Recipe(tried): Re: To Ann in Wild Wonderful West Virginia

Dear Ann,
Now, you did say a couple of words in your line to me that hit home. You said "Summers County". That is truley the roots of my whole existence! My entire family came from there, and the tombstones in the old cemetaries up on Chestnut Mountain have our family names on them and date back way way to the early 1700's!
My Granny Church's house was on Summers St., the main drag through town so to speak, and her house sat right above that beautiful Greenbrier River! Now, if you hung one hand out the window and hung onto the side of the mountain, and kept your car halfway on that little thing called the road, you could go north of Hinton to a lil place called Brooks. Brooks, thats the place where my entire family ancestory started, and the root of all these things I yak about in my recipes. Chestnut Mountain is nothing, just a big old mountain, but my goodness, the lives that were lived there were more than any book could ever tell in a thousand years. Rich robust lives that were so full of love and friendships and of living and of dyeing, it all happened on that mountain!
Well, I guess I am drifting back a bit, but, hard not to. Now, considering your blueberries! My best advice to you is to put those things on cookie sheets and then stick 'em in the freezer, and let them freeze solid, then dump 'em in a plastic bag. When you want to use them, just pull em out and they will be all loose and frozen, then treat them like you would a regular berry, except, if you wanna mix em into a fruit salad, then throw them in at the last minute while still frozen, when your guest bite into them, it might be a bit crunchy with the ice, but it'll still have that fresh summertime taste.
So far as cooking with em, just throw them into the recipe frozen solid, they will bake up just fine as any fresh one ever did.

I'm so taken back by your knowing where Hinton and Summers Co. is. My grandaddy was a designer for the Bluestone Damn there, oh my, that was a project to do that thing, and five men lost there lives on it. But, it saved many more lives by stoppin the river from the terrible floods they always had there, but, well, that was all back in the '30's, and doubt you could remember those days.

Ok, Ann, thanks so much for replying to my recipe. Keep on looking for my posting, and I will do until I get a hint that I need to shut up!

Thank you for asking, and thank you for receiving my response. Also, if any other folks read this who follow my story line, I say, thanks for your time and considerations on reading a bit on my life and history. Also, just luv to hear your thoughts on it, take care my friends.

Sweet Dreams To All!
David In Virginia
DvdnVa@aol.com