Coffee Process

Fact: A cup of medium roast and cup of dark roast have the same amount of caffiene.

Nice ripe coffe. See some leaf rust.

What is Growing

Easy-sticking succulent ground cover with a pretty little flower.

Ive learned a lot about plants here in Guatemala, a lot about propagation.  Luckily, it has to be one of the easiest places on the planet to garden and make new plants.  What is most amazing to me is that for many species, you can simply cut a piece of aomething and stick it in the ground and wait.  Just when start to feel like a real asshole because of the stick thats been sticking out of the ground in your garden for month doing nothing, surely dead, it pops, and a little pointy green tip comes out of it and soon you will have a leaf and now you have a new plant.  This has happened in the net two photos, and its happening all over the place around my house.  I put in as many as possible while we had good rain and in the future I can propagate or move these plants as I see fit.

Bouganvillea starting up.  This will climb up into the fence.  It has spikes and a brightly colored brack(?) around a small white flower.  Also some nice plastic fertilizer in there.

Jocotelcast 001

Apologies to anyone who has been looking for an update lately.

This time around, I'm making available a recording I made that will bring any listener up to speed with my goings on here in Guatemala.  I set forth with a couple topics listed in my mind and no notes and came away with a 37-minute unedited monologue.  It's ambitious, but I'm happy with it and you might like it.  If not, I apologize but I can do nothing else for you at this time, unless you visit.

I do not have fancy hosting but the talk is available from my google drive.  Click the link here to go to the shared file.  It may or may not let you listen straight away, but you can download the file with a button at the top of the page and listen where and when you please.

Jocotelcast 001

This goes out to my cousin Jeff, who encouraged it, the people who've been listening lately to other things, the people who have sent recorded messages back to me and most of all, the people are coming down to see me.  Enjoy.

Volcanic Morning: Volcan Fuego blowing smoke