a pound heavier

playing in the bushes

eating

some picking

"please I can eat this one?" (She must have said that about 300 times...at least she asked and did so politely!)

a bit of picking

eating

more eating

getting ready to eat

picking out the green ones before eating

eating(grandma is actually picking!)

more eating and yes, grandma is still picking

I think she was actually picking here!...must have been early on!

proof of some actual picking

The few years that we lived over in DeMotte, we had the great fortune to be close to at least 8 or 9 blueberry farms...they like the sandy soil there. Since we had just moved last year, and didn't have a deep freeze, I missed a year of picking blueberries. So, this year since we have the deep freeze and little girl who loves fruit to help us eat them up, we ventured out to the blueberry farm last Saturday. Grandma came along to help us. Maria had a great time picking, I mean picking and eating, the blueberries. She did have her bucket covered on the very bottom at one point. She dumped them into the larger bucket and from that point on basically just ate blueberries. It's a good thing they didn't weigh her before and after picking, we're sure she ate at least a pound.

It had rained in the morning, and by the time we got there it was done, but the bushes were very wet. You had to be careful or you would end up soaked as you reached into the bush to get the nice, big, juicy, ripe berries. In total we ended up with just over 19 and 1/2 pounds.

It was a fun day!