The coffee I've ordered, that is. Here's the list of coffees ordered from Sweet Maria's this evening: They'll be here in a week and a half, fingers and eyes crossed. I'm down to two pounds left downstairs, so this is cutting it pretty fine. Yikes! I should have ordered the day we got back from Maine, but I was tired from the drive. Oh, well.
Continue reading...Typical boring weekend day for "homeowner with yard in summer": Yardwork. We actually got a good chunk of rain yesterday - nearly an inch and three quarters, most of that within a one hour span shortly after four in the afternoon. So even though the lawns are pretty darned dead dormant (except around the flower and garden beds), I mowed everything, just in case there's a moisture-induced explosion of growth. That and burning some coffee beans pretty much filled my day. Yes, I said burning. I was reading, and didn't pay as close attention as I should have. The beans…
Continue reading...Hey! We just got 6/100" of rain! It's been bloody dry around here - the only green grass is near the flower and garden beds. Isn't that a nice-looking bowl of potatoes? I sliced up one of those, a zucchini, some garlic, and a pepper out of the garden, sautéed all of that in olive oil, and called it supper. Yum! I also have already roasted a pound of some Kenyan coffee beans this evening. The roaster lives in a vent hood I built that exhausts out the basement window. The exhaust is mobile; It doesn't stay in the window.
Continue reading...Yeah, there's crappy news from around the world, but I'll just keep trying to make lemonade. Or at least a really good cup of coffee. The bright spot in visiting CNN today was seeing a picture of the young Matthew Broderick, and thinking to myself, "SAVE FERRIS!" On the coffee front, there's Sweet Maria's to help me with that. Tonight I roasted a pound of Panama Las Flores de Boquete using my Behmor 1600 roaster, profile P4, D mod. I let it run the full 23 minute roast cycle, and it took the coffee about a minute past first crack,…
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