On May 11, 7:52*pm, Lin > wrote:
> Bobo Bonobo® *replied to Arri's query:
>
> >> What food item have you tried lately that wasn't really very good?
>
> > Another "cherry" item. *Stone Ridge Creamery Cheery Bordeaux chip ice
> > cream. *The cherry flavor was marachino.
>
> Make this Cherry No. 3 ... Bought the Black Cherry Torani Sugar-Free
> Syrup. Now I know what they use to flavor NyQuil. The other Torani
> Sugar-Frees have been really good, but the black cherry was yucky.
>
> Of course, right now I'm spoiled to real cherry flavor as we've been
> getting our first Bing cherries of the season this week. Their pretty
> good. Bob looks forward to the Ranier cherries -- it shouldn't be too
> long before we see those as well.

Both out sweet cherries and pie cherries are still pea sized. The
apricots are about a half inch and the peaches almost an inch across.

We just planted a Royal Ann and a Ranier. No idea how they'll do in
St. Louis, but hey, if they fail they'll make great grilling wood.
>
> --Lin

--Bryan