First visitor

Tomorrow is going to be an exciting day.

Though we've gotten our work hours in for the week we'll be working a couple/few hours tomorrow. Why have we decided to work rather than sleep in, have a lazy breakfast and some time at our fave coffee shop? Because it's time for a harvest! The coffee trees on the farm need to be relieved of their ripe cherry and we get to do the job. I'd been worried that we had missed the harvest so I'm psyched.

After the picking, we'll clean up and head off to the airport to pick up a friend of ours who is visiting for a week. This is the first time we've ever had a visitor while out here! It's about time!

Digression: the rooster on the farm, like all good roosters, crows whenever the mood strikes and not as the sun is coming up like in the movies. This rooster sounds demented. It's 11pm here now and he's going off. No cock-a-doodle-doo like all the rest, his is more of a strangled sounding "ROOooooOOOOaaa". The noise emitted sounds more like a screaming person than a crowing rooster. It's a good thing he introduced us to his call during the day. Otherwise his 4am racket would have scared the bejeesus out of us. Now the roosters across the mountain are responding to his call, or perhaps they are mocking him?

Ah yes, tomorrow. Fun times. We're also picking up the 5 gallons of beer I won in the silent raffle at the Kona Coffee Farmer's Association dinner a couple weeks ago. So much fun in one day! Perhaps I should go to sleep to prepare for the early morning and long day....