Mother's Day

We went strawberry picking for the first time this season! The goal was to find a decent amount of red ones to give to my grandmother for Mother's Day. We were amazingly blessed to be able to share and still come home with a van full of strawberries! The dehydrator went non-stop for a day and a half - three gallons of berries are now in three pint size jars. Plus, enough in the freezer for three pies and the rest I froze whole for smoothies. Of course, we ate our fair share of them, so if the kids' poop red for a while, don't be surprised. And if the chickens lay strawberry flavored eggs from all the remnants, well, that would be okay, too. It just doesn't get any better than a strawberry that's red and juicy all the way through. Philip said I was "slurping" my strawberries out in the field. I say, if your strawberries are slurpable, why not?