In January, I recognize the blessing of living in Southern California each time I step into my backyard and see a navel orange tree laden with fruit. As winter sets in, imbibing a daily dose of juicy vitamin C packed within a seedless navel orange, is a wonderfully purifying and revitalizing January ritual, as is smelling fragrant roses from bushes that are still in bloom. My orange tree was planted 20 years ago and is 10 feet tall. It is a semi-dwarf, meaning that a bud from a navel orange tree was grafted onto a rootstock of a species known as hardy orange (Poncirus trifoliata). It’s a rootstock that controls the growth and ultimate size of the adult tree. A...
It’s been a crazy busy time the last couple of month’s. Over the past few weeks we’ve had family in town to celebrate birthdays and the holidays. It’s the time of year when I can’t wait to be in my warm kitchen with the music cranked loud while baking pastries and pies to my hearts content! Joe’s family came in December to celebrate their Mom’s 90th birthday which happens to be on Christmas Day. Joe and Josh also celebrated birthdays just a few days later. Josh and Cameron didn’t make it here for Christmas as they are always busy with work over the holidays, but they took time off in January to come home and spend a few days. It’s...
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1. Think twice before surrounding your tree with an irrigator bag. You have probably seen green plastic irrigator bags at the base of the trunks of newly planted trees, whether along streets, in parks, or occasionally in residential yards. The idea is that you fill the zip-up irrigator bag with water which slowly drains down to the roots through small holes in the bag so that watering frequency can be reduced. The problem is that sometimes the holes clog and the water sits around the bark of the tree causing disease and rotting the trunk. Even when the water does drain through, the bark may remain moist, an invitation to fungus and insect infestation. Occasionally, you will see a bag...
I made you this quick video because I was walking around the Sprouts Farmers Market like : lol – Wow! I was going from my acupuncture appointment to my neurology appointment and had an hour in between, so I thought I would check it out while I was in the city and get in a little “easy walking.” I’ve only been able to walk again since late September (after physical therapy), but not very far yet, so I grabbed a shopping cart for support and just walked around the store for a bit. 🙂 I chose Sprouts because I kept seeing it on the Store Locator for some of my favorite keto products, and it did NOT disappoint! Check out...
