Coffee

[digitS']

Bosc pear and blue berry waffles — yes, I had 2 . Up later today but suspect that I will feel the benefit through the day from not being up so dang early. Tasks (& completion) yesterday must have set me up for staying longer on the horizontal.

@Shades-of-Oregon , for a few months, I lived in the middle of a Bartlett pear orchard in the Rogue River Valley of your state. Rental houses built where a commercial orchard had been reduced in size. A neighbor had one of the original trees in their yard and the orchard continued both north and south. Important industry in that valley.

Thinking of @Zeedman 's comment about party lines on the "senior" thread. On the farm (with another pear orchard on the other side of the west fence ) we had a Czech family down the road and one of the phone parties. Kid at home ... grown daughters talking in that language. I'd put the phone down while doing other things just so I could hear that interesting conversation. Whoa – one of them yelled at me to "hang up!" Shucks. I didn't even know what they saying. I think that they may have been more comfortable speaking English and here was that neighbor brat eavesdropping on them .

One ring for us. Two rings, somebody else. Be in another part of the house, "was that 2 rings?" Some nighttime goin's-ons at the neighbor's house, Mom would put a pillow on top of the phone.

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[digitS']

Good thing I was up early . Electric kettle gave out. Pulled the new kettle out of the box, cleaned the interior, exterior – got it going. Dumped first water, refilled.

Yes, we were prepared. I bought the new kettle about 3 days after the old one began acting up. And, right after Christmas required a 3 store visit since the shelves were nearly empty. Had time to order but couldn't be sure and desperate to cover bases ...

Ya know, for a guy who put up with a wood kitchen stove for a few years in a log cabin ... Yeah, but I always had the kindling at hand! Shoveled path through the snow to the woodshed, the very first thing I built on the property ...

I remember visiting my mom's cousin in Vancouver when I was a teenager. She had an electric kettle. I thought it sooo appropriate – for a tea drinker. We'll, now I is.

More ready and so is the herbal .

 

[flowerbug]

i had leftover spaghetti and meatball (1 lonely soul) for breakfast and thought it would be nice for a change to have some real (aka sort of real because it was instant) coffee, i can't manage it black these days so added some brown sugar and some vanilla because it was a dessert coffee i wanted.

1/4 teaspoon of instant coffee and i've been zooming for the past few hours. which was useful because i did get a few things done that i left for the morning from yesterday. now back to it because i have a pile to go... quick skim of new messages first. must be distracted for a few more moments between tasks...

 

[ducks4you]

Sorry@flowerbug ,
Drinking instant coffee is like eating Soylent Green to me!

 

[flowerbug]

Sorry@flowerbug ,
Drinking instant coffee is like eating Soylent Green to me!

considering i used to drink coffee turkish style, enjoyed Kona and kept my favorite blend in the freezer (after grinding it to fine powder) instant coffee is quite a difference. yet these days expensive coffee is wasted on me. i can have maybe 3 beans worth...

 

[Zeedman]

Sorry@flowerbug ,
Drinking instant coffee is like eating Soylent Green to me!

That is my opinion too, on all of the national instant coffee brands. But I really like some of the instant coffees carried by the local Oriental grocery; instant coffee in eastern Asia seems to have been perfected into an art form. I'm really hooked on these, been drinking them for years now.

 

[Gardening with Rabbits]

My cat woke me up at 6 and I fed him and I put more wood in the stove and I went back to bed. I slept a little bit and got up and fed the rabbit. It was 24 degrees outside and there was some ice in her water. There was ice in the water yesterday too and I took out some of the old bedding and gave her new and put the old in a new compost bin.

I have been looking at the Baker Creek seed catalog and looking at other places on line. I have finally decided to have boxes to plant in. I did years ago, but I never really liked them. They were 4 feet wide and not deep enough. A lady from our church has pictures of hers on Facebook. They are 2-1/2 feet wide and 12 deep. DS said he will make them for me. I have to decide how long they will be when he goes to price wood. I saw some for sale made out of vinyl, but I am worried about chemicals getting into the soil with that. I think with the price of renting a tiller and the amount of compost and manure I have to buy and then part of all that is lost in walkways, plus all the weeding, I am better off with the boxes. The walkways can just be mowed. Another problem I have are the fences. I need to put a barrier to stop weeds coming into the garden area. DD is going to have her husband make her a few more boxes. That is my new plan.

DD is going to have a 4D ultrasound next Saturday and DD, her husband, his mother, the kids and I are going to go and watch the babies and she will get pictures of them. I am paying for it for her. After I get that done then I am ordering things I need for the garden. I need new plastic for the outside greenhouse and I need to bring the inside back in from the garage and set the lights back up. I need to get potting soil and order seeds.

I was not sure I would have much of a garden this year with DD having twins, but they will be born in April, so I can get some things done early and just work around helping her and gardening. She thinks she will be up and about by June and she wants a garden and I am the one that starts the seedlings for us. We are going to have a busy year. Evelyn and Izzy are getting to be helpers. Wes is only 2 and he can keep anybody busy much less a mother pregnant with twins.

 

[Shades-of-Oregon]

@Gardening with Rabbits Sounds like a well thought out plan. What a nice family project. I have a Greenhouse 24 x 24’. It’s not that big but you’d be surprised all the seedlings I can start in a heated greenhouse with three tiers of shelves.
Congrats on the up coming birth of twins. you’ll have your hands full then…