Morning Coffee
At morning's first light we can clearly see a yellow tint in the tree leaves on the mountain slopes. The sugar maple growing just down the hill in a rock is always the first to turn and its top is now brushed in scarlet. The woods ferns are on their last breaths of summer and will be gone within the week. Indeed autumn is in the mountain air. My favorite time of year!
The wind has settled down considerably but the temperature was at 40°F when I awoke. And, that calls for a cup of coffee. Seems, however, my departure 17 days ago may have been a tad too hasty because I found coffee in the pot and coffee grounds in the filter. Folks, I didn't know you could grow that many kinds of molds with coffee. The surface of the coffee looked as if it were laboratory experiment gone terribly wrong with colonies of mold in every hue imaginable. The filter was populated with a mold that looked as if it were a three-dimensional spider web constructed by a spider on LSD. There's even a white mold on the thing that holds the coffee filter. So, here I am with a big decision to make before I've had a cup of coffee. Do I put the whole thing in the dishwasher and wait a half hour to begin making the coffee or do I give it a "hit and a miss" in the sink and have coffee in five minutes that might kill me. That was an easy one. The coffee tastes might good but if I die in the next few days, you will know why.
It was just too chilly this morning for my usual breakfast of Cherrios with cold milk. Fortunately, I had stopped at the Food Lion in Yadkinville last night and bought a tube of Odom's "Tennessee Pride" sausage and some eggs. Now. I'm a diehard Neese's sausage guy but the Odom's was on sale for 79 cents a pound less than Neese's. I would not have made the switch for 29 cents but to a retired person 79 cents is another matter altogether. Besides, the package said "Tennessee Pride" also includes hams and tenderloins along with the pig lips and other sundry pig parts. (Neese's is whole hog.)
Turns out that Odom's "Tennesse Pride" is a pretty good sausage with less fat than Neese's. And, Sam loved it.
The wind has settled down considerably but the temperature was at 40°F when I awoke. And, that calls for a cup of coffee. Seems, however, my departure 17 days ago may have been a tad too hasty because I found coffee in the pot and coffee grounds in the filter. Folks, I didn't know you could grow that many kinds of molds with coffee. The surface of the coffee looked as if it were laboratory experiment gone terribly wrong with colonies of mold in every hue imaginable. The filter was populated with a mold that looked as if it were a three-dimensional spider web constructed by a spider on LSD. There's even a white mold on the thing that holds the coffee filter. So, here I am with a big decision to make before I've had a cup of coffee. Do I put the whole thing in the dishwasher and wait a half hour to begin making the coffee or do I give it a "hit and a miss" in the sink and have coffee in five minutes that might kill me. That was an easy one. The coffee tastes might good but if I die in the next few days, you will know why.
It was just too chilly this morning for my usual breakfast of Cherrios with cold milk. Fortunately, I had stopped at the Food Lion in Yadkinville last night and bought a tube of Odom's "Tennessee Pride" sausage and some eggs. Now. I'm a diehard Neese's sausage guy but the Odom's was on sale for 79 cents a pound less than Neese's. I would not have made the switch for 29 cents but to a retired person 79 cents is another matter altogether. Besides, the package said "Tennessee Pride" also includes hams and tenderloins along with the pig lips and other sundry pig parts. (Neese's is whole hog.)
Turns out that Odom's "Tennesse Pride" is a pretty good sausage with less fat than Neese's. And, Sam loved it.
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