This site is created by Mark for our family.
About
We live on the west coast, have three grown children, one grandchild, and three cats.
Mark retired from the computer industry in 2020. His current passions are coffee (roasting, brewing, tasting) and videography/photography. He is a Ham Radio operator (ag6cl), and enjoys creating web sites.
Coffee Roasting
Besides green coffee beans from Hawaii, Mark has roasted beans from the following countries. Country count to date is 32.
Africa
- Ethiopia
- Yemen
- Burundi
- Cameroon
- Congo
- Kenya
- Malawi
- Papua New Guinea
- Rwanda
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
Asia
- India
- Indonesia (Bali, Java, Sulawesi, Sumatra)
- Philippines
- Thailand
- Vietnam
South America
- Bolivia
- Brazil
- Columbia
- Costa Rica
- Dominican Republic
- Ecuador
- El Salvador
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Jamaica
- Mexico
- Nicaragua
- Panama
- Peru
Blog
Storing Green Coffee Beans in the Freezer?
I roast my own coffee and about a year ago I read an article about freezing green coffee beans to keep them fresher than they would be if just stored normally in a cool clean place. I have now done the experiment and first results are promising. Beans stored in a sealed vacuum pack bag …
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Visiting Crows 05/26/22
I came back from a nice hike of Skyline to new excitement. A crow was “cornered” by one of our cats (Rusty). I shooed Rusty away to the other side of the yard and the crow followed! The crow seemed t be edging closer and closer to Rusty until I yelled at Rusty and he …
Sanborn Skyline Trail 5/26/22
https://www.alltrails.com/explore/map/sanborn-skyline-fb4c486?u=i About 7 mile hike on a trail that is close to Skyline road. (Trail map mistakenly shows hike on road but really on Skyline trail shown next to it). We hiked out to Indian Rock and back in nicely cool weather with wind rustling through the tree branches high above us. The trail is …