Rice,Rain and Blackberries

On Sunday,I took Vincent on my 30mile bikeride,which was amazing....Vincent loved it!...When we got to the halfway point at Hyde Park,we had lunch at an amazing Southen restaurant called "Big Easy",where we had Stella's,Gumbo and BBQ chicken.....on the way home,about a mile and a half away from Elaine Place,the skies suddenly changed from sunny to DARK.....(typical Chicago) and it started pouring,thunder,rainstorms...You name it,it came out of the sky.....Vincent had my ( or so I thought) "waterproof" backpack on his back,with our blackberries.....

When we got home,I opened up the backpack....and it had about an inch of rainwater in it,and our blackberries were sloshing around in it....

So I quickly took out the batteries,and then googled "wet blackberries" real quick,and found out that if you put the blackberries in a sealed pot of uncooked rice,in a warm place for 3days,it should dry them out.....so I put the sealed pot of rice with the blackberries in the oven.(No,not turned on you nitwits....)

I will give you an update on Wednesday....in the meantime,I got our old phones out,and thank Budha,our simcards still worked,so we can still communicate,albeit on "old" phones....

Oh,the technology of today.....I am felling old and creakely......