Maybe I’m frugal (wife and kids calls me cheap), but I just can’t see wasting something, food especially. I have repurposed many things over the years and will continue. I just love to put something to use if I can (weather it’s pretty or not). In this time of throw it away and buy a new one. It just drives me crazy to see the things that we are filling our landfill with. Living in Louisiana, has allowed me to grow different types of tropical fruit over the years. I have 6 citrus trees and an apple tree growing on my property so far (Navel Oranges, Horton Oranges, Meyer Lemons, Tangerines, Kumquats, Satsuma’s) and have plans for more. Every year I plant a 20 x 40 garden that I usually try to help supplement my family’s diet with fresh vegetables when I can. It was brought up in an earlier post, about wasting food. Last year my citrus trees made so many oranges that I couldn’t give them all away. So in my infinite wisdom, I figured I would juice them, easier said than done. At the time I didn’t too much about it and just started juicing them by hand, with one of them darn twisty juicers…..you talk about some work……it took me almost a week and a half, working on it part time, But I was able to put up 5 gallons of some of the best OJ I have ever had…. I was so much into it, that I can tell you it takes a 5 gallon bucket of oranges to make 1 gallon of juice…. Well this year, my wife and kids bought me a citrus press for Christmas (guess they liked fresh/Frozen OJ). So this year after giving away as much as I could, I still put up 5 gallons of juice again, but it only took me ¼ of the time with this press then recycled the peels for composting…..The older I get the more I value what my mom once told me. When I die, I don’t want to leave anything here, but a memory……