Too Hot to Think Straight

Ed and I have been getting up early this week to get our farm chores done. This mostly includes watering our new trees, inspecting our tomato plants for scary caterpillars and picking wild blackberries -- all before the sun gets too high and the temperature gets too hot.

Here's our blackberry haul from the last couple of days.

I could make a blackberry pie or cobbler, ice cream or sorbet, jam or jelly, a smoothie or a fool. Deciding which one was just too much for me. So I've put them on baking sheets and placed them in the freezer for a couple of hours. Once they are solidly frozen, I'll  transfer them to gallon freezer bags. But for now, I'm going to take a nap...