Ron, think we could get a relay system up to get Jim some good TEXAS NAVEL ORANGES this week. I'll volunteer for a mid relay. Of course all the relayers will have to sample to insure quality control - no seeds and sweet.
You are gonna laugh at me, but I was thinking of a road trip to the valley, but I noticed they were selling oranges and grapefruit from the Valley on the side of the road last week when I went down to see my daughter in Hurst. Suddenly, the fruit are everywhere except in the box I ordered from Pittman & Davis.
I appreciate your offer, Don, but that's really not necessary. I'm just miffed because I thought getting them from the grower would give me the best fruit. I picked a company and picked wrong. That's it in a nutshell.
Ron: I saw Bell's Farms and even considered them. I'll try to order from them next year. I think Pittman & Davis is gonna send me a replacement half-bushel of California Navels. By the time I get those eaten and these Valencias and Tangelos plus the two bushels I got from Pearson Ranch in California, I'm gonna be as 'juiced' as Lance Armstrong.:laughing: I will probably need to back off awhile so I don't burn out on citrus.
Edit: I just went to
Bell's Farms and clicked on 'Oranges' to find that they don't sell only oranges online. All orders are grapefruit and they all are VERY expensive when you consider stores all have lots and lots of great grapefruit now. Bell's doesn't even say their oranges are Navel Oranges. Maybe this was a bad year for navels. I just wish somebody at Pittman & Davis would have been honest with me. My angst would have been far less.
Kyle: When I was growing up, we only had the yellow grapefruit. We would take a thin paring knife and cut around the outside of each section after halving the grapefruit. That left the membrane in place and we could dip the sections out with a regular spoon. Of course, we still had to cover them with sugar to keep the sour-pucker-face to a minimum. Even so, I loved grapefruit and my brother hated it. He hated it so badly that before I was born, my mother asked him what he thought they should feed his new little baby brother. He said, "Fruit-grape!" It seems he wanted me to take care of eating the stuff he didn't like. Of course, his answer was a little dyslexic.
I do love the Ruby Red grapefruit and was eating them on a regular basis until all the warnings of how they interact with heart medication. I'd love for them to find out that was all an unneeded scare. I peel ruby reds just like oranges and eat them in big 'monster' sections with no sugar or anything else. A big grapefruit is a wonderful breakfast with a tall mug of coffee. Eating oranges for breakfast has helped me shed 65 lb in the last 5-1/2 months. I think I may just take a chance and by a bag of ruby reds. Even before the medicine interaction scare, I was eating them and never noticed anything out of the ordinary. Surely, I can eat a few if I don't get carried away.:thumbsup: