Every time I go home, I am reminded about how UN-wasteful my parents are. My dad has blueberry bushes, apple trees, grape vines, pear trees, plum trees and apple/pear trees. He is VERY diligent in harvesting every last bit of fruit from each tree. Then my mom works day after day after day making grape juice, applesauce, jams, jellies, pies and desserts.
Well, when we moved to LA, our house came with four fruit trees in the backyard (one orange tree, one tangerine tree, one lemon tree, and a nectarine tree). We've made lemonade a few times last spring and summer, we loved the tangerines during winter time (the kids could easily peel them themselves), but we have yet to really take advantage of our other orange tree (they are kind of sour oranges) and I'm sure you don't want to hear about how all the nectarines ripened while we were in Canada last summer and when we got back there were dozens of them all rotten on the ground:(
Anyways, finally on Saturday the kids and I went out and had a ton of fun picking the oranges to make juice. The kids were very excited to climb the ladder! Too bad I couldn't find the juicer, so they are still sitting on my kitchen counter. Maybe one day I'll get it together enough to make my dad proud:) If I do, I'm sure I'll blog about it!!
