The week before Terry was sick, he was down for the whole week. Without normal Terry around, I felt a little low too even though I tried to keep myself busy. Sonny missed dad being his morning chauffeur, wished dad getting better soon. Now we are so happy daddy came out from his sickness; silly, funny and playful normal dad is back to our life.

In 2010, we had a bad drought, coffee borer affected some farms badly, but our farm was doing fine and hardly noticed any coffee borers. This year, we have less than half crop compared with our normal year, coffee borer is not easy to deal with. We will try our best to keep borer’s number down, hope next year will be better.

This week we have some coffee pickers picking the last round coffee, I asked them to pick everything off from the tree, black, green, red cherry; then I put the coffee into black garbage bags on the drying deck and tie it up. Hope it will kill the bugs living inside, if not, we can burn them. In this way, at least we destroy some food and places in which the bugs are living .

From the picture, you can tell there are some ripe cherry too. I was hoping to process this round ripe cherry, then couldn’t find pickers since there were not much ripe cherry to pick. That’s how we end up with these mixed coffee. I even thought to pick the ripe ones out by myself, Terry stopped me. He said that it take as much time to separate them as to pick them from the tree, since three guys are out in the field picking, it will take me longer time than I expect to finish the job.

Hanging a trap for the bugs on the tree is another solution too, we will get more traps after pruning.

With the coffee borer problem, farming the land seems harder than before. But we love the life the land provide to us, we don’t have other option, except facing the problem. I’m pretty optimistic about it, we will make it if we try our best.

Yesterday Sonny had his piano lesson, he got a Chinese fortune cookie as a prize from his teacher. He ate the cookie and handed to me the piece of paper, I asked him to read it. It says ” You love life very much “. I amazed the words matching with my Big little boy so much. AND we bought a toy riffle with one dollar at a garage sale on our way to home, he was super happy.

My late new year wishes

To friends and family and people who we haven’t met

Happy

Healthy

Love and be loved

Enjoy the life you are living in, (if not, be able to find it)

In the year of dragon.