When My Man Wants a Cherry Pie...

Vern's only wish for his birthday is ALWAYS a cherry pie - and I refuse to make one with canned cherries. I'm actually not that great of a pie maker, BUT if you have the best cherries, it is wonderfully good. One year, I actually drove an hour clear out to one of the farms, knocked on their door and bought frozen cherries out of their personal freezer - much to Vern's embarrassment! (I love the Greenbluff Farmers) This year, my Greenbluff Farms stash of cherries - a gift from my good friend Barb Ifft - was depleted, so I began emailing the farmers on the bluff to see if anyone had a stash leftover in their freezers. Two sweet people emailed me back and offered a pint here and a pint there. At last I discovered a 30 pound, five gallon bucket of pie cherries at our local URM Store!!  Brought it home, broke up the cherries and placed them in 11, one-gallon storage bags with 6-7 cups each and made a big PIE tonight with 8 cups of cherries. It is supposed to be for his birthday tomorrow, but we had to sample it! Yum... You will see his happy face at the bottom :)