Steve, it is nice to pick things from your own property, we have the black raspberries first then the big black berries, and several other kinds I don’t know how many varieties. We did a lot of sweating, and fighting the mosquitos but it will be worth it when we go to the freezer and get a bag of berries.

We bought 40 pounds of blue berries and I want to get another 40 or 50 pounds to put in the freezer. I have perfected the blue berry pancakes, I told Pat I should get a cart with a hot plate and sell blue berry pancakes with a scoop of ice cream on top. My pan cakes our light not the big doughy type.

A couple of years ago we found out a guy right down the street from us has the best peaches, I would not have thought they could grow here but they are just as good as any Georgia peach you could get. I cut them up and have peaches all winter for my cereal.

We tried growing blue berries but the deer, turkey plus whatever other animal that was hungry got them. I saw a raccoon dragging a big yellow squash one year.

We have bought zucchini, and squash to cut up and in the freezer for soup this winter. I could start a soup kitchen also, not putting them women down but I think the reason we have so many men as top Chiefs is because they enjoy making food taste good, where some women cook just to feed the kids (not all of course) we all had mom's that were good cooks. That’s just the way it is in my house anyway, my wife hates to cook. I like trying different things the grandkids love my quasidias, and fedichini alfredo.

Richard