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Skriven 2009-01-05 11:48:55 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
  Kommentar till text 18925 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
Ärende: cherries  was: ambrosia
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-=> Quoting hap newsom to Nancy Backus on 02 Jan 09  08:40:24 <=-

Looking at some older messages, and realized I'd forgotten to answer
some...  (and doing some testing to see if a recently reincarnated bbs
is working properly... )

 hn> Having a cherry tree is a mixed blessing!
 hn> When the cherries get ripe the birds 
 hn> do get some, but the silly tree I have 
 hn> is prolific in production. So much so that
 hn> it's hard to keep up with all the cherries!

How big is the tree?  When I was a kid, we had a small sour cherry tree
in the back yard... when it started to produce, it kept us busy for a
little while... picking, washing, pitting, eating...  (G)

 hn> If too many cherries fall off the tree they
 hn> get hard to pick up out of the grass, and 
 hn> if they don't get picked up they start to 
 hn> ferment...and soon they attract bees..
 hn> well not bees so much as bald faced 
 hn> hornets! The hornets imbibe freely of
 hn> the fermented cherry and get drunk!!

Yeah... I can see where that becomes quite a mixed blessing.. :)

 hn> And hornets are NOT nice friendly on
 hn> the best of occaisions, give em a good
 hn> likkering up on cherry booze and they are 
 hn> MEAN drunks!! No one dares to go into 
 hn> the back yard at that point because as
 hn> soon as they spot you they are ALL over you!

One should never encourage MEAN drunks to get likkered up!

 hn> We usually put tarps down under 
 hn> the tree so we can clean up the cherries
 hn> that fall every day! We pick and freeze 
 hn> lots but the tree is always way ahead of us! (grin)

Must be a pretty big tree... (G)  Maybe you should enlist the aid of all
your neighbors... or do they have their own cherry trees to worry about?

 -> But I DO like fresh cherries... of all sorts...  :)  
 -> 
 hn> I like cherries well enough, not the biggest
 hn> fan, but they're ok, like blueberries. Anne 
 hn> however absolutely loves both cherries and
 hn> blueberries!

I'm with Anne.  :)   Maybe if I got surfeited often enough I'd back down
some, but that hasn't happened yet.  ;)

ttyl     neb

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