{"id":2424,"date":"2025-07-22T11:37:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/?p=2424"},"modified":"2025-07-22T11:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T16:44:34","slug":"georges-cherry-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iowappa.com\/?p=2424","title":{"rendered":"George’s cherry tree"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>George Powers had two cherry trees on his property. He had a few other fruit trees, but those trees didn\u2019t produce like the cherry trees. George lived two houses south of us. I would walk through Johanna Scanlon\u2019s property next door, go over the fence, which was almost hidden by undergrowth and up against some of the best rhubarb in town, and onto George\u2019s property. The cherry trees were just on the other side of the fence.<\/p>\n

I know George didn\u2019t plant the trees; they were fully grown and I don\u2019t think he lived there with his family all that long.<\/p>\n

I would climb into the tree and sit on a branch, reach out and begin harvesting cherries, spitting seeds onto the ground beneath me. These cherries were the bright red tart type, not the meaty dark red variety found in grocery stores. If they were poisoned with chemicals, I wouldn\u2019t have cared. I never got sick, even considering the amount of fruit I ate.<\/p>\n

A memory spark ignited when I saw cherry juice at COSTCO. Two half-gallon jugs cost $9.99. To me, that\u2019s a bargain. Since I was a kid, I have not tasted anything close to the taste of George\u2019s cherries. The cherry juice at COSTCO has all the tartness of George\u2019s cherries. And the juice at COSTCO has no added sugars or preservatives. The only ingredient is tart cherry juice. I mix it with a bit of water; carbonated water, when I have it on hand.<\/p>\n

Cherry is my favorite flavor. Whenever I\u2019m in a place that has a soda fountain, I will always order a cherry phosphate. I ate Luden\u2019s and Smith Brother\u2019s cherry cough drops even when I didn\u2019t have a cough. I love cherry pie, cherry turnovers, and cherry everything. Stephanie and I had cherry cider at our wedding, purchased from Small\u2019s Fruit Farm in Mondamin, Iowa.<\/p>\n

We have apple trees, a pear tree, a peach tree, and blackberry and black raspberry bushes in our yard. However, for some reason, we have no cherry trees. We did have a cherry bush. It was weird; there were no stems, just small cherries. It may have been a Canadian variety. If we did have a cherry tree in the back yard, I can imagine some kid would sit in a tree in the back yard spitting seeds out on the lawn.<\/p>\n

One day, I was sitting in George\u2019s tree enjoying the cherries when George came out on the back porch and yelled at me. \u201cYou damn kids get out of that tree!\u201d I was the only one there. \u2018Ha!\u2019 I thought. \u2018The joke\u2019s on you. There\u2019s no one here but me and a few birds.\u2019 I was going to wait for him to come down off the porch before I made a decision. He went back into the house.<\/p>\n

Oh, how I miss those cherries.<\/p>\n

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