When the boys started stoning the cherries we picked yesterday and I remembered the theme this week is Hands, I couldn't resist....
Question: If you give two boys a bowl of cherries to stone, what happens next?
(a) Your entire kitchen is splattered with cherry juice
(b) There is a cherry stone fight in your garden
(c) Both boys and every item of clothing they are wearing need to be boil-washed
(d) Your entire bathroom is splattered with cherry juice
(e) All of the above
Luckily the resulting Summer Pudding was really really yummy!
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red."
Macbeth, from Shakespeare's Macbeth; Act II, Scene 2.
Love this shot for this week's theme! I'm with Bill on the sitting outdoors and eating the cherries...but if you share your recipe I might be tempted to give it a try ...but I think I will pit the cherries myself since my boys are off on their own now and no longer help me with such chores ;-)...remember that time tunnel you posted of the other day...seems like only yesterday my guys were the age of Will and Ed!
What will power (no pun intended) to prepare all the cherries for pudding...they look so perfect, and would be so easy to eat on the spot! Wonderful theme photo to go with your funny commentary!
The splatters are very artistic, and I really like this picture. I figured that one of the choices (and the one I would pick) would be that they ate at least half the cherries. I have a cherry pitter, and it still splatters juice everywhere! Of course, if the juice didn't splatter, the cherries would be dry.
Interesting quote of Macbeth,I almost forgot about that play.