On 2015-09-20, Janet B > wrote:

> to be able to go to the store and get frozen fruit for a pie when the
> whim strikes.

Besides, the peach/nectarine crops are pitiful, this yr. No matter
which I buy, they all seem to be dry and pithy. Not juicy, like I
remember.

No doubt due to the water shortage. CA usta rival GA for peaches. I
grew up in CAs Stanislaus Co, once considered the peach capital of the
World (to hear them tell it). That was back in the day when CA had
plenty o' water and orchards would routinely be watered by flooding
the entire orchard 6-12 inches deep a couple times per season. Those
days are long gone.

I have a buncha frozen blue/black berries, which I bought fresh.
Almost too many. I need to make some blue/blackberry pies.

nb