Thunder, lightning and heavy rains have produced a record setting blackberry season and a welcome change from last year's forest fires. Blackberry pie, blackberry jam, blackberry muffins, blackberry salad... Interestingly, Lula began to eat blackberries right off the bush. Buckley initially thought this was not proper behavior for a dog, but about one month later he was spotted grazing on blackberries in the field himself. The dogs now wander the fields all day and return with berry-stained snouts. Of course, the chickens are gorging themselves on berries too.
Cymande continues her garden experiment and though she feels this season's crop wasn't as abundant as planned we continue to get fresh vegetables and herbs daily. The purple carrots are especially good.
We recently cooled off in the Blue Hole at Itchetucknee Springs with our friend Allison. We also attended the July 4th fireworks downtown. Allison got to see many of our patients wandering amongst the explosions and smoke. I found the experience a bit surreal. Allison is on a raw diet, but that didn't stop us (or her) from drinking wine and eating recently slaughtered OWR chicken. We all would like to thank her for our overflowing Ipod and Ariel Pink playing continuously in the studio.
