a family. If these are the kids that are supposed to care for Dew and me when were old....... it'll be interesting.