The time goes so fast!

Coffee, Coffee and Even More Coffee
This has been our best harvest year since we have owned the farm. Just as we clear the drying house of dried parchment coffee and get it bagged, it is time to load the drying house with fresh soaking, wet coffee. It has been non-stop and a little hard to keep up with. I feel like we are always 1 day behind right now....

Road Work
People that are not used to driving on back roads or steep roads are starting to have a hard time getting up our hill. To do a "real" fix, we will need to restrict driving up the road, or at least control where they drive while we set some concrete. However, today we ....and yes that means Rick, Melvin, Simone and Hector....implemented a temporary fix. We will have a more permanent solution in place next month. The road is technically a public road, but there is no fix coming anytime soon unless we do it ourselves. We have already scheduled the work in February and are formulating our plan of action now...yay!

A Coffee Tour and a Surprise
One of the great things about our jobs here on the farm is getting to meet new people. This cute couple are now officially engaged....yay! It was a beautiful day!

Dirty Dogs
With the rain gone now, the dogs are outside all day getting filthy. Both dogs were so dirty that we had to take some time off to bathe them and cut out the mats of embedded seeds in Dante's ears. Dante was so not happy!

Wildlife
Rick was going around the farm knocking down the widow-makers (dead branches that could easily fall and hurt someone) and accidently disturbed the wasp nest. It turns out that most of the wasps were actually inside the nest at the time. They were not happy, but no one got stung! 

The frog spent the day watching us process coffee. I kept expecting him to move along, but he was pretty sure we could not see him and did not even mind when we accidently spilled water on him.

Mornings
I get to wake up to views like this each morning. It keeps us going and is a great start to our long days right now. :)