Blueberry Hill Farm

Overwhelmed.  This one word describes it all right now.   It's the peak of blueberry season here and blueberries are all there is right now.  Big picking Monday and Tuesday morning, go to market Tuesday afternoon/evening; pick all day Wednesday for egg club customers orders Thursday; pick all day Friday for market on Saturday.  Church Sunday.  Crash Sunday afternoon for a heavenly NAP. Yay for Sunday afternoon naps!  When I close my eyes to sleep I see BLUEBERRIES!! I'm not griping here.  Honestly.  It's been a very good season thus far and I'm psyched to finish it out. 

Nothing else is getting done on this farm, though.  Grass and weeds abound.  No time to mow.  No time to get plantings started for the fall.  Everything is on hold until I can come up for air.

Once a season I take a load of berries to First National Bank.  I've done it for years.  FNB is very supportive of farmers.  I guess that's why so many of us bank there.  They welcome farmers with their labors' fruits to stop by and sell a bit.  While there today, a lady, who bought several pints of berries from me, promised to share a new recipe for Blueberry Soup she makes every year.  She says it is a truly delicious cold soup and I'm excited to try it and to share it with you.  It'll be something different, anyway.

On a non-blueberry note -- we are on "cria watch".  Any day now I am expecting a new alpaca baby from our girl Runaround Sue.  She is huge, hot and miserable and spends the majority of most days laying in front of the barn fan.  Any time she sees me with a hose in my hand, she comes up and demands to be sprayed.  I'm always glad to be of assistance as Sue is a good girl and, having had my first child in mid-August, suffering through one of the summers with many consecutive days in the upper 90's, I can empathize with her situation.

In other alpaca news, our handsome boy, Salzedo, has finally become a "man" and has begun servicing a couple of our girls.  It took him a while to figure out the "birds and bees" stuff, but he's gotten the hang of it and has been doing quite well, thank you very much!

Well, that's the latest from Blueberry Hill.  Onward and upward . . .