Cherries. Lots of 'em. They made an interesting counterpoint to our beer today... and they were/are good.
I have a couple o' few memories of cherries-past. There's this:
I brake for Cherries!
We did indeed brake for cherries. This particular photo was taken during the Great Northern US Tour of 2000, wherein The Family Sam and YrHmblScrb set off from the Seattle area headed to the east coast across the top of these United States, mostly via US2 (we covered the western leg in its entirety). This pic was shot somewhere in Washington state and we spent the evening after dinner consuming mass quantities of cherries around the fire at our camp site, whereupon Sam (SN2), daughter-in-law Alisa, and Granddaughters Numbers One and Two (in that branch o' the fambly) and I indulged in the usual, customary, and reasonable cherry-pit spitting contest. A good time was had by all.
And then there's the non-illustrated cherry story from 1987 or there 'bouts, wherein The Second Mrs. Pennington, our neighbor The Lovely Miss Lynch (Kim), and I sat out on our patio in Birmingham (a Dee-troit suburb) and consumed mass quantities (gallons) of cherries and waaaay too damned much wine, to the effect of five or six bottles between the three of us. Kim had just returned from a trip up to Michigan's Upper Peninsula, where cherries were in season. She brought back a HUGE amount of same and we ate every single one of 'em while drinking the wine... a nice Bordeaux if memory serves. Miss Lynch weaved her way home... which, being next door wasn't all THAT far... shortly before dawn; TSMP and I stumbled off to bed around the same time. I think.
Oooh. yum yum yum ... love cherries! Especially those huge yellow Rainier ones.
ReplyDeleteOnce upon a time I drank a similar amount of wine...haven't had much taste for it since. :) But! It doesn't sound too bad if it is accompanied by those cherries.
ReplyDeleteCherries are definitely one of my very favorite fruits...OM NOM NOM. I can eat way too many of 'em in one sitting, too.
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ReplyDeleteCherry, Cherry baby...My version of the Frankie's song. I love cherries. Last year I tried to make a pie like my grandmother used to do, but it was only mediocre for all the work put in to pitting the cherries. I guess I used the wrong type cherries. Who knew?
ReplyDeleteCherries are the best -- my kids used to count the days until cherries were in season. Unfortunately, in my neck of the woods, one must secure a second mortgage on one's Mansion in order to be able to afford them.
ReplyDeleteI may have to look into that when I get home to husband and hound.
Drat -- now you've got me thinking about cherries!
And we have some left-overs for today's Happy Hour, too. ;-)
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