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Default What does Summer taste like?

Dave Smith wrote:
> Jean B. wrote:
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>> I gather the strawberry crop has really suffered. Corn too. Hasn't
>> the weather been ghastly? But then I think of folks who don't have
>> water....

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> I am glad that I made my strawberry jam last week when the weather was
> nice. The berries were small, dark and sweet and made wonderful jam. It
> has rained almost every day since, and it supposed to rain all week. The
> local sweet cherries probably won't be very good. The cherries burst
> when they have too much rain.


Sniff. My daughter really loves cherries.

I seem to recall that the overwatered berries taste relatively,
er, watery?

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Jean B.