Coffee plantation, deployed...

I finally got around to germinating the 10 dwarf coffee tree seeds that I impulsively bought on the internets last year for $5 from an Australian Horticultural website. If I manage to get one or two to live and then bonsai them, they should be producing their first crop of coffee cherries sometime around the year 2015.

http://www.sweetmarias.com/growingcoffeeathome.php

Hopefully by my last year of residency I will be able to wake up at least once to a cup of single estate/apartment uber-local coffee.

spring cleaning

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFlAV5Y94nc

Progress

-Chicken legs
brined in red wine, black peppercorns, lavender flowers, dark cocoa powder
smoked over oak chunks

-successful test of "Brinkmann Fumarium"

-converted my igloo cooler into a Mash Tun, one step closer to all grain brewing

-herb garden alive and well
Basil- Tha, Genovese, and Cinnamon
Thyme vulgaris
Chives

- learned how to make soap out of bacon grease

ôsəm day

woke up today to:

"clement weather, no traffic, no obligations"

Which I remember reading somewhere is Beck (musician) 's elegant definition of heaven.

Here was my lazy-yet-productive Sunday in bullet points:

gas and food shopping for the week- in shorts-

home, coffee, build and fill a book shelf

set up maple syrup, sage, juniper berry brine for CKN and Pork

soak mesquite chips

smoke 4 chicken breasts and 2 pork tenderloins from 4:30-7:00

devour food, beer with friends

work, plan, launder, shower, fold, clean, hydrate, scheme.

gardening, guitar...