Howard, John and myself took a walk along the drainage canal next to our property. It borders about ten acres of land that have not been touched by man. As we walked along, we spotted something very colorful way into the jungle. In we trudged, through the briers, vines and snakes. It was an orange tree, we couldn't reach any and the one we found on the ground was rotten, but as Stanley and Livingston said, (or was it MacArthur) I will come back.
I did and with an extendable Home Depot picker, I could reach some of the oranges.
Polly and I picked a half bushel. Getting in to the tree we also spotted another tree and getting over to that tree we spotted three more. A whole orchard of wild orange trees.
Figuring they were wild oranges which aren't very sweet, we took them home to squeeze to make orange ade (with a lot of added sugar). Polly insists on washing them first - hey, they were in a true natural state what would they have on them. Well, most of the skin blemishes came off, so I guess something was on them.
As we squeezed them, we tasted a few. They were delicious, a lot of seeds but they tasted great.
OK, so we've got a lot of oranges to pick, the only problem is the trees are taller than the picker can reach even when fully extended to 15 feet. So Paul Curry suggested that I take off the pipe extender from my limb cutter and add it to the fruit picker.
But that might not be big enough so you can extend it.
And if that isn't tall enough you can extend it to 30 feet.
Guess what we're bringing back for everyone.
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