NorCal Storms
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dogon dory
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Start your day right, Bill.
OBTW, you might thoroughly check that gift coffee you found under the tree.... :smileo
Dec. 31, 2005, 6:35PM
Rare Indonesian coffee bean picked from civet droppings
Reuters News Service
NEW YORK - Would you pay $175 for a pound of coffee beans that had passed through the backside of a furry mammal in Indonesia?
Some coffee lovers wanting to treat themselves to something special are lapping it up.
Kopi Luwak beans from Indonesia are rare and expensive, with a unique taste and aroma enhanced by the digestive system of palm civets, nocturnal tree-climbing creatures about the size of a large house cat.
"People like coffee. And when they want to treat themselves, they order the Kopi Luwak," said Isaac Jones, director of sales for Tastes of The World, an online supplier of gourmet coffee, tea and cocoa.
Despite being carnivorous, civets eat ripe coffee cherries for treats. The coffee beans, which are found inside of the cherries, remain intact after passing through the animal.
Civet droppings are found on the forest floor near coffee plantations. Once carefully cleaned and roasted, the beans are sold to specialty buyers.
Jones said sales for Kopi Luwak rose three-fold before the Christmas holiday compared to the first half of the year. The company started selling the rare coffee in February.
So far, most of the orders have been from California.
OBTW, you might thoroughly check that gift coffee you found under the tree.... :smileo
Dec. 31, 2005, 6:35PM
Rare Indonesian coffee bean picked from civet droppings
Reuters News Service
NEW YORK - Would you pay $175 for a pound of coffee beans that had passed through the backside of a furry mammal in Indonesia?
Some coffee lovers wanting to treat themselves to something special are lapping it up.
Kopi Luwak beans from Indonesia are rare and expensive, with a unique taste and aroma enhanced by the digestive system of palm civets, nocturnal tree-climbing creatures about the size of a large house cat.
"People like coffee. And when they want to treat themselves, they order the Kopi Luwak," said Isaac Jones, director of sales for Tastes of The World, an online supplier of gourmet coffee, tea and cocoa.
Despite being carnivorous, civets eat ripe coffee cherries for treats. The coffee beans, which are found inside of the cherries, remain intact after passing through the animal.
Civet droppings are found on the forest floor near coffee plantations. Once carefully cleaned and roasted, the beans are sold to specialty buyers.
Jones said sales for Kopi Luwak rose three-fold before the Christmas holiday compared to the first half of the year. The company started selling the rare coffee in February.
So far, most of the orders have been from California.
dogon dory
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Bill,
That is some potent brew you have! When I went out to check my boat Saturday morning I could swear I could smell coffee on the wind, and your a good 20 miles away. :shock:
That was some storm. I wanted to try out the new gas tanks but the Delta was closed to boating because of the extreme high tide and bad conditions.
Steve
That is some potent brew you have! When I went out to check my boat Saturday morning I could swear I could smell coffee on the wind, and your a good 20 miles away. :shock:
That was some storm. I wanted to try out the new gas tanks but the Delta was closed to boating because of the extreme high tide and bad conditions.
Steve
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Bill, have been watching the px on TV, are you guys out of the danger area? Looks really bad. Some levee breaks looked just like New Orleans...
Charlie
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Ya- We had a good part of the storm down here also. There has been some movement causing a landslide warning at La Conchita. :shock: The rain has stopped and we are looking to have several days of SoCal sunshine. We had three boats wash up on the beach, after breaking away from the moorings this past weekend.
Captains Choice":kw97cj13 said:
We got through it with minimal damage. Our back yard flooded, leaving a bunch of mud. On the worst day, one of our drains got blocked, resulting in some water seepage into the garage through the side door...got a couple boxes wet, but nothing got high enough to threaten the house. Were the boat down here, it would have stayed on the trailer...
Downtown Martinez is a few miles away, and they got hit pretty hard, but that seems to happen every 2-3 years. I've heard of a couple homes in the immediate area that have mudslide concerns, but no homes have been lost that I'm aware of. Still...folks that buy/build hillside homes in this area are spinning the roulette wheel. Anyone who's lived here a while has seen what this heavy clay does every time we get a good downpour.
Here in Redding, we've had almost 15 inches of rain since Christmas, a exceptionally heavy amount for us. All the ground is saturated, the streams and rivers are near flood stage, and there's been a little moderate flooding in some low lying areas, but nothing like the media would like to exaggerate.
Shast Lake is filling so fast they're dumping all the water they can without causing downstream flooding into the Sacramento River. Should perk up the sturgeon fishing in the Delta, though.
For another benefit, the treak down the steps to the boat at the marina at Bridge Bay gets shorter each day. I like going up and down the 35 step trip a lot more than the one with 90-120! Feel like suggesting they employ a resident cardiologist and an Emergency Clinic about half way down/up in the Summer months! :love :smileo
Shast Lake is filling so fast they're dumping all the water they can without causing downstream flooding into the Sacramento River. Should perk up the sturgeon fishing in the Delta, though.
For another benefit, the treak down the steps to the boat at the marina at Bridge Bay gets shorter each day. I like going up and down the 35 step trip a lot more than the one with 90-120! Feel like suggesting they employ a resident cardiologist and an Emergency Clinic about half way down/up in the Summer months! :love :smileo