Do you see the header picture at the top of this newsletter?  I made it extra tall so that you could see the patches of blue sky above downtown Grass Valley.  If you live in northern California, you know why that's significant: we've been walloped by rain this winter.  The last few days felt like a giant pitcher of water was being dumped on our heads--and we were already swimming in a lake.  The storm damage includes flooding, mudslides, trees down, roads slipping, sinkholes--and the spillway at Lake Oroville is damaged.

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Needless to say, I was delighted to walk down the street to pick up my kids today.  I do hear that it's supposed to be a sunny weekend (sun?  what is that?), so we'll be sure to get outside.  At least to clean up the storm damage.  We are among the lucky ones who did not have significant problems: our thoughts are with those of you who do. 

This was a busy week around here, despite the rain.  In honor of the sky clearing, I'm going to declare this an especially short email, and give you a quick synopsis of our Celebes Kalossi (Sulawesi Toraja). 

This comes from Sapan, in the Tana Toraja region of South Sulawesi.  Coffees from Sapan are grown at 1600 meters plus, and the high elevation results in a beautiful dense bean.  This particular Toraja comes from cooperative of farmers, who are working together to process their coffee and improve their farms at the same time.

--Holly Fike