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Adventures of a Modern Day, Middle-Aged Hero, on the Glory Road(to family security)

6.19.2012

It's that time of year!

My wife and kids headed out today to take advantage of one of the huge pluses of living in an agricultural area...the local U-Pick, Ray French Orchard.  The first crop of the year is ready to start harvesting(well, fruit crop...asparagus was ready a few months ago), so my wife came home with 15 pounds of Benton Cherries today.  She also has a friend with a Bing Cherry tree in her front yard, who is letting my wife have dibs on the whole tree in exchange for a few jars of whatever she makes.

By the time I made it home, she already had everything washed and de-stemmed. 




After dinner, she started on pitting the cherries, using her new 'four at a time' pitter that she bought yesterday.  She liked it, finding it much better than the single punch style, although she did say that she would have a bought a 12-at-a-time pitter if they had one...



I look forward to coming home tomorrow to the smell of canning cherries...

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