Down in the Strawberry Patch - Rural Thursday

It's that time of year!  So we took our annual family excursion to the strawberry patch.  Oh how our family finds joy in picking those sweet red berries.  The boys munched worked diligently this year to get berries.  Pierce said he was going to get a Kajillion berries.  Sadly, he fell a little short.

The twins were slightly better contributers than last year, although some of their berries weren't quite ripe.  The berries weren't as plentiful because we'd had cool weather the previous couple of weeks.

With lots of rain too.

But they had ample straw so it wasn't as muddy as we'd expected.

When it came time to check out, the twins were terribly disgruntled.  They didn't want to combine buckets of berries.  MY STRAWBERRIES, MY STRAWBERRIES went the laments.  Note the worry on Reid's face during checkout.  And the little hand, inching out towards his bucket.  He really didn't want the lady to take his berries.  

On the way home, we stopped off at the local creamery for this:

Because that morning, in preparation, I'd baked this:

And so, the end to a perfect day?  This:

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