It's Not As Crazy As It Sounds......

Sunday we picked cherries

so today I made strawberry jam.

Which really DOES make sense, I promise.  We still have a fair bit of cherry jam from last year, so we picked about half the amount of cherries this year, and I am freezing most of them just to have for snacks or smoothies, but the freezer was already rather full of strawberries which I have been picking every few days but hadn't had time to turn into jam, so in order to make room for the cherries, some of the strawberries needed to come out, so......

9 more jars of strawberry-balsamic vinegar jam.  It's amazing stuff.  And

in spite of the heat (and the fact that it's July), we're still getting a little trickle of strawberries.  They're a bit small, but they are really sweet.  I understood that our June-bearing strawberries would produce berries only in June, and that the ever-bearing would produce in June & later in the summer.  These are obviously from the over-achievers of the strawberry patch.  I wonder if I could get them to talk to the blueberries...........