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(contemplative silence)

And the blushing continues apace—although whether it is due to your general kindness or the thought of sitting around with McB and bunni practicing the cherry-stem thing, I cannot say.  Props once again to the brilliant Julie, who identified these as the sour (a/k/a tart, a/k/a Montmorency, a/k/a pie) cherries that these are.  Sour cherry streusel cake, she said, wide-eyed and dreamily?  Is a recipe forthcoming?

Actually, Tvindy, you weren’t far off the mark.  These are the same cherries as the ones in the Accidental Pie post; it’s just a different picture, a close-up as opposed to the standard shot I used.

nmi, silly boy, these are cherries I bought last summer.  Yes, I like to torture myself in the dead of winter with pictures of food I can’t buy now.  Fortunately, last season found me with more cherries than I could use in a single weekend, so I ended up pitting them, sprinkling sugar on them, putting them in freezer bags and throwing them in the freezer.  I did try making a cherry pie with the frozen cherries, but due to a confluence of mistakes, the pie was not good eating at all.  The good news is that I know what I did wrong, and I have more cherries in the freezer.

Collena, if you need to chase that Warrant earworm out of your head, might I recommend Slade?  All together now:  “I like black and white/Dreaming in black and white/You like black and white/Run, run away./Seeeeeeeee chameleon/Lying there in the sun/All things to everyone/Run, run away.” (ducks, runs away)

To everyone who has asked about Lloyd:  thank you all for your good wishes.  Unfortunately, I don’t have good news yet.  Lloyd has postponed his doctor visit until Tuesday because he really wants to try and shake this thing on his own.  It’s not so bad during the day, but the nights are tough.  The cough is a little better, but he is also having problems with his ear, and those problems are not going away on their own.  This weekend I’m going to make him a hot onion poultice for his ear; it won’t cure infection but it will hopefully relieve the pressure and make him feel a little better.