Huckleberries!

After living here for how many years, we finally got someone to tell us where we could go huckleberry picking --for some reason it is quite the secret, everyone will tell you a general area but no one is willing to offer up their 'prized' picking spots.  When we got there we really couldn't figure out what the secret is all about because there were SO many huckleberries --and we were only in one small area.  I guess it's a 'locals' thing ;)

We had a fun time picking - surprisingly the kids lasted almost 2 hours, then we stopped for a pic-nic lunch and let them watch a movie in the car while LeGrand and I picked for another hour and a half. We got almost 2 gallons of huckleberries!  Not too shabby for our first time --they are like gold around here, people sell them for $80 a gallon or $20 a quart --it's crazy!  The kids are determined to pick some to sell next year :)

Linq was content as long as he had plenty of berries to eat!

 we even discovered a patch of wild strawberries, they were super small but really sweet

 We finished our day with yummy huckleberry shakes!