My husband teases me and laughs because, even after 5 decades beyond my years growing up in Georgia [before my folks moved us way west] my accent comes back whenever I talk at any length with another southerner (even on the phone discussing an order for something) and the effect lasts for a few hours, apparently, before fading away...the drawl, "I" becomes "Ah", etc. But other than local colloquialisms, any decent English speaker should be able to understand "Suthen"...!
OHHHH, who could resist that wonderful face?!?
I never developed a real Suthen accent because of all the influx of Northern fast talkers around me being in the FL melting pot.
That is so cool that you can grow a banana tree. I wonder if they could be grown in the house or a greenhouse. I suppose that's unrealistic for up here in Wisconsin, but we go through at least a large bunch a week between my hubs, my parrots, me, and the rest go to the chickens. We constantly fight fruit flies. I'm good at it now.
Although living in the midwest the vast majority of my life, I've been asked a time or two if I'm from somewhere else. I say just a couple of words such as "about" as "a boat," which comes from being born and raised in Virginia the first four years of my 63 years of life. Weird. The other one is I still say "eh" a lot. I worked many years in ND up near the Canadian border so every weekend I was surrounded with Canadians. I lost most of any accents I ever had, except those couple of things. Weird, eh?
As far as I know, sweet cherries are not self fruitful, meaning you need two trees at the minimum. Sour cherries are self fruitful, but bear better if there are two trees.
Door County, Wisconsin is famous for its cherries. Everyone up there has cherry trees so we bought one too. It's only two years old and it's alone, so supposedly we were told it could be. It would be the same so a sweeter variety. It might actually still have the tag on it so I'll check later when I meander out there.
