As usual, the drive through the mountains was incredibly beautiful with the river shining in the morning sun. I love seeing all the animals and gardens on the farms we pass. When we got there a little before 8:30, we saw that the bushes were filled with a lot more ripe berries than the last time we had come. They’ve been ripening up like crazy in all this hot weather!

We grabbed our buckets and headed out into the field. There were already two carloads of people out picking and there was lots of merry chatter.

After about an hour of picking, we started getting really hot. The early morning sun was hotter than usual, we were glad we came early. We’ve been having record heat here and like to do all we can in the mornings. We decided to head over to the small part of the blueberry field that was still in the shade. Ahhh… it felt so cool & refreshing there! We picked for another half hour and then headed up to get weighed and saw that they had eggs for sale. We’ve been getting one egg a day from our girls now (one just started to lay), so we were happy to find some farm fresh eggs we could buy!

Then I took a few pictures of Patches the llama before we left. He is the most friendly llama I’ve ever met. He lives with two pygmy goats and a sheep and protects them, they are such a sweet and funny family together. Patches is very watchful of all the pickers in the field. He raises his head above the fence and watches you wherever you go. It was nice being around a friendly llama that I could come up to and take a picture without worrying about them spitting on me. 🙂

Jeff & I picked two flats of blueberries this morning! I took this picture of the harvest when we got home and Abu wanted to be in the picture too! 🙂