Weekend Adventures

We tried something new this weekend.  We stayed home - ALL WEEKEND LONG!

  

 

So we spent Saturday blueberry picking at our favorite blueberry farm - Cook's Berry Farm in Charlotte (3534 W. Kalamo Hwy).  I discovered this farm, 5 years ago, totally by accident when I was trying to find another place that I had been told about.  Last year, I wanted to find this one again, but I couldn't remember the name of it, or where it was.  So we looked up another blueberry farm, just in case we couldn't find it.  After about an hour of searching, we gave up and started looking for the one we had directions to.  We got to the address - and it was the same one I had been looking for!  I took a picture of the sign last year so I would remember what the name was for future blueberry picking excursions.  Like this past weekend.  Got there this time with only one wrong turn!

 

EG loves picking (eating) blueberries.  We had a rule this year that she had to put 2 in her bucket before she could eat one.  MOST of the time, that happened.

 

The Country Mill leases Cook's from the owner and runs the blueberry picking operation.  They also sell donuts there.  Mmmm donuts.  We wanted some, and the ones that were there were not the kind we wanted, so we drove to the Country Mill afterward.  Our wedding reception was at the Country Mill, so we try to make a trek there once a year for apples and donuts and cider slushies.  Mmmm cider slushies.  We never got this picture on our wedding day, so we had EG take the pic this year - 3.5 years later.  Not a bad shot for a toddler. 

On Sunday, we decided to see if we could let the gals out of the coop to graze in the yard, under supervision.  I also wanted to check them over to make sure there were no obvious issues with them (chicken lice or the like).

 

So we started with Ronnie, since she's down a wing and can't fly away on us.  We opened the coop door and coaxed her out on the top of the run.  She was too scared to jump down so we had to set her down on the ground.  She immediately dropped down to the ground and tried to get as close to the ground as possible.  She looks good though, no bugs and her wing is healing well (the feathers are growing back too).

 

Then we tried to get Ginnie, coaxing her out with grapes.  She came out for about 2 seconds and then ran back in (Ronnie was already back in there by that point).

 

EOP grabbed her out again so we could check her over.  She calms right down when you cradle her on her back.  We didn't see any issues with her, so I think we are good to go for now.

 

As a reward for being tortured, we gave them a little bit of plain yogurt.  They LOVE yogurt and it's good for their digestive system.  It's fun to watch them eat it and then wipe their beaks on the grass to clean them off.