Pie!!!

[chefsdreams]

That sounds soooo good! Between you talking about pie and NHH talking about blackberry crisp - I'm doomed!

blackberry crisp! oh man does that sound good. where am i gonna find some blackberries?

 

[Mini Horses]

WalMart has them here. Shipped in from somewhere.....but, they've been good at all the demos I've done this past month.

Ahhhhh.....frozen will probably give you USA grown. Maybe.

 

[NH Homesteader]

I still have some frozen from the wild bushes in the woods behind my house. I fight the bears for them. If I don't check every day, a whole bunch disappear thanks to my not so good friend mama bear.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

BEAR??!! That's not even cool! That' scary! I don't think I'd like a bear that close! Geeze.... You should probably move south, lol!

 

[NH Homesteader]

Lol! It's actually a real problem. They are in our yard all the time. One walked up and stared at me through the living room window once. It was intense. We lost 4 or so bags of grain last year too. Alfalfa pellets? Really, bear?

 

[frustratedearthmother]

I canNOT wrap my head around that. I'd never go outside!

 

[NH Homesteader]

I do not go outside around dusk without a gun, particularly early spring and late fall. The only good thing about winter is the bears hibernating!

 

[Mini Horses]

Dang --- I don't do bears!!!! Might be the only good thing to be said for the cold, which I don't like either, that they hibernate.

Nope, southern gal here. I do live near the Great Dismal Swamp where there is a sizeable number of black bear. It's about 30 mile to edge, as a crow flies. But with so much built up in between they rarely venture out in this direction. Rather, they go into the preserve and remain there, several thousand acres of wildlife with rangers and all that.

I have some wild blackberries here on the farm. Thorny little rascals.

 

[lcertuche]

I was waiting another week to pick the majority of my blackberries and dang it if a bear didn't get them first. He/she did leave big piles of scat, lol. The berries grow around the pond in front of my house. Kind of scary knowing one was so nearby. DH and the Wildbunch saw it a few times moseying around in the spring.

 

[NH Homesteader]

Oh I can just picture that little old lady! Too funny!