Crawl, Crawl … now Sprint

This is my first trip to the internet in almost a month, and I assure you not by choice.

My last post laid out a plan of action for the coffee project – once assurances of coffee purchase and materials for the washing station came from project partner Schluter Coffee, we’d start buying and processing coffee in early November. It looked great on paper, and I was ready to go. Unfortunately things rarely go as planned.

I’ll get into details very soon, but for now I’ll just say that there was a great deal of uncertainty from the end of October through the first two weeks of November concerning whether or not the materials and purchasing were going to happen. That meant that I had to move very cautiously for those three weeks and maintain balance on an exceedingly thin tightrope.

In the end it all worked out. The station is up and running. We’re buying cherries everyday and processing. It’s exhausting. I’m working pretty much 7 days a week and 9 – 10 hour days are the norm, but it feels great to be doing it. The harvest (and the heavy workload) will go on until about a week before Christmas - about another three weeks.

I’ll have a more detailed description of what’s go on in the next few days and I’ll finally be posting pictures. So check back soon.