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Skriven 2015-06-20 17:53:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE DRUM
Ärende: Re: cherries
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-=> Quoting Dave Drum to Nancy Backus on 06-18-15  06:51 <=-

 DD>> Cherry was my grandmother's maiden name ....   Bv)=
 NB>> Indeed..?

 DD> And her mother's maiden name was McCarver --- all moving inland from
 DD> the Carolinas. The other Granny's maiden name was Chowning (as in the
 DD> tavern people from Williamsbug, VA) but I never got to meet her as she
 DD> died before I was born. A lot of bits of family history got stuck in
 DD> my head over the years. But, Georgia is the one who unsnarls the
 DD> threads and keeps track of that sort of thing.

Someone has to...  :)  I'm generally the one that does it for our
family, and even then it's hard to keep track of it all..  :)
 
 NB>> Nice mixed orchard...  :)   When we lived in Willow Grove (PA, outside
 NB>> Philly) we had an ancient apple tree that still had reasonably good
 NB>> apples, mostly we picked up the windfalls... We also had a couple of
 NB>> short sour cherry trees that even I could easily climb to pick the
 NB>> fruit... They produced enough for a few pies each... a treat when they
 NB>> came in season..  :)   Mommy had us pick, wash and pit the cherries...

 DD> My grandmother had a hand-cranked cherry stoner. I wish I knew where
 DD> it got to. 

I've seen various versions of cherry stoners, mostly hand-cranked, for
sale at Wegmans... never bothered with that, though... but then, never
was doing anything like that in bulk anymore...  :)

 DD> Knowing her it probably got tossed or given to a passing
 DD> stranger. She actually paid the local trash guy a fair whack of
 DD> green-backed dollars to haul off a huge trove of Mason jars from
 DD> half-pint up to a gallon - some with glass closures. He hauled them
 DD> off to an antique shop and flogged them for even more $$$$.

He got himself a real deal there... 

ttyl        neb

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