Apricots and other fruit

Back in April we had a snowstorm. I thought it was going to be the n'th year in which we lost all the fruit on our little apricot tree. It turns out that wasn't the case.

Winnie has spent the last couple days picking apricots and turning them into jam and syrup (Glazed chicken! Yum!) . Now, if we can just figure out what to do with the last 100 or so that are sitting in the dining room...

Unfortunately, we lost a pear tree this year to fire blight. We bought a blight resistant replacement, but it will be a year or two until it's big enough to help much with the cross-pollination. I may get another, so we have three different varieties.

I also spent one long evening pitting over 750 cherries (yes, I counted) that Winnie picked off of our two sour cherry trees.

The blueberries are also coming along, and we should have a bumper crop this year (see photo).