The citrus are running a couple months ahead of schedule this year. The orange tree is loaded - looks like it's going to be a bumper crop, but I expect they'll be ripe before Thanksgiving instead of after the new year.
The lemons are started turning from deep green to yellow. It looks like they'll be done before the
Quartzsite Gathering in February. We may not have free lemons to pass out at the Gathering this coming year.
The Mexican limes are already dropping on the ground. BJ picked up 15 of them yesterday.
This morning she was busy making a lime meringue pie. I'm trying hard to leave it alone until after dinner.
We've been getting the tail end of a couple hurricanes off of Baja California. The first one resulted in historic rainfall which wasn't a major deal at our house but had some neighborhoods with several feet of water in their houses. The second one was a non-event for the majority of the Phoenix area.
The biggest impact for us has been the increased rains in Utah where the Green River has seen a couple cycles of unusually high (for the season) levels which will mean we'll likely have mosquitoes during our trip.
I commented on the weird weather today on my blog. Rain in AZ, fires in CA and tornadoes yesterday in Michigan during their NFL game.
ReplyDeleteGreat minds?? It has been a strange year in lots of places. We're going to be on the river for a couple weeks. I'm hoping all the funny weather is over!
DeleteI am looking forward to some good Green River stories...but NOT about crazy weather or mosquitoes! Sending positive thoughts your way for a blue sky, bug free paddle! (Tell BJ she is killing me with that lime pie. What a perfect golden brown meringue!)
ReplyDeleteI suspect you'll get some good Green River stories (or at least pictures) but you're going to have to wait a couple weeks for us to get off the river. So far the long range forecast for the upper half of the trip is showing rain for a single 24 hour period but that's all subject to change. In any case it will be lots of fun!
DeleteBTW, I've been loving your Glacier pictures!
That is odd that the citrus is so far ahead of normal! Has it done that in the past? We have always enjoyed pink grapefruits at our AZ relatives' home in January...hope they are not all rotten by then!
ReplyDeleteExcited for you about the Green River paddle...must be a popular river...remember our old paddling buddies doing the Green many years ago.
We've never had the citrus this far ahead of normal. Don't know if it's just us or everyone.
DeleteThe Green is popular but not overrun. We'll likely have no one in sight 90+ percent of the time.