Birthday and Blackberries!

For memorial weekend (other known as my birthday weekend) Brian and I went to his grandmother's peach farm in stone wall by Fredricksburg TX.  Usually they have lots of peaches when we come (end of June beginning of July) but this time it was Blackberry season!

YUM, is right! There were tons (an still are).  We were able to make a blackberry cobbler and eat as many as we liked over the weekend. We also brought about 8 quarts back with us.  I have already made one cobbler for Brian and I with a quart.  I have given 3 quarts away to various people and tomorrow I will be making another cobbler for work.  The rest of the blackberries will just be for eating :)

Friday morning before we got to the farm Brian's grandparents had some people come over and pick berries but they left them there.  So we had a good 40cups of blackberries if not more sitting in the fridge needing to be eaten or cooked or something.  We made 5 batches of blackberry jam (26pints!!!) on Sunday! :)  It was super fun.  i have not done much or any canning before so I was able to learn how to do it all!  It is a job though. It took us about 4hours to get everything set up, make it, and clean up.