I’ve learned a few more things about mulberries
–One website called them blackberry wannabes. I agree but I’m glad they’re not because your jaws don’t get tired chomping down on seeds.
–One way to get mulberries out of trees is to lay out a sheet under the tree and then shake the limbs!
–Most people like eating them just plain
–It’s fun to eat your homemade mulberry jam smack dab in the middle of the winter!
–I grew up thinking they were bad. I had to double check that they were safe to eat. Most of the time when I heard about mulberries I would hear how they were annoying because they stain sidewalks, driveways, cars, etc.
–When you freeze them lay them out on some waxed paper, freeze and then put in a container and refreeze
–Birds like to nest in their branches. They may have a bird brain but they’re smart about raising their little chickies in a home that’s overlooking a storehouse of food! . . . No wonder that bird always gives me an annoying crow when I visit the mulberry tree.
–Silk worms like them
–If you have a dehydrater you can dry your own mulberries. I’ve seen them priced at $15.95 for 16 ounces.
–Heck! Mulberries are considered a superfood and their growing around my neighborhood and people ignore them. They’re even organic!!
–The mulberry leaf can be used for tea.
MULBERRY CRUNCH
Serves 12 to 14
Here’s a greattasting recipe made by an accomplished chef

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On this day in 337, Constantine the Great, who had practiced Christianity since his youth and sparked its growth into a world religion, became on his deathbed the first Roman emperor to be baptized in the Christian church.

Taken from Back To The Bible
In Woodrow Kroll’s devotion Early In the Morning, he told of a story about a man named Andrew Frazer.
I wish I could be like this man. This man had a worn Bible. When he spoke before a crowd about Christian things he spoke and expounded on details most people don’t realize.
Later a man named H. A. Ironside asked Frazer how he became so learned in the Bible. I love his reply . . . He said,
“My dear young man, I learned these things on my knees on the mud floor of a little sod cottage in the north of Ireland. There, with my open Bible before me, I used to kneel for hours at a time and ask the Spirit of God to reveal Christ to my soul and to open the Word to my heart. He taught me more on my knees on that mud floor than I ever could have learned in all the seminaries or colleges in the world.”
I wanna be like that and I wanna teach our 4 children such an attitude.

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