Blackberries!!!

I remember when we would all get out at mom and dad's cabin on the Blue Ridge Parkway, and pick blackberries... and get chiggers. Mom would wash the berries... or dad would..... and put together the easiest fruit pie recipe in the world....

1 stick margarine

1 cup sugar

1 cup milk

1 cup self-rising flour

3 cups fruit

(Melt butter and mix together in a baking dish all ingredients except the fruit)

THEN:Dump fruit (blackberries, strawberries, peaches, blueberries, etc.) on top of this but DO NOT MIX.

Bake on 350 for 1 hour and 10 minutes. Middle may be a little soupy, but it will jell up as it cools.

Dip some warm cobbler into a bowl and add a scoop of vanilla ice cream....

It was always delicious and there was never enough.

(pic above is of the view from the huge front porch looking out on the Alligator Back overlook on the parkway. The pic was taken from the driveway parking area at the house)

Charles makes a trip to Cooley Springs Orchards at least one time every summer. Best peaches on the planet. This year he came in with two quarts of the biggest sweetest blackberries I've ever seen. Mom and Deb and Carmen and kids were here. We got to talking about those cobblers we used to make and I came inside and made one. Heaven!

Charles decided "he needed some more of that" so he bought six more quarts of blackberries. Took me several hours between rests, but I got all of them frozen minus enough for a cobbler last night. JET, Papaw and Meem enjoyed ourselves on that pie while watching what was left of "Blazing Saddles" on TV.

I was up early (I can now say..."as usual") this morning. I'm going to sushhhhhhh about this arthritis pain - things could be so much worse...... but I could barely walk! The problem is, I'm not ready for anything to eat so early, but can't take any pain med until I've eaten... oh well, life at this age is interesting.