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Go berry picking (#11)
Everytime we go pick up our CSA box, we get a newsletter along with it. It tells us what is in our box for that week, what the vegetables are, how to store them, and some recipes for how to use them (which has been handy). The second time we picked up our load of veggies, our newsletter had a little headline “Don’t forget to sign up for strawberry days!” Turns out, the farm plants twice as many strawberries each year as they predict they will need for the CSA boxes and then opens the farm up to visitors four days a year so we can come pick our own berries.
So, we of course signed up and found ourselves driving up to the farm one lovely sunny Saturday afternoon. We found the farm, drove around and couldn’t find a living soul to figure out where the strawberries were. Because we weren’t supposed to be there until Sunday. Awesome. We wrapped up Saturday with some outlet shopping and a trip to Costco.
Anyway, on Sunday, we went back to the farm, slathered on some sunscreen and joined about a hundred other folks who were also out picking. Lots and lots of kids, which I can’t imagine trying to wrangle and explain the art of strawberry picking to. Strawberries grow close to the ground, the plants probably only grow about 10 inches, and the berries often lay directly on the ground – there is a lot of reaching and bending involved. Even so, Dan and I persevered and picked about 5.5 pounds of berries to take home with us. We just finished cutting them all up for dessert tonight and we picked them almost 2 weeks ago. I’m super impressed with how long they’ve kept in our fridge.
It’s also sort of boggling my mind how achieving one goal (CSA) directly led to another one being achieved as well. Hopefully this sort of karma continues. There clearly has to be something to the theory that if you make your goals/dreams known, then others will somehow help you achieve them.
That being said, is there anything on my list that you also want to do? Let’s make that happen. Or, is there anything you want to do that I can help with? Let’s make that happen too.
