The Great Vegas Fruit Crisis
Would you believe that I couldn’t find something as simple as lemonade in the grocery store the other day? Yeah. Totally. Guess Memorial weekend was The Big Lemonade Weekend. It was really weird.
Today I discovered there’s a cherry tree out in the backyard. With cherries. Only problem is that I could reach just one cherry. And it was absolutely delicious! Just one branch with all the fruit; I can’t reach any of it. Sure, I could try to use a ladder, but, c’mon. You know me and my track record. Put me on a ladder and it’s basically ensuring disaster. So I stood below the tree, bare feet on very pointy rocks, and gazed upward, praying for the fruit to fall off and into my hands. Didn’t happen.
Tomorrow I will endeavor to find lemonade and a way in which to retrieve those cherries.
What’s out of your reach these days?
I can picture you, standing below the branches and looking up, waiting for a cherry to fall.
Do you have a broom you could wave around in the branches and maybe coax a few down? That’s the way we did it in the olden days… rake, broom, pitchfork. It’s all good.
OH, in your quest for the ade essence of the notorious lemon, do not fall prey to Edy’s frozen Lemonade bars. They do not taste like sweet/sour nectar of the gods to me…
Comment by Pam — 2010/06/03 @ 04:49
Sanity.
Comment by Jan — 2010/06/03 @ 08:42
Cherry. Lemonade. Together. OMG.
And what’s out of my reach? Too much to list here.
Comment by Mrs. Who — 2010/06/05 @ 21:02
I’d love to put the cherries in the lemonade. That would be delish! It’s been too hot to go out to pick anything though. It’s 9pm and 99 degrees. You can pretty much guess how hot it was earlier.
Everything good always seems to be out of reach. I think that’s written in stone somewhere.
Comment by DaGoddess — 2010/06/05 @ 21:10
I was going to say speak softly and carry a long stick – but pam beat me to it.
Comment by patti — 2010/06/07 @ 07:22