Cherry Pickers Anonymous

Mrs. post just picked our first blueberry bucket of the season! We've got a few good bushes. =]

chocolate, cherries, and cookies: the triple crown of thoroughbread baking

we make our own ice cream at work. Currently sweet corn ice cream is the garnish on our sweetcorn blueberry compote cake.

Maybe we should all go apple picking instead?


Then again, maybe not...

Just took the last batch of very basic cinnamon cookies out of the oven,,

There are plenty of other fruits

I prefer feijoas, they are bigger and tastier, and you can just pick them off the ground cos they fall off

In Japan they have a cherry blossom festival but they are only ornamental cherry trees they dont actually celebrate the fruit, just the flowers.

I think for such a huge tree and tiny fruit its not really worth to pick them with an expensive cherry picker machine. Leave them for the birds. Birds can do a better job than we can.

I like cherries but you can only eat so much. It may be one if the 12 fruits grafted in tree of life though.
I think one needs variety in their diet of fruits, not just have one fruit, because its a short season. Have a fruit salad.

I like a good plum.
They are difficult to come by most days.
You might have 29 varieties of apples and still no plums in the supermarket lately.

Ain't much in the way of cherries lately either.

The oranges look like junk too.

*sigh* it's difficult to be going backwards instead of forwards.

amen it’s integral to the power structure of the church on earth

“Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls. And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers. And fear came upon every soul: and many wonders and signs were done by the apostles. And all that believed were together, and had all things common; and sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need. And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.”
‭‭Acts‬ ‭2:41-47‬ ‭

to fear man is wrong to have a healthy reverent fear of the almighty is Christianity 101

Cherries have just the right size seed to spit and your little brother . Ya kinda bite em then they sorta pop out

The season is short
apples last longer and can coolstore them

Plums you do need to get them before the birds do, theres a slim window to pick them, but they are bigger


Oranges need to pick in season...with fruit you cannot alwayss expect them to be available year round. They are best when its their time to be best.

What you need is your own plum tree =]

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Well that would require property ownership.
And that usually means a house. Which means home ownership...which makes me available for maintenance, lawn mowing, mortgage (albeit a small one), and all kinds of things that I really don't want to get involved with. And look at the HOA's these days....they are nuts.
And if I move to the country it's a LOT of gas to and from work. At $7-$9/gal coming this Fall....that's a lot of money for something that I should be able to pick up at the local grocery.

And even if I did happen to spend all that money and time...trees ripen in a short window as @Lanolin has stated...which I usually will turn into jam and schnapps....which for whatever reason the government then wants to get all involved with.

Too much gubberment involvement in my life.

There's this thing with wild blueberries and farm made maple syrup....omg....it's really spensive but so very very good at the same time.

It's good that I don't have any...I might become a growing boy again. 'Cept growing sideways instead of taller.

Sorry to the OP but this has to be one of the best BDF threads ever. lol Now where do I find this spensive syrup, sounds like my hubby would love it!! Maybe he'll the other way when I shop Hobby Lobby. rofl.

As I said in my initial response here, a text, out of context, is a pretext.

With such in mind, I might as well get this party (or lynching) started by giving an actual example of what I mean.

There are so many different verses of scripture that I've heard "quoted" totally out of context over the years, but this one might be the one that I've heard pulled out of context the most, so it's the one that I'm going to comment on now.

In context, the verse that I'm about to cite has an EXTREMELY NEGATIVE MEANING.

How extremely negative?

So extremely negative that it's actually describing why certain people were not saved, but lost instead.

However, I've personally heard this verse "quoted" totally out of context dozens of times (at least) where it has wrongly been given an EXTREMELY POSITIVE MEANING instead.

(He pauses momentarily to strap on his spiritual armor)

Without further ado, here is the verse that I'm referring to:

"For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:" (Isaiah 28:10)

Before documenting its actual meaning in context, let me tell you how I've heard this verse interpreted/used by professing Christians dozens (at least) of times over the last 33 1/2 years since I became a Christian.

Every single time I've ever heard it "quoted", it's been used in a positive sense or in the sense that we, as Christians, basically need to form our beliefs or lay out our arguments by having "precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little". In other words, we take a portion of scripture from here, and add it to a portion of scripture from somewhere else, etc., etc., and then we form our beliefs or present our arguments accordingly.

Now, unless I'm living on a completely different planet than the rest of you, I have to believe that at least one of you has heard this portion of scripture interpreted/used in this manner, and some of you may have interpreted it or used it in exactly this manner yourselves.

Here's the problem.

This is not at all what it means in context, and, again, it actually has an EXTREMELY NEGATIVE MEANING as I'll now document.

Here is the verse when it's NOT cherry-picked out of context, but when it's actually read in context:

Isaiah chapter 28

[9] Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.
[10] For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little:
[11] For with stammering lips and another tongue will he speak to this people.
[12] To whom he said, This is the rest wherewith ye may cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.
[13] But the word of the LORD was unto them precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little; that they might go, and fall backward, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

IN CONTEXT, this verse is actually talking about certain Jews who "would not hear", and who refused the rest wherewith God causes the weary to rest, and the refreshing, THAT THEY MIGHT GO, AND FALL BACKWARD, AND BE BROKEN, AND SNARED, AND TAKEN.

Got it?

In fact, this "rest" is the rest that is found in Christ whom they rejected while seeking to be justified by the law instead or while following "precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little".

Matthew chapter 11

[28] Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
[29] Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.
[30] For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

Furthermore, Paul quoted Isaiah 28:11 in his first epistle to the Corinthians in relation to the gift of speaking in tongues when he said:

I Corinthians chapter 14

[21] In the law it is written, With men of other tongues and other lips will I speak unto this people; and yet for all that will they not hear me, saith the Lord.
[22] Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.

Again, IN CONTEXT, Isaiah 28:10 is talking about certain Jews who not only rejected the rest which is found only in Christ while embracing the law instead, but who also missed the refreshing of the Holy Spirit because they would not hear, and whose end was to GO, AND FALL BACKWARD, AND BE BROKEN, AND SNARED, AND TAKEN.

Here's the saddest part of all that I'll say in this post:

I've personally pointed this out to dozens (at least) of professing Christians over the last 33 1/2 years, and not one of them could care less.

Does that describe you?

Do you believe that you're at liberty to just make God's word say whatever you want it to say?

Have you no fear of God whatsoever?

Anyhow, this is but one of dozens of examples of cherry-picking a verse out of its actual context that I could give.

Let the chips (or the hand grenades) fall where they may...

I like that - the pricky people forum.

Sort of what Clinton said once, "It depends on what the definition of 'is' is.