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Damon Hill  
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 More options Jul 6 2008, 5:07 am
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
From: Damon Hill <damon1S...@comcast.netnet>
Date: Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:07:50 -0500
Local: Sun, Jul 6 2008 5:07 am
Subject: Re: first blackberries of the season
Eeyore <rabbitsfriendsandrelati...@hotmail.com> wrote in
news:486FFF39.DCB1277D@hotmail.com:

> John Larkin wrote:

>> We scored a couple of cups in a lane nearby, so I made a pie. Mo
>> calls it "Pie Descending a Staircase."

>> ftp://66.117.156.8/Pie.JPG

>> There are tons of flowers and green berries, so it should be a good
>> year. We're going to need a lot of vanilla gelato.

> My garden is full of them. Too many to be honest but the wildlife love
> the cover and my neighbour likes it because it helps her bird
> spotting. She says it's attracted some quite rare species in recent
> years. We have one hell of a 'dawn chorus' here some days. I heard
> such a fascinating birdsong abour 3 mo. ago I was seriously tempted to
> get my MD and record it. It was astonishing. I just stood there for 5
> -10 minutes rivetted by it. I can think of worse worse ways of being
> woken up.

Meanwhile, my strawberries were a full three weeks late coming in and
the blackberries (the local kudzu) won't ripen until late August.  But
we should be enjoying lots of cobbler by then.  We had an unusually
wet and cold spring (with two feet of fresh snow in the mountains during
the first half of June).

Hey, don't diss the pie crust; that looks like a proper cobbler...

--Damon, livin' in the Pacific Northwet, and it is...


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