As the snow piles up and gets plowed away by snow tractors.
Its time in California for my favorite type of tractor, the blue Ford orchard tractor with the narrow front track and full skirts that cover the rear wheels.
Its almost peak harvest time for both fruits and the memories of hanging around at the citrus packing plant as a kid are precious. Driving around on fork lifts with the guys and climbing around RR cars as a six year old would get my parents a visit from CPS today. I survived just fine and learned early what it meant to work. Also learned my 1st Spanish curse words there too
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My tress are around 15 years old and are in their prime years.
I got boxes of free fruit out front.
My Naval Orange Tree is a descendant of the 1st California Naval Orange Tree of 1873, I bought it in Riverside CA from the U of Riverside AG dept.
Here's the story of the Naval Orange.
https://culinarylore.com/food-history:how-did-the-navel-orange-originate/#:~:text=The%20exact%20origin%20of%20the%20navel%2 0orange%20is,a%20laranja%20selecta%20orange%20tree %20sometime%20around%201820.