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The next step in expanding our enjoyment of coffee is to roast our own green beans. We invested in the Aillio Bullet R1 roaster and allocated a corner of the laundry room for our roastery. Roasting coffee produces some smoke so this necessitated installing a hood and ducting with a remote exhaust blower. It’s compact…
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Learn about Coffee Here An excellent introduction from the web forum “Roast Society”, best enjoyed with a cup of your favorite coffee. Learn more Here You can go a little deeper if your interest has been stimulated by going on the “Coffee Review” website (link above). Now if you are really getting interested you can…
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We have discovered REAL COFFEE and hope to share our experiences with other coffee lovers in the section of our website. By “real coffee” we mean coffee made from freshly roasted beans, sourced from specific locations, and either a single-sourced or blend from curated sources brewed properly. These coffees can be consumed as an espresso,…
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Our trip to Israel started over a year before during lunch with Marilyn Faulkner, when she asked where are you guys going next. The answer was “the Holy Land” and she said “I would love to do that” so we started planning. Tony Huffman organized our trip, our fifth fabulous experience planned by his organization.…
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Mother Nature forced a change in the itinerary with snow on our route to Galilee. Instead, we drove north up the coast and then turned inland to Galilee. Our first stop was at Caesarea, which is the ruin of a city built by Herod the Great, during the 22 to 9 BCE period. The ruins…
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Our hotel balcony overlooked the Sea of Galilee (actually a lake) and beyond to the Golan Heights. The lake is approximately 13 miles long and 8 miles wide and is the second-lowest lake on earth, 686 feet below sea level. It is fed by the Jordan River from the south as well as underground springs.…
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Because it’s the Sabbat, (Sabbath) we rearranged our schedule and visited the National Art and History Museum and got a taste of both. We sampled Israeli art, which reflects its tumultuous history. We viewed artifacts from that history, including synagogues from around the world and significant ruins marking periods including the Biblical period. We then…
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Our last leg of our trip took us out of Jerusalem into desert country. We saw Bedouin camps by the highway and as we headed south the terrain gets more rugged. We arrived at the Jordan River at the spot, where according to the Bible, John the Baptist baptized Jesus. We had visited the same…
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TheThe family converged on Hilton Head Island for Christmas on Thursday, December 23. After getting settled in it was time for some fun with the grand Children. The activity of choice was the Go Kart Racing in Bluffton at the K1 Racing Center. The racers checked in including Mike and Gary for three races, the…
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