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11/30/2003 Archived Entry: "SUNDAY MORNING"

SUNDAY MORNING

Coffee is brewed around here each morning rather irregularly. It's the only time we make coffee unless we have guests for dinner and they want it.

Since Brit's retirement ten years ago, he has made the morning coffee more frequently than I. Usually I'm up much earlier and don't want to rattle around in the kitchen and disturb him and Jack so I trudge silently in my 30 year old Indian mukluks to the basement and plop in front of my computer. Later, sometimes hours later but always about 7:30, he makes the coffee. He and Jack bring me a hot mug and we exchange greetings of the day. That includes hugs and a Beggin' Strip for Jack.

We're both morning people and very glad of it. I can't imagine having to live with someone who was grumpy or sullen in the morning. What a waste of a good morning.

Many mornings, like today, our schedules coincide so I make the coffee. I like to know what it is I'm drinking. Brit methodically measures the coffee, teaspoonful by teaspoonful, while I dump coffee into the basket until it's almost full. The results are decidedly different. If I'm going to drink it, no matter what it is, I like it strong. Maybe that's why I think Rich Vargo makes the best fruity wine in the world. Maybe that's why I have so much difficulty drinking water. Probably it relates to my shattered taste buds. Poor Brit is "wired" for the day on the mornings I fix the coffee. One 12 cup pot takes us zooming through the day!