A Surplus of Cherries

The days go by and I pick cherries twice a day, but still there are cherries on the tree, although now more of them are at the top, where it is harder to reach. So today I had to get the old pool ladder for my cherry picking.

Perched atop the pool ladder, I can reach the very highest cherries.

I wash them and put them in the refrigerator, but not everybody at my place is as excited about having cherries for dessert as they were the first couple of days. So what do you do when people are tired of cherries? I asked my Facebook friends and got these suggestions:

• hide them in ice cream or make sorbet
• bake a cherry cheesecake or a cherry pie
• can them
• pit and freeze them

But today I happened to have a jello mix on hand, so I hid them in jello in tiny plastic shot glasses.

The teen among us thought that was kind of weird, but Bow had a great time trying to figure out how to eat it.