{"id":1140,"date":"2011-10-05T13:02:43","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T18:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/?p=1140"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:24:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T15:24:07","slug":"projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tillthemoneyrunsout.com\/projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom and I are both, as it turns out, the type of people who would be able to fill a to-do list while being held in a 5×8 concrete jail cell. I can see it now:<\/p>\n

[ ] \u00a0Wake up<\/p>\n

[ ] Do 50 push-ups<\/p>\n

[ ] Make up a song about coffee<\/p>\n

[ ] Edit yesterday’s song “I like oatmeal”<\/p>\n

[ ] Count out square inches of cell<\/p>\n

[ ] Come up with 3 new and interesting hairstyles<\/p>\n

We just seem to find projects to do all of the time. I mean we are living in the jungles of Panama, and somehow still do not have enough hours in the day for all of our li’l self-assigned tasks and projects.<\/p>\n

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Deciding to quit our jobs in San Diego and follow our own pursuits has landed us the most unyielding, demanding taskmasters of bosses we have ever had – ourselves. After visiting the cacao farm\/processing plant of our (wonderful!!) neighbors Dave and Linda we got another one of our wild hairs.<\/p>\n

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Though there are no producing cacao trees on the property (YET; see below) Vicente, the landscaper, brought us a single cacao pod from his farm.<\/p>\n

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Well of course we weren’t just going to let it go to waste! And so we put our knowledge from Dave and Linda and from the class we took in Cusco (see post: from the beans to the bar) to good use and starting building a processing plant for our one cacao. We split it open, built a wooden box for fermentation, bashed open our pod, starting fermenting the majority of the seeds and planted three in different places on the property.<\/p>\n

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