Messy and sweet faces

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We went to a little boy’s birthday party on last Saturday. Look at this picture, you can tell they had a great time.

We have a very easy day today. In the morning, Terry fixed the garden fence when I was transplanting some green onion. There is not much growing right now, too much rain in last couple of months, and killed my beautiful tomato plants. But cabbages are growing very fast, not only we enjoy them, our chicken do too.

See the black soil, that’s compose from last year’s cherry skin with two truck loads of mac nuts huskers.

 

 

 

 

One kind of our day

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A couple weeks ago, our friend Yasu came to visit us with some of his Japanese friends. As usual, Terry made some coffee and we talked stories. While we both got interested in the conversation with Yasu, Sonny guided the other guests around the farm. He told the guests how Dad and Mom run the pulping machine, where to dry the coffee. At the end, they bought few pounds coffee, and Sonny want the money to put in his saving box. We believed he really did a good farm tour job, so that’s what we did. He had such good time, he didn’t want them leave.

We just got an email from Yashu, Yamaken who was one of the guests posted this visit on his blog. I can’t read Japanese, but I do like those photos a lot. If anybody has interest, check it out.

http://www.yamaken.org/mt/kuidaore/archives/2011/10/97_2.html#more

 

Happy Da Kine coffee bean

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In Honaunau coffee cherry is start to change their color, from green to pink or yellow, then red. To me, red cherry is a happy color, and it also says “Coffee harvest season is here”.

Like any other kind of agriculture crop, harvest season means farmer’s life getting busy and have to work extra hard than other time, as ripping crop won’t wait in the field for ever. And only harvested crop can refer to be this year’s crop, crop in the field is still belong to mother nature.

Terry and I picked the first round of ripe cherry. First round coffee is not much fun to pick for coffee picker who is picking coffee for living at this season, but it’s a very important job. Only a little bit cherry are ripe, but when you pick the ripe one also pull some tight growing branches apart. It makes future round picking easier and save more cherries on the branches.

It took us 20 days to finish picking the whole farm, and we picked 1353 pounds cherry together. It’s not a lot, but we are very happy to get the job done.

Coffee harvest season.

Yes, we are ready.