Welcome, maeve:

Be sure to come back. This thread has become what I hoped it would... a great place to stop by, where everyone is welcome, the conversation is good, and the coffee extraordinare. Beats Starbucks, any day. I only drink coffee from Starbucks at gunpoint.
But, perfectly nice people seem to like it.

I went for my early morning walk today and spotted a raspberry that the birds overlooked. I have black raspberries and they've large and sweet. The raspberry bushes along the road where I walk are red raspberries and even though the one I picked was very ripe, it had very little flavor. The birds can have them. Now, I'm keeping my eye on wild grapes that are not quite ripe. The house I owned many years ago was next to a woods, which was all tangled up with grap vines. And nary a grape. These grapes look good. I hope that they have more flavor than the red raspberries.

Jerry