>>>>>>>>No milk at the stores -- high seas resulted in delayed delivery. I guess first shipments are going to hospitals and schools. Seems like there is always somethin amiss on tiny island...lol
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>>>>>>>Drink water :)
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>>>>>>Ever tried cold breakfast cereal with water instead of milk?
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>>>>>Beer, then?
>>>>>... ouch.
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>>>>I do remember seeing such a thing back at university when I lived in the dorms.
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>>>Ah, it took me half an hour to remember what I wanted to ask you, as the day is coming soon... cherry blossom, nice, attended a couple of times (japanese community in Virginia Beach is still strong) but now I realized that I don't know the main fact. Is it sweet or sour cherry? As they are separate species.

I was a "nonresident" for tax purposes resident of Hampton, VA for several years.

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>>I'm not sure about sweet or sour but most of the decorative cherry trees produce small hard cherries that are barely - if at all - edible.
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>Then I'd say sour (višnja), they are more closely related to those wilder sorts. Though the japanese embassy here was giving away saplings on the day a few years ago, and all the reporters translated those as sweet cherry (trešnja), but that could be by pure inertia, as it's always translated so.
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>Well, waiting for mine to blossom... in a few weeks. And then to make brandy of them - mostly the sour, having more sugar, but actually the craziest result I got was with 25% sweet and 75% sour... Because of the names, I call that brandy hare trišnja :).
FYI Sour Cherry trees such as Montmorency cherries are self pollinating and produce fruit when a single cherry tree is planted, however, sweet cherries require a separate cherry cultivar to produce fruit. The rule for sweet cherry cross pollination is to plant a light colored sweet cherry to cross pollinate another sweet light colored cherry. Likewise, plant a dark Bing sweet cherry tree to pollinate dark Black Tartarian sweet cherry trees.

They are picky. I have tried to grow them here in Florida but I never had much luck. My peach trees ( pink blooms) and pear trees (white blooms) are both in full bloom now.