On 2019-07-28 12:20 a.m., graham wrote:

> Your last sentence reminds me that when the kids were young, my ex and I
> would camp in the Okanagan. We would buy whatever fruit was in season
> and then set up a canning "station" on the barbecue sites on the public
> beach. I suppose some people thought we were crazy but we had lots of
> raspberries, peaches and apricots in the middle of our awful winters.

One year we went out to BC and visited with my old friend who had just
moved from Bamfield to Vernon. We were out for a drive and came across a
pick your own sour cherry orchard. We picked enough for a couple pies
and went back to the house and baked them for my friend and his kids.
They had never had sour cherry pie before and loved it.