And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
For a while my mom and step-dad rented an old farmhouse with two cherry trees in the backyard. Every bird within 10 miles knew those trees and exactly when the cherries would be ripe.
No worms? Obviously not organic....
ReplyDeletei like the yellow ones from Yakima, WA the best. like eating sugar cubes.
ReplyDeleteNot here it's not.
ReplyDelete2 fruits I will not eat in anything let alone by themselves: cherries and apricots.
ReplyDelete?? A strange statement. Why won't you eat cherries and apricots?
DeleteYou already do, and have been all along.
DeleteIsn't it about time for the cheerry festial in Traverse City?
ReplyDeleteI was an adult the first time I had a fresh, non-Maraschino, cherry.
ReplyDeleteMy first thought was why do they screw these up by marinating them.
Since I was a kid, I have always look forward to when cherries, apricots & peaches ripened.
ReplyDeleteFor a while my mom and step-dad rented an old farmhouse with two cherry trees in the backyard. Every bird within 10 miles knew those trees and exactly when the cherries would be ripe.
ReplyDeleteSweet, wet, and wormy?
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