Month: September 2024

Bickens, Beans, and Beaches

Doc and I went on tours of several cacao farms, and it was a huge blast. I like eating and seeing where food comes from. I also got to go swimming and hold a bicken.

Checking out the cacao trees
Cacao pods

There were also bickens everywhere

Do not feed feral bickens sign

I got to hold a pet bicken (this one was not feral)

Me holding a sweet pet bicken
I am so stoked to hold a bicken

And I got to mix some of the fermenting beans

bean mixing
a vacation of bickens, beans, and beaches
the most important part of a vacation is having little outfits

They fed us so much chocolate and I got to taste so much cacao fruit. The different genetics tasted so different, even from the same farm. There are so many variables going on that even the same varietal from the same trees on the same farm will taste different from batch to batch.

I also like to eat bickens but I did not eat the pet bicken.

There’s an elf emoji???

As a self-professed enjoyer of elves, I was surprised to learn only recently that there’s an elf emoji!

https://emojipedia.org/elf#designs

I love them very much. Except for Apple’s elf emoji. It just looks like some guy. I think Facebook’s elf is the best, as it really captures the strange ethereal and fae quality in a way that others don’t.