Romance of Coffee

Hi there,

There are things I really enjoy doing and I have long wondered why. One of them is reading a good book that takes me for a few hours away from the reality of daily life. Not that I don’t enjoy my life or the people around me. It is a quiet whisper I enjoy the most. Like a long walk along the beach, with the salt water at my feet while a soft breeze blows by during the fall when the tourist are leaving my little town.

The first couple of months after school had started I would take my children to the beach after school. We’d stop at home change cloths and off to the beach, throwing the after school routine away. We’d grab a quick snack get our towels, sandals and head to the local beach where it was quiet. The water warm, the sun hot and the breeze soft, gentle. While my children would swim, surf, and just have a good time I would sometimes sit and reflect on how beautiful life is. Like prayer an intimate and personal part of life so are those moments. 

Romantic, idelic and filled with happiness. Listen to the children’s laughter, their screams of joy as for a moment the reality of summers end was gone. For that moment they were enjoying the freedom one only feels when one is a child. The freedom to spread ones wings and fly in the daily life provided. The walk with me during this time. I recall the treasure hunts on the beach of toys that where left behind from those that carried to many, the waves send them back to shore. Some seasons we would gather them up and donate them, other seasons there wasn’t anything to donate. It is these moments when one is spent, that thanksgiving is felt.

Is there romance in a cup of coffee? I asked often. I have never been one of those addicted to Starbucks, Peet’s, Tea Houses. I do on occasion stop at the local coffee shop and purchase a cup. Sit and draw or paint. The walks along the beach stopped. The fall is not here yet this year. The lives of ones young children grow up into the reality of adulthood. The needs and wants of the family changes. Mom’s get older. Dads get older. Now the hand of God changed. From taking care of my own children and savoring the long slow drink of a romantic coffee up to watching my own mom get older. Helping when she allows it. Her mind and the mind of her husband not all there, yet not willing to let me be myself and help.

So I sit and wait in the bedroom for the time to start again the things that I love, I enjoy. I wait. I now ask for prayer from those that asked of me. Who will save me from the reality before me...

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Where and When Does One Find The Christmas Spirt?

Hi there Diamond Glamour Girls;

Some people believe that the Christmas spirit is female and it just blows in.  Like nature. What do you believe?
Whoooooo! Soft and rental like winter snow! Others believe... you can buy it at your local coffee store.

Maybe the Christmas sprit come with a price tag?

If a cup of delicious  

warmth Is where 

you think you'll find 

it. Is it so?

Where is that spirit of Christmas? I want to hold it , own it control it? Tell it all kinds of things you'll never know. 

Maybe it's on the telephone wire you'll find it or is this the dirty laundry.  Is this where you find the spirit of Christmas? Ahh! Maybe, it's just decor. Do moose really exist at Christmas? What is the spirit of Christmas and where does it come from? 

You!

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Merry Christmas !

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The Almighty Coffee Pot Challenge ☕

Hi there, Diamond Glamour Girls;

I guess I should have posted this blog in the "Foodie" tab, I thought it was front page worthy. How many of you have an addiction? Yes. I know no one calls it that however that's what it was called in my youth. Ha!

I was at Target Stores the other day when I found myself STOPPED at appliances. How many different kinds of coffee makers are there for the average man. We know than families with money don't shop there. Plus their coffee pots have fancy names no one can pronounced.  Non-the-less there are: pods, filter drip, one cup at a time, expresso, cone drip, the ones they keep it warm all day, those with auto shut off, those that brew into computer cups, etc. Not sure how many I counted, I do know it was more than I thought.

I started thinking about what makes one coffee let's say Mr. Coffee think he's better thank a French Press? Why is Haliton Beach better than Cuisinart Brew? For that matter who has heard of Kursey, Bodum Bistro, Black & Decker, who can tell me? Maybe it's a YouTube question? In the world of tall, vente, mug, cup, expresso the questions of what type of coffee is not even questioned.

If I purchased lots amounts of coffee from Costco and tried these coffee pots out would it all taste the same? I put you to the challenge. If your willing. Let me know the results of which coffee pot from Target stores makes the best cup of coffee. When you find the answer let me know.

It was requested I post the rules.
1.  Purchase your favorite coffee flavor from Costco or local store.
2. If you use cream purchase that.
3. Make the coffee and then taste. What you judge it on will be taste, flavor, bitterness, smoothness, temperature, features, pricing and value for your money.


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