We’ve been very busy last few weeks.

Coffee borer beetles make our life as coffee farmer not easy anymore; even we are fighting those beetles hard and constant, it seems no hope to really get rid of them at all.

Last season, after coffee had been picked, pulped, soaked over night, on the drying deck beetles kept eating away the whole time. That made us thinking and decided to buy a coffee dryer, it will not only dry the coffee but also kill the beetles still live inside coffee bean. Sun dry coffee time is over, we ordered a small coffee dryer hope to get it before this coming season.

Then we need to find a place for the dryer; one decision lead to another project. Terry decided to take the rolling roof down, rebuild and raise it up, make a permanent roof and a place for coffee dryer.

When Terry decide to do something, he’ll just do it and move on. He worked very hard at time like this. It only took him 2 days to take apart the old roof and rebuild it, I only can gave very very little help. Only a few times, he needed me to hold a lumber straight with level, so he could nail it down. I couldn’t hand him a piece of metal sheet of roof, it’s too heavy; I helped him to move these metal sheet around though. I washed all of the clear plastic sheet, took nails out from old lumber to prevent any bad accident.

During the whole working time, only few drizzling times; lucky we got the roof back up over our heads before rain pouring down, since it’s raining season.

In Sonny’s card to Terry for “Father’s Day”, he even wrote ” You are my hero because you built the roof in two days”.

Here is another conversation I had with Sonny on ” Father’s Day”.

We didn’t prepare any gift for dad, he suggested:” We can buy a present for dad and me”.

I asked :” It’s Father’s Day, not a young boy’s day. Why should you get a present ?”

Guess what he said, he said :” I’m a boy, when I grow up, I will be a dad too; so I should get a present for Father’s Day too.”

I’ll never guess this answer myself, said :” Well, wait until you are a dad, then you can expect getting a present on Father’s Day. ”

I found this old photo, green roof was the rolling one, blue lumber was the rolling rail. It’s a nice photo, you can tell, it was a beautiful sunny day.

Terry was wearing red shirt on the roof, screwed down the roof. Sonny was saluting to me, pretend to be a soldier. Mimi, our cat walked into the scene just to be a part of the picture. All three of them made this photo unique, my camera captured this special moment.

This is how it look like right now. We like to have our meals at the front part of the deck, nice view up there. Another good part of it is, Terry made two laundry lines on back section. I love it, a scene with clothes drying on laundry line is wonderful and homey. A scene tells story of alive household without a single person in it.

When we were working on this project, we hired Tom who is live in neighborhood, sprayed BotaniGardES for us.

Last week, we threw another round of fertilizer, ran out of fertilizer, Terry just finished last four bags yesterday.