Berry, berry fun

We've been enjoying lots of delicious, home-grown berries this summer in Missouri. The first tasty treat is mulberries in lemon yogurt. I didn't even know you could eat mulberries, but you can, and they are yummy! The people who used to own our house, who will soon become our neighbors when they build on the lot behind us, brought their kids over one day to pick mulberries off a nearby tree.

The other treat is blackberries. Our next door neighbor, "the other Mr. Larry," has blackberry vines but doesn't eat them, and invited us to partake. For only a small amount of menial farm labor, we got gobs of big, juicy ripe blackberries. Cooper being picky, he refused to eat them fresh--but then he asked to have them in a smoothie! Thanks to Grandma and Grandpa Welch for picking the blackberries and to Granny P. for her "Anything Smoothie" recipe. He slurped it down and then wanted to show off his smoothie mustache. Lincoln had to get in on the act, too.