BERRY PICKING TIME

 

Well official "berry picking" has come to the north country. This time of year the forest are full of all kinds of berries. It is just amazing all the different berries we have. When you walk into the forest it smells so sweet from all the berries. We pick two kinds of berries to make into jelly and syrup.

 

 

First we pick the wild raspberries. We use to have this wonderful patch by our canoe lakes, but the grasses took over that area and choked out the berries so now we found a new area and whalla.......it is right down the road from us!! Makes it very convenient.

 

Hubby picking raspberries

 

 

 

Sometimes we have to watch out for the moose. Especially if there is a mom and babies. Mom gets very upset if you get close to them and she can stomp you pretty bad. Well we had visitor's this time. Mom wasn't too mad until the baby kept coming towards us then she didn't like that. We had to yell at the baby and wave our arms to get them to move off into the forest which they did.

Visitor's we had while picking berries. This is the baby and Mom is in the background.

 

 

 

The next berries we get are high bush cranberries. We have to drive a few miles to get those, but we make it a day trip so it is always fun. Well as long as it doesn't rain. We have to hike up this trail to get to the cranberry patch and of course watch out for bears. This area is heavily populated with bears so we always have to take our bear spray and gun, but it is still fun. Luckily we have never encounter a bear while picking berries.

 

A lot of the trail is muddy so they have put in these boardwalks which makes it much easier.

 

 

 



 



 

This trail takes you up pretty high and the view is just spectacular.

 

 

 

And here are the results of our picking efforts. :)

 

 

 

 

It is always so much fun to go berry picking. It is a tradition with us and kicks off our fall season. We wish we could find a blueberry patch, but those are harder to find here on the peninsula. We need to go into the Interior to find them. Maybe when we retire we can spend some time doing that. :)

 

 

Hopefully we will get the jelly and syrup made this weekend. Have a three day weekend so maybe we will get time. When we get the cranberries done I will do a post on how to make jelly and syrup so stay tuned. :)

 

 

Thanks for joining me on our berry picking journey. Everyone have a great day!! :)

 

 



HOW TO ADD A PIN IT "HOVER BUTTON" TO YOUR IMAGE

I follow this wonderful blog Sew Many Ways and Karen over there is such a wonderful wealth of knowledge. She always has such great tutorials, repurposing and crafting ideas. I love to follow her blog. Anyway......she posted this tutorial on her blog and I thought it was so great that I thought you might like it also. I am certainly not very "techy", but this was actually very easy!! Since she is so great with screen shots I thought I would just use hers. Here is how you do it. :)

First go to your Pinterest dashboard page. Then click on the drop down button in the left hand side and go to Business on the bottom of the screen.








Next, click on the Tools button.





Then on the left hand side click on the Widget builder.







Then click on the Pin It Button.





Now click on the button type.....I chose Image Hover.








Click on Built It and then on Advanced








Highlight the code and right click and COPY it. Now....make sure you get the entire code and don't do like I did. I missed the first < and when I put it to my blog layout it wouldn't work. Of course it wouldn't work for me I thought!! Well after checking back and forth with what I did I realized what happened. Always happens to me. :) :) :)








 Now off to your blog layout. Pick Add a Gadget







 Then the HTML/Java Script





Now copy and paste the code you copied into the box. Now make sure after you preview it to Save Arrangement.  






And whalla........you have a Pin It button on your images!! And it works on the older photos too!! Now everyone can pin those great pictures you all have on your blogs.

So, that is how you can add a hover Pin It button to your blog. Thanks again to Karen at Sew Many Ways. Check out her blog....you won't be disappointed. Have a new recipe for you under Recipe Exchange. Just in time for the cantaloupe season!

Hope everyone has a great week!

 

:)