I really needed to finish mowing the hill in the front of the house before it started raining again - but - Cathy said she'd make me a blackberry cobbler if I'd go pick the blackberries --- Guess what happened next!!??!!
Yep - I got my little bucket and went after some of them delectable edibles. However, I have some competition. Seems the turkeys have beaten me to the punch, and based on the height that the berries are missing and the trampling, so did the bears. They apparently get up earlier than I do. But more bothersome is the fact that these berry bushes are less than 25 feet from my house. I know there are bears up here cause I've seen the tracks down on the logging road just below the house but ain't seen any this close yet. Guess they were here first tho - so I'll share :)
Ya never know what you'll run into in the briar patch pick'n berries. Reckon these fellas were after some sweetener of their own.
My luck was good tho - they were more interested in the milkweed flower than me. I still gave them a plenty of room. Last year, in this same area, I stumbled into an underground hornets nest and boy was that exciting. I managed to run up hill without spilling one berry and only got stung once. When I got back on the porch and looked back down to the field it looked like there was a little black cloud hanging over the area where I had been standing. Enough excitement for one day. I'm just waiting on my cobbler.
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