Fun in the shop

[Chuck H]

I enjoy pink grapefruit, but they interact with my medicine, so...

Yeah, grapefruit is funny that way. I love grapefruit juice. Not that syrupy "grapefruit juice cocktail". Actual 100% WHITE grapefruit juice. Never have it with your morning coffee. Unless you're a crack head. Then you might enjoy it.

[olddawg]

In my yard in Carlsbad I have a Satsuma Plum, an Apricot, a Lime, a Mandarine Orange, and 2 Avocado trees. I put them in 5 years ago. The only pain is that you have to deal with the rats that come up from the costal canyon that goes all the way to Ponto Beach. My parents were both Okies so I grew up with fruit trees even 4 blocks from the beach. It's all going away now with development and water restrictions.

[Chuck H]

It's all going away now with development and water restrictions.

On things lost to development...

When I was a boy my friends and I would hike in the Santa Cruz mountains. In the foothills near the city of Los Gatos there was a canyon that was very hard access. One day my friends and I went to the army surplus and bought machetes, scaled the hillside and chopped our way in. We found an old, dry creekbed ran through the center and every 150 feet or so there was a six foot, dome shaped shelter made from woven branches of brittle, historic age. Inside these were crude tools made from wood and stones as well as bits of broken pottery. Even at 13yo it wasn't hard to determine that these were important native American discoveries. But being 13yo we didn't give it much thought after that day. About five years later a development firm built a road to the front of that canyon and started bulldozing their way in. I and one of the others that had hiked in there went to the city and told them of out discoveries. We were told that the development crew was very respectable and that there were laws in place enforcing disclosure of any such discoveries they might make. Of course nothing was ever reported and there is a paved road now where the creek bed was and expensive houses along the adjacent hillsides. I can imagine one of the dozer operators telling his superior "Hey, look what I found". and getting the response "Plow that shit under before anyone else sees it!"

[dugdiamond]

[QUOTE=Chuck H;392995]. We were told that the development crew was very respectable and that there were laws in place enforcing disclosure of any such discoveries they might make. Of course nothing was ever reported and there is a paved road now where the creek bed was and expensive houses along the adjacent hillsides. I can imagine one of the dozer operators telling his superior "Hey, look what I found". and getting the response "Plow that shit under before anyone else sees it"

Ya got that absolutely right,,, It happens all the time. Ask any operating engineer.
Corona California was right in the center of the Riverside County Citrus Belt established in the late 1800's (True California Gold!)
During the urban encroachment of the 1980's , developers put an end to the Citrus industry here, along with that familiar smell of Orange blossoms in the summer evenings....