How's your memory?

Lets see. Are you talking about years ago or now? My memory was great a few years back. Today I can't remember from one day to the next. I got up go into the kitchen by the time I got there it was gone what I was getting. I made three trips before I got what I went after. I think we all have too much on our plate to keep the memory moving freely. Have a great day and keep up the good work mental. Keep smiling.

A bad memory can give you some very nice surprises! I'm glad you have more trees than you thought--if you have more than you can handle I'll bet a soup kitchen would love to have them (if gov't regulations doesn't prevent your donation! ). I don't like cherries, they are so sour. I like the texture but the flavor is really awful. Too bad, because I would love to have something healthy like that to enjoy snacking on. My mom loved cherries but even though I tried them every year, I have never liked that sour fruit. My memory has more trouble short term. If I don't write down a checklist when I leave the house I end up turning around to check the stove, the oven or something else I may have left on. I have to write down "oven off-stove off-PC off-dogs watered", etc. and take it with me. I usually put the time and day, too, because I've done it and wondered if I picked up an old list!

My memory can be shocking but then there are useless bits of information it holds onto that will never come in handy, but when i see someone whos name i know i am suppossed to know i go blank. I love cherries and have 1 smally cherry tree in the backyard we only planted a few years ago and this summer we got about a dozen from the entire tree. but it is only early days for the tree and there is only like 3 main branches on it. We have lots of lavender and a wattle tree near the cherry tree and i think the birds and Bees these plants attract helped germinate our fruit trees, cant wait to see how many we get next year. and how big it ends up when i am an old lady... lol

hi mentalward oh I do love cherries and stuck here in this tiresone retirement center I have not seen a cherry here in two years I have been here. great on canned crap like canned syrupy peaches and pairs. once we actually had fresh pineapple. they must have lost their minds that day. applesforget oranges are for snacks grape rarely. alot of us buy fresh fruit and veggies and eat them in our rooms.are ramoer cherries those with y ellow flesh that are very very sweet? yuck but I love dark bing cherries thagt we get in our California markets.They have a bit more tang to them. but all cherries are really great for you to eat. Here in California we have not had any rain lately but earlier in the year we got more rain than we had in years so now our water table is full and overflowing too. We had some fruit trees when we had our own house and a huge avocado tree and some cherries and plum trees. we had a loquat tree and it bore like crazy but for me the fruit is really gross,just plain yucky.

My memory is ok...it's just that there is a lot to remember..lol...I am tired of the rain and the cold. Just when we started to warm up...a cold snap comes through and we have a frost warning tonight. I don't have fruit trees..but I have a load of flowers that might suffer from tonight. I remember when I was little, the neighbors had a yard full of fruit trees. They hardly ever picked the fruit and when I would play with their children, I would try some. They didn't mind at all either. Looking back..I should have taken some home. The bees were terrible once the fruit started to fall off the trees. They had apple and pear trees. My favorite was the grape vines and the cherry tree though. I have always wanted to strawberries. I have been told they are hard to grow though. Blueberries would be awesome too.

Honestly, I now feel I have company. Somebody told me avoiding sugar can be disastrous for memory. So sugar is back into my diet, but not excessive amount. Cant say I am bad at all times. But I am. It is like today I have to do this. I'd remember. Tomorrow I might think did I complete that work? :)

I do have problems with my memory. I am on certain medications and they have an effect on my memory. Well done for getting cherries on your trees that must be an amazing feeling. I am not good with planting anything so well done. You will probably enjoy them more because you have grown them yourself also.

Oh my word. I am so jealous right now. I love cherries! And now my mouth is watering for them. I have to start checking the supermarket for them.

Gosh Marti I'm so far behind!!!! Ahhhhh!!!! LOL Oh I'll catch up eventually but good grief, I'm behind.... lol.... Anyway, we have an avacado tree growing really well that I expect to have lots of avacados coming out of our ears in the next year or two. Hubby had to put a fence around it to keep our dogs from tearing it up like they did my Weeping Willow tree. We got another one and it has a fence around it too! lol Plus we did had about 15 tomato plants.... lol We dug up about 10 of them and gave them to my parents because mom LOVES tomatoes. The reason we had so many is because of last years plants, the seeds from bad tomatoes which grew into more vines plus my hard headed husband didn't think they'd come up and bought two more Boy was he fooled! LOL He bought some cabbage and cucumber plants too and they're all growing great! Happy Happy Gardening My Friend!

You have cherries? I'm jealous... My memory has gone from remembering every little thing, to only remembering the things that are important to me. I now have to repeat names 3 or 4 times before they stick, and technical words go in one ear and out the other. One former boss of mine said that it was a matter of volume vs. capacity. Yeah, I'm tired of rain. It's stopped here. Maybe that's why we don't have cherries.

well im totally not a gardener but the memory probs i have been dealing with i SWEAR has gotten worse the last three months.. i cant figure out if its the freaking weather or what but its driving me nuts!

Hey Marty, How exciting!! I too am a cherry lover and cherry pie, preserves and anything made with cherries I can't resist! Now, I used to have 2 huge cherry trees where I lived in the Mountains of Ca. Those were my Hippie days. I also had 40 apple trees, 2 pear trees, wild blackberry bushes, Concord grapes, as well as Green grapes. I was in heaven. These were all very mature trees and vines. There is one caution about your Cherry trees. I never tasted one single cherry due to the birds stripping the trees bare!! It was heart breaking! So take care. And good eating. Love Ya, Leenie

Mine sucks too. I can't even remember the story of a movie that I had watched months ago nor the title of that movie. I have a short term memory, I can only remember things happened in a month but after that, I can't remember most of it. Even names and faces of people I met, I forget them easily. When I was in college I need to memorize all the things I wrote in my notes so I can answer the exam. funny to think because if I ever forget where did I wrote it, I will not remember it at all.

My memory sucked too zoo I started eating blueberries and it helped alot now I can remember WAY better (:

Take a deep rest and long one or perhaps go to vacation that will help you so much

I am so glad I found this discussion while searching before starting one similar. I havve really enjoyed reading all the comments thus far and I feel an instant sense of rapport here with the group on this discussion. It seems we should be having a cup of tea together around a table full of cherry and apple pies to share. First, it's nice to know I'm not the only one with the memory problems. But that's been pretty well covered. Mentalward, your fruit trees make me green with envy. We used to have a red delicious apple tree that had the best apples ever when we moved here. Last year it split down the middle. We were able to save part of it and it has some small apples this year, but we didn't get one of them because of the deer. The deer also ate all the apples from the other apple tree. Something also ate all our grapes this year inside the fenced area that keeps deer out, so it must have been the squirrels that ate all of last year's garden, or the racoons. We did get a few yellow pear tomatoes in this garden and a few other varieties I had in pots on the patio on the property I inherited from my mom. We also got a few lemon cucumbers. We used to live in a house with a small back yard in another county and we had a white peach, a white nectarine, an apricot tree, and a plum tree that bore heavily and were wonderful. Our avocado tree was just getting ready to bear it's first crop when we had to move. We expected when we moved to a large property with an orchard already planted we'd have all the fruit we wanted, but we weren't prepared for the four-legged thieves. First we found gophers and deer. Then the racoons discovered the buffet and thought it was for them. We still managed to get something for our efforts, though not as we had hoped. Last year the squirrels descended on us and we got nothing but the only crop of apricots our tree had ever borne. WE were very thankful that tree was spared. Maybe the squirrels didn't like them as much as the other goodies we had in the garden. It makes me feel good to see you enjoying your orchard and garden so much. I'd love to walk with you through that orchard and let you tell me about each tree. I'd love to see your garden. I hope it didn't get flooded out, since I know the weather has been mean to your part of the country this past few weeks. By now you should be harvesting or have already harvested. I'm very happy to have met you here in this discussion.