Ch ch ch ch cherry bounce!!!!

How's this for irony? We fancy ourselves quite knowledgable about homesteading. Well... There's this large tree in our front yard, that we've always been unable to identify. I tryed looking online, but couldn't place it. Once a year it produces tiny black berries that we've always assumed were inedible. Then the other day our friend the farm lady came over a we decided to see if she knew. After popping one in her mouth, "ya that's a wild cherry". Really!? They're only about a bit more than a centimeter long and sure enough they have a tiny pit. We were floored. After all this time it turns out we have a 50 foot fruit tree outside our bedroom window and didn't even realize it. And they're just now starting to ripen. I see lots of jam and cherry bounce in our future. Cherry bounce is of course liquor infused with wild cherry and was apparently quite popular with early Americans. Even Martha Washington had her own recipe. How's that for patriotic?