High tech cherry-pitter

Yesterday I was wondering what my friend Sue used to pit the homegrown cherries for her yummy cherry crisp, and here's the gadget. Still can't figure out how it works, never was much good at mechanical doodads.

Tomorrow's my birthday. But what I'm really looking forward to is Saturday, the final day of Reading Deprivation Week.

Ah, books! No calories, no fat, no electricity required (at least in the daytime), no admission fee, no place I have to go to enjoy them. Such a variety, I could never run out of books, even here in Mexico where there's no Barnes & Noble, but the books I come across here are usually free. If nothing else, this week has reminded me how much I love books.