Little Entrepreneurs!

This year we had a bumper crop of cherries!!! Our tree was actually loaded to the ground. Try mowing the lawn under the branches laden down with ripe or over ripe cherries:-( I must confess neither Les nor I are fruit farmers, we know "NOTHING, NADA" about pruning or spraying trees. (Don't ask me why we even bought fruit trees!) The cherry tree has grown HUGE which for one good thing provides our back yard with great shade, but, that is about the only good thing! The ground is always covered with cherries. And the d--- birds (I'm sure it's just as bad to think the word as it is to say it) carry the cherries in their mouths, fly over the deck and drop them...Yuckie!!! Anyway we were out of town the week the cherries turned ripe. Ashlyn, Dave and the kids were helping Grandma and Grandpa Robb have a yard sell. In the past when we had our video yard sells we would sell cherries for $1.00 a bag until one time a little neighbor boy came back and said, "Your cherries have worms in them." Les gave him back his money and an extra $5.00 to help the kid feel better about eating wormy cherries. Les had sprayed and sprayed but the cherries still get worms in them. You open up this beautiful, sweet, delicious cherry and there would be one little teeny tiny white worm hiding behind the pit, not in every cherry but who wants to open all their cherries before they eat them. Ashlyn and Dave checked the cherries and didn't find any worms so they came and picked them and sold 26 bags of cherries for $1.50 a bag. Les picked more when we got home and the kids sat on their yard and sold them all. So Les decided to pick more the next day and the kids were going to sit out on our yard and sell them along with ice cold pop. (That beats lemonade because people never know what the kids stirred the drink with (a dirty little hand or what.) As we were picking, Dave started checking the cherries, "Oh, Oh," he said. "I found a worm!" We all started checking more cherries and sure enough not in all the cherries but in 3 out of ten there was that creepy little worm. The kids were disappointed because they wanted to earn more money so we went to the store and bought more pop and Ice. We Loaded up the ice chest with pop and they sat out front of the house in the afternoon as people we going home from work and sold Pop.

We started setting up for the pop stand when what to our wondering eyes should appear but the little neighbor girl across the street ran out and started setting up a snow cone stand! Jake said, "Oh great!!! Now we have competition." I told him that competition was good because people who didn't want a snow cone would buy a pop from he and Lily.They didn't sell as much pop as they would have liked but they had fun doing it and made new friends in the neighborhood as well.