Tag: cherries

  • Midsummer sights

    Midsummer sights

    For the first time in anybody’s memory around here, the height of the season has actually arrived by the time the official solstice declared it “summer.” And as if on cue, it’s summer around our house, too. So it seemed fitting to take a break from the more pressing repairs on our new house and…

  • With a cherry on top

    With a cherry on top

    Picture a Chuck-E-Cheese-ball-pit-sized vat of pie cherries: that’s what our kitchen feels like right now. The Tailor loves fresh sour pie cherries with a fiery passion, but they don’t grow well in western Washington (not enough sun). And they’re both hard to transport commercially (thin skins) and not super popular with folks under the age…