My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Jam Jars

I am beat.

Beat I tell you!!

And why would that be might you ask? Well I will tell you. Here is Northeastern Ohio the month of June holds many things.

Rain
bugs
bad baseball
And……….

Strawberries!

Lookleap and I drove over to a local farm/orchard to pick strawberries. That is my cohort in crime in the white shirt.

It was a gorgeous day for picking. Cool, cloudy, no bugs that I could discern. But I have to tell you that picking these luscious berries gave me a great appreciation for the migrant workers who normally pick the berries you buy in the store. I don’t know how their backs survive it.

And the strawberries!!! Good golly Miss Molly where they gorgeous. And so many of them.

  Nom, nom, nom, nom……..do I pick it and put it in the container or do I pick it and quietly put it in my mouth.

Dirt? Sand? Slug trails? Who the heck cares! Oh they tasted good.

I mean I THINK that they LOOK like they will taste good because I know my mother would tell me that I shouldn’t eat any before they are washed.

And I always do what my mother tells me…….

Beautiful!

You know, for some reason several people at the orchard seemed to think that Lookleap and I were sisters. I am not sure why that is……well…….

Except for the fact that we were bickering. In a playful way only mind you. And I was sort of bossing her around.

But that was only because I was right. HA!

Ummmmmmmmm, I may have gone a tad overboard on the strawberry picking. These are all mine. I am not exactly sure how many pounds that I picked. I was frankly afraid to ask. I will make a wild guess that it is less that 10 pounds and more than 5 pounds…….

But I might be wrong.

I really didn’t think that I had picked this many. Really I didn’t. I just kept picking and picking and picking. It wasn’t really until I got home that I realized that I was in a heap of strawberry trouble. What in tarnation was I going to do with all of this stuff.

Hi. My name is Debbie and I’m a strawberry glutton.

Oh Mommy!

So this is what I did with some of the strawberries….

 

And you can bet your last Euro that I sampled the goods more than once. I wouldn’t want to produce a bad product you know.

And I can also tell you that I still have half of the strawberries left. I am thinking maybe Strawberry/Blueberry Jam tomorrow.

But right now I am just thinking toast……with jam on it.

NomNomNomNomNom