The bad sorted coffee beans.
Puppies playing in the trench.
The puppies are helping Rick with the trench. He is trying to bury the the conduit before it rains, still not sure if it will rain tonight or not. The thunder here seems to last forever and it can be a precursor to a rain storm. However, there are many micro-climates here and you never know if it is just going to rain in the city or actually make it to our yard too.
The orange tree in the front yard has a ton of oranges. I added some into the crockpot with tonight's dinner. We only have a few orange trees, which is enough for us and some extra to share with the orphanage down the street. We do not have enough to actually harvest and in the rainy season, they mold fast if you do not use them right away. I am also going to have to talk to the birds that keep putting holes in some of them to attract bugs. Which they later come back and eat the bugs, but I have no interest in them using all of the oranges as bird feeders.
I had to put a large picture here so that you could see the amount of "cherries" on the coffee tree. They are full all the way from the very top to the very bottom of the tree. I am so excited about this year's crop, the plants are doing amazing! The cherries will start turning red soon (a couple cherries have already started, but the majority of them will be ripe starting around the end of October through December.
Just so you know, as awesome as it is living here, there are still some bumps in the road. I am trying to keep this blog to not only let people back home know how we are doing, but to help other people that might be starting a similar journey.
The contract printer for the coffee labels is out of ink. We had been told to check back this week, but it appears he is still out. In the meantime, we are printing the labels off of our inkjet, which just smears on the shiny labels, so we then laminate the labels so they hold up. Crossing my fingers that the printer calls us soon telling us that his ink shipment came in! For those that have already ordered coffee....know that it took 30 minutes to make 8 labels! We even went to a few stores to buy a commercial printer, but so far have not found one, so it looks like we just wait for our guy to get his ink shipment.
We have not finished unpacking, but I think we have most of the important items found. Now that our new particle board furniture is unpacked and put together, we actually have places to put items. I think we are down to 7 totes left to sort through.