Life Transplanet

Schnoodle with some of the various tropical plants in our house -coffee tree is furthest left

We have had a small coffee plant for the last few years.  In the summer we put it in the humid greenhouse and it grows well.  Then in the winter we bring it inside, where it lives..but doesn’t exactly thrive.   Just this year it started to bloom.

Cassie played the role of the honey bee and pollinated some of the blossoms by hand.  We hadn’t thought much of it until just the other day when we saw….Coffee beans!

Colorado Coffee Beans

We will continue to let them grow and I doubt we’d have enough even for a single cup of coffee, but it’s still fun and having tropical plants around us invokes thoughts of Puerto Rico.  Of course the coffee plants in PR are a hundred times more fragrant and bigger!  Perhaps if we have enough beans/seeds we will try to grow another tree or two here in CO.  When we get to PR we might plant a whole acre of them!

This is a coffee bush in Puerto Rico (makes our Colorado coffee beans look silly)

We got in pretty lte last night but we are in PR! More soon.

Well we are here.  Its kind of nice actually,  I didn’t think I’d like it too much but this time I like it when I am wrong.  The weather is good and I think the high is supposed to be in the 80s.  Not the 110 I was afraid of.

Traveling is always interesting.  The plane was over an hour late due to bad weather in OK.  Also everyone in downtown phoenix charges for interenet access.  The hotel wants $13/day.  That is a bit high seeing how I pay 40 for a month.  I couldn’t get on at Starbucks because they require you to have some kind of Starbucks card.  I guess I didn’t think of internet access as a commodity.   I finally found a free hotspot at the hotel but you only have 45minutes a day to use it.  Lame.

Here is a pic from our room:

Confusion never stops
Closing walls and ticking clocks

oh and a random song
blackalicious-make-you-feel-that-way

I have very random posts sometimes.  It drives Cassie nuts

Not feeling good.  Since I’ve been back in Colorado I’ve been sick!  Took the day off from work.