These might be the last ones we can afford for a while. Please keep the farm workers and farmers of California in your prayers. Three-quarters of the citrus crop lost, and nearly every crop affected. Shit.

I hope one of the trees in our yard decides to produce this year: the lemon tree is reliable, and the orange tree usually produces, but the tangerine tree is flakey in the best of times, and it's tangerines that we like the most.

Perhaps I can find someone who likes grapefruit, and work out an exchange.

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1 "tangerine tree is flakey in the best of times" Like a certain weblogger? I couldn't resist. It was a gigantic softball floating toward me, and I was Mark McGuire right after an injection.

Posted by: Sean Hackbarth at January 19, 2007 06:24 PM (QJ5cf)

2 The lady who runs the cafeteria at the school at which I work purchased ten times the usual amount of OJ this week because she suspects that prices are about to go up.

Posted by: John at January 19, 2007 07:26 PM (hJMG8)

3 Gee, Sean--if I meet anyone to whom that description applies, I'll be sure to pass that along! Yeah, John. I keep telling myself that if I overbuy on citrus, I'm part of the problem, because I'm creating an artificial shortage--a "run" on fruit in the stores. But I'm mired, oddly enough, in human nature. BTW, I'm not sure the price increases will extend to juice; a lot of the citrus that isn't pretty enough to be sold as whole fruit gets used for juice--that's why FL oranges are used more for this purpose than CA ones. But some of the CA crop was rescued, and will be diverted for use in OJ. Of course, I have no idea how much sort-of-damaged fruit was salvaged in the storm front, so I can't be sure. If they grabbed enough oranges as the frost was hitting, the fruit could, theoretically, flood the juice market and hurt FL farmers by creating an imbalance.

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Such a tragedy. And it happens way too often: the 1978 fires earned a few pages in the 1979Santa Monica High School yearbook. I watched the '93 blazes from my next-door neighbor's house back in West Los Angeles: a part of the Malibu Mafia from our Samohi days, he was able to tell me how close the fire had come to the homes of those we knew.

Does anyone know how Sandra Tsing Loh's father is? I don't think he was right on the beach. But I don't know the area well enough to be sure, and I no longer have her e-mail address. Someone get back to me on that.

I should have thought of this; it was so warm today, we had the windows open again. It seemed nice at the time. Fuck.

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