Every now and then you see somebody be like, "Hey, I know you."

"Where do I know you from?"

I don't know.

I've never met you before.

Like, "Oh, you're the berry picker guy!"

Yeah, definitely not quite ripe.

Not yet, anyways.

I don't know.

It's just a really good day.

The berries were just everywhere.

It was like the perfect time.

Like, even the tiny, smaller ones were all ripe, and then we all poured them into the larger Tupperware.

and they're like, "Hey, Tank.

do you want to share those berries?"

And I was like, "No."

And, I just kind of made a face.

And they took a picture.

And later on the meme showed up.

about a couple of hours later and I think my significant other posted it to a page to the Berry Picking page even.

And then I woke up the next morning and it was like 2,000 comments and like 4,000 likes and emojis.

And, I was just like, what the hell happened?

There you go, baby, use your hands.

Good job.

Yes, yes, you see the big ones?

We went up to Arctic Valley to pick blueberries, and I thought there wasn't going to be much because it was like a nice sunny day and it was a ton of people there when we got there.

But surprisingly, there was more than I thought there was going to be.

After picking blueberries, we brought them home.

And, I thought we were going to put them in pancakes, but instead my family ate them for lunch.

So, it worked out either way.

It was a nice healthy snack.

That's the whole point in going.

Blueberry lemon.

If you go to the store and you grab something, and I mean, it's always something out of pocket.

And, there's never really an experience outside of going to the grocery store.

And, if you live anywhere near one where you go on a regular basis with your parents or aunt, uncle, whomever, it's not really a big deal.

You don't really have to do much.

You just kind of go in and grab something and throw it in a basket and be done with it.

You never really get the rewarding excellence of being out in nature to do such a thing.

And, I feel like more people should enjoy that, or at least experience it before they just decide they don't like it.

Whatever doesn't end up canned, ends up frozen.

That's rhubarb cut into four cup pieces.

Wild blueberries.

I grew up in Mississippi, in North Mississippi, about 80 miles south of Memphis.

Foraging for food where I grew up wasn't always great.

It was pretty slim pickings because there was a lot of farms around.

However, it was capable of being done.

You just had to walk a little further, a little deeper into the woods and make sure you wasn't on private land.

But, it was, it was not as fruitful as Alaska, put it that way.

And it was normally way hotter out.

So you want to get out early in the mornings when there's still dew and stuff.

And, it was cool.

And, there was not a large variety as there is up here.

Like, not for berries anyway.

I mean, there was blackberries and persimmon trees and stuff you could find, but you really had to know where to go look.

Yeah, okay come on.

We got a little bit more to go.

There's a patch.

Look, there's a patch right here.

My childhood shaped my adulthood and family a lot because I remember there was plenty of opportunity to go out and go hunting and go foraging, but not always the time to do so or the resources to do so as a child.

And I didn't want that to be the case with my kids.

I wanted them to always feel like they could ask me to go out and do something, or ask me to go hunting or go shooting or go foraging, or just go for a hike and be outside and enjoy.

And it's worked like a charm.

She loves it more than I do.

Oh, my gosh, again!

Getting purple fingers.

I don't know any other places like this where I can go.

I choose to stay in Alaska because it's peaceful here.

People are nice.

It's not I mean, I grew up in a place where there was a lot of racism down south, not so much here.

It's kind of a melting pot of culture.

And if you're going to raise kids, you might as well raise them in a place where everybody's accepting and they can experience a little bit of everything everywhere.

And not to mention this is the only place I know where you can hike a mountain in the morning and go see fishing in the evening.

It's not too many other places I know where you can do that and still get some nice, wild caught salmon and or wild berries from the mountain at the same time.

Go for it!