There Will Be No Berries Before Its Time ;)

We have been pretty busy getting ready for the eminent picking season.  Some of the berries are just now starting to make that turn towards getting ripe.   Most of the berries are still green, but with some warmer weather they would probably turn pretty fast.  The rain and the cooler weather that we have had lately has slowed the ripening process somewhat, so we don’t expect to open till next Friday (June 5th) .  We are thinking that the 5th might be a good guess – it’s really hard to tell this year.  Today was really cool, it felt more like an early spring day than the end of May.

We just missed some bad weather last night – they had a really bad storm out toward Decatur with golf ball size hail and high wind.  It was headed our way, but it split when it got here and half followed the river and the other half went east of us.  The spring storms, because of their sometimes surprising capacity for destruction, also bring a great deal of anxiety  – especially now when we are always worried about hail and winds damaging the berries and the bushes.