but also, I made another pie, and got the ham stock going - the stock will go into the roux that is the basis for the macaroni and cheese. They will include sautéed onions and cubed ham

yet another coffee roasting day

first snow of the year here was on Wednesday, yay us?

it's been a rough couple of weeks with Marcia's health, and we're not out of the woods yet. But we're getting by.

In other news, it's coffee roasting night:

Roasting more Guatemalan…

This is what the forecast looks like for the days following the day that you get your fishing boat out of storage…

on Monday, we had another 4 inches of snow for Spring... it didn't last long though it was mostly gone within 24 hours. Tonight, roasting coffee - I've got Kenyan from Sweet Maria's

Tonight, I'm roasting a pound of this Guatemalan from Sweet Maria's... that aside, this was kind of a shitty day.

Roasting the 2nd pound of this Guatemalan from Sweet Maria's in the Behmor roaster. The 1st pound is still resting upstairs, we should start brewing it in about four or five days. My resting time is generally about 12 to 14 days between roast and first brew.

Georgia, our rescue dog, goes into the water as soon as there's room between the shore and the ice.

as soon as there's room between the shore and the ice, our rescue dog, Georgia, is in the water

roasting a pound of Guatemalan beans tonight from sweet Maria's.

Sunrise the other morning... from my front yard.

this is my #coffee roasting set up: the roaster is in a vent hood that exhausts to outside, the green coffee beans are staged on top of the cart to the left-hand side. I generally roast once every seven or eight days.

roasting #coffee tonight, a Peruvian from Sweet Maria's in the Behmor roaster.

So, hello BlueSky peeps. Decided to take the plunge. For fun, here's a sunrise view from the home office to get things off on the right foot.