[ApplegateRanch]

Oh, yes; about a quart of chokecherry syrup get bottled tonight.

Also helped our friends in town, with whom we stayed the 4 days we were out of here from the fires, ‘steal’ several pounds of apricots from a city park tree along the river-walk in town. Huge tree, about 20’ with a 12+” trunk that fruited for the first time in at least 10 years that they’ve known it was there.

[JustaDumbBlonde]

Well, I'll be darned. When we were in Montana for the 4th, the chokecherries were not even on the trees that I saw. I have some syrup that I canned a couple of years ago. Matter of fact ... I'm thinking pancakes in the morning. :)

I am so thankful that y'all are okay after the fires. Hope they stay away from you.

The heat was miserable in the Bozeman area. People up there just aren't used to that kind of heat and most don't have central air to deal with it. It was only cooling to the high 50's at night. Strange.