I wake up pretty early most days, sometimes as early as 3:00am. I don't set the alarm any more, when we moved to the country it was basically for me to be able to do things like garden and get back into doing things I wanted to do. The quiet time of the day...is when I first get up, I fix coffee first thing. I usually don't sit down long to drink it though, a few sips and I usually start in on chores. I am dead tired by the end of the day so I usually leave the dinner dishes until in the morning. I start cleaning the kitchen and doing dishes and wiping down counters and such. Then I rest a few and drink my coffee.
Some days I don't even get half of my coffee down...because when I have baby chicks I start checking on them, cleaning the brooders, filling their waterers and food up. Right now I have 14 chicks less than a week old in a brooder in the bathroom of our office. I have a double decker brooder that I built on the back porch with 12 chicks in each section. Today I am writing before checking on them, but soon I will get to work on everything...after I finish this cup of coffee.
My husband use to work for a very large Corporation, he likes the finer things in life...when I met him, he had this coffee maker that you basically set the timer, filled a hopper with coffee beans and water, then in the morning it would grind the beans and brew the coffee and be waiting for you when you got up. It is the best coffee I ever had, we experimented with different brands of coffee and found one we really both like, it is chocolate raspberry flavored. I look forward to my cup of coffee every morning, sometimes I will drink it and watch the sun come up and listen to my roosters crow.
I prepared the coffee maker last week, filled it with water, put the beans in it and turned it on...then because I had cleaned the kitchen before bed, I started my daily chores with the chicks. I didn't get the coffee myself. The coffee maker had sprung a bit of a leak and I had a tray underneath it to catch the leak. I came in the living room after feeding, watering and changing out the bedding for the chicks, turning the eggs in the incubator and candling a few to see the progress of the egg development. I rested. My husband walks into the kitchen and hollers "Honey"...and I immediately think I forgot to turn on the coffee pot, or put coffee beans in the hopper...but, that was not the case...I knew I did both this time. He said come here for a minute...so, I did.
There was a big mess everywhere. The basket to the coffee maker had sprung out sometime during the process. I am glad the tray was under the coffee maker. But now we had coffee grounds and coffee in the tray, the drip basket was full and a mess was on the counter. He tried pushing the basket back in...it did not stay. He cleaned it up, but we knew the coffee maker was done, over, finito...no more good coffee. I pulled out the Mr.Coffee and ground some beans and started a new pot of coffee.
You get spoiled sometimes, you get use to things you like and you don't want them to change...good coffee is one of them for me. The coffee out of the Mr. Coffee tasted weak, it was also slightly bitter...neither of us enjoyed it. We thought we would just live with it, the coffee maker that failed was a luxury item. Since we moved out here we have pretty much eliminated luxury items. So, all week I tried to make the coffee taste better. Ground more beans, experimented with trying to make it less bitter, more bold flavor, used different water...filtered verses tap, cold from the fridge, room temperature from the Berky water filter. It finally started tasting a bit better...then the Mr.Coffee quit working...it stopped pumping the water. I ordered a new Grind and Brew like we had...in the mean time, I am drinking coffee that is not so great tasting made by pouring hot water through a filter basket.
The new coffee maker should be here today.
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