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3 January 2016

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I've given you our red, green, and black coffee beans on coffee trees. The beans eventually fall off and decompose. Not long ago, we had a Kona coffee farming family at the house and the suggestion that we not waste the beans was gracefully made. Message received! So we're going to start picking, drying, and home-roasting our own coffee. With only two trees it's going to take a while to get enough for a pot of coffee, but it's going to happen.

 

Here are pulped beans in an aluminum tray ready to dry. Actually they are already partly dry, or they'd be glistening.

 

I don't think I've ever pumped the "Highlights" control up to 100%, but I did so here. It didn't change the way the beans looked, but it pumped up the light on the tray's ridges.