I want some coffee!

  In case it's too obscure, I'm whining about the rising price of green coffee. Well... coffee and just about everything else a person needs to survive! When I started roasting coffee in December 2003 a pound of green coffee in small lots was about $3 - $8 per pound depending on how 'special' (or not!) it was. Years later in I think 2022 I tried a 50# bag of green coffee from a merchant in Mississippi (still a customer) which was less than $5.66/lb in 50# lots. Prices have crept up over the 3 intervening years and now that variety was $9.02/lb in 50# lots when I last purchased it in Mar 2025. That's close to double for the really nice green coffee I buy from Chiapas, Mexico via the Coffee Bean Corral's Rancher discount program. Now we can look forward to even larger price increases for coffee as goods from our trade partners increase as a result of tariffs added to the cost of what they supply. Import duties are supposed to cause us to 'buy American'. Bu...

Winter tried again to take over the weather but must have been sorely disappointed. Got down to freezing for a few nites but the lowest day-time high is 59°F this week.  So we're getting closer to whining about how ^^%%$$##@ hot it is. No pleasing some folks! 😇 Sunrise is getting too early for me to get any pre-dawn shots (what can I say? I'm old and need all the beauty sleep I can get!). But I did manage a few daylight shots of interest... Looking pretty much due West from the park. Starting to see a little activity but no real rain yet. Looking Northeast from the RV storage yard in the park toward Mae West* Peaks (yeah, really!). Looking across San Pedro Valley to the East from the park- those are the Dragoon Mtns. including Mt Glenn at 7520+ feet.   Mt. Glenn is in the Dragoon Mtns of the San Pedro Valley in Southeast Arizona... about 75 mi East of Tucson Not much going on as snowbirds start gathering up their belongings and head for other parts of the country. It'll be...