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9th July, 2009. 11:48 pm. [Martha] Sour cherries: less wormy than last year
I'm going to thank our unexpected deep freeze. Last year, the cherries were scarce and unusable. This year, although a few had the nasty little buggers, they appear to be mostly clean. Had I bothered to put up lures, I might have had an entirely useful crop. Alas.
(I didn't put up lures because even the low hanging fruit is about 6' up in the air, the tree's not stout enough to climb, and I go all Fox-and-Grapes over it after a while.)
Anyhow, this evening I scrambled up the tree and balanced on the top of our privacy fence because the temptation to at lest check the cherries was too great. I managed to get enough less-high-hanging fruit (calling it low is a joke) to make a small amount of something, and a couple pounds of sour cherries are currently sitting, sugared, with half a vanilla bean.
I'm not going to bother, I don't think, trying to climb up on the garage roof to get a handful of the sweet cherries from the tree that grows up against the garage. It doesn't have a lot on it, the crows have staked claim, and last year, I kind of got stuck in it.
For those of you with cherries, how do you prevent/deal with cherry fruit fly larvae? I've searched the internet, but it hasn't told me much of any usefulness, and I can't count on another population-reducing deep freeze this winter.
(Realistically, both trees should go in the next few years. They're both in awful places for trees. But while I have them, I should use them, right?)
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9th July, 2009. 10:10 pm. here are some things
HEY THERE ARE SOME AWESOME MEMES GOING AROUND, HUH? :D? :D?
If you wanted to do one, that would be pretty awesome, because I like talking about things I have written.
1. Inspired by Doctor Who's "Turn Left:" Pick one of my stories and tell me a point in the tale that you'd change. Something tiny (e.g. "and then Fay chose silver glitter instead of gold") or big (e.g. "and then Rose was arrested instead of Jack") and I'll tell you how that one difference would have altered the course of the entire story.
2. Pick any of my stories (well, most of them are there. But if you remember any of the ones that aren't yet, go ahead and use them( and write the WORST possible description of it, and then I have to guess which one it is.
Everything I wrote between Feb 02 and Feb 07 is here. Everything since then is either here or here.
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