All is Good on the Satsuma Front

When my parents moved six years ago, they gave us their potted Satsuma orange tree. The first year, it produced a glorious crop of 40-50 little oranges. Then, because I’m such a horrible gardener, it was attacked by whiteflies and black sooty mold, and it took several years of regular treatments with garlic-pepper-seaweed tea, compost tea, horticultural oil, and insecticidal soap (and me spending hours with wet paper towels, gently scrubbing the soot off each individual leaf). The poor little tree was too sick to produce any oranges. Eventually, the whiteflies stopped coming back. Last spring it produced dozens of tiny little orange blossom buds like this, which turned into teeny tiny oranges, about 1 mm across… and all promptly fell off after about 2 weeks of growth. This spring we’ve got teeny tiny orange flower buds again. I’m keeping my fingers crossed for fruit!

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Starbucks wisdom

Normally I don’t buy Starbucks coffee (overpriced monopoly, anyone?) but today they were giving it away for free so I took advantage and got a “Light Note” decaf 16 ounce cup. Printed on my cup was the following: It’s difficult for people to get rid of junk. They get attached to things and let them define who they are. If there’s one thing I’ve learned in this business, it’s that you are what you can’t let go of.— Brian Scudamore, Founder and CEO of 1-800-GOT-JUNK So what am I? I am: Boxes and boxes of notes to friends from high school Old books Clothes I’m certain I’ll fit into again, 10 pounds from now Canvasses with bad paintings Drawers full of souvenirs, birthday cards, movie tickets, theatre playbills, and other random stuff Disappointment in people Self doubt What are you?

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