Chicken and I went for a nice little hike today, and we discovered a few things… First we discovered that the creek where the Chickens learned to swim is all dried up. But while walking along the dry creek bed, we discovered blackberries!!! Fresh, delicious, blackberries grown in the bright California sun and ripe for the picking!! Tons of them. I was so excited, I picked and ate blackberries until my teeth were full of seeds and I had been stabbed by blackberry brambles more times than I could stand. The best ones were of course out of reach, but I tried to get them anyway, resulting in more bramble stabbings. It was so awesome and delicious… For a few minutes I wished I was a bear so I wouldn’t care about the brambles and I could eat all the blackberries… I don’t even know if bears eat blackberries, in fact I doubt that they have the digital dexterity to pick them, but if I was a bear would so get down on those berries…. Chickens didn’t really care for the blackberries. She found some nice horse poop to eat instead.