Our strawberry plants were doing so well this year. We had a lot of berries just beginning to ripen. Not enough to make jam or anything. But enough to have as snacks in the house for a few weeks. Then the raccoons came. Or the squirrels. Not sure which. But they picked our strawberry plants clean. Even took the green ones. They left a few strawberry carcasses lying in the grass. But, generally devoured all traces of our delicious little berries.
So, today, I decided to go to the local farm at lunchtime, and buy a couple of packs. I ended up buying 3, instead of my usual 2, as they looked so darn fresh and wonderful.
But, now I sit here with buyer's remorse. Yes, they look good. And yes, I need to make more jam. And yes, I need to freeze more of them because we've used up all the ones from last year already. But, darn...I'm going to be cleaning strawberries for hours tonight!!
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They look so yummy!
Buyers remorse indeed. About seven or eight years ago I took my girls to South Carolina. We went adventuring and found a strawberry farm. We ate about as much as we picked and our tongues were raw for days. To this day, those were the best strawberries I have ever...EVER tasted. Mmmm.
They do look delicious. It's been raining so much here (pretty much non-stop since April) that our local farm's strawberry crop was ruined. What a bummer.
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