It's tool time

I have one of those coffee makers that has its own grinder. I love the smell of fresh coffee beans in the morning and having a good ol cup while I remind myself to smile and say thank you.

I also have a separate grinder I've used for at least 50 years.... toted it about everywhere. It was a free gift with an order my parents received sometime in the 60s with their vitamin order...

I paid a bazillion dollars for this fancy schmancy coffee maker. It's hard to clean. I'm lazy. So... I dragged out my old and trusted grinder. It finally croaked yesterday morning. So, I used the fancy schmancy one that's an all in one step deal. Just a real pain to clean.... anyway, couldn't remember if I was supposed to leave the gold basket filter in or take it out.

I don't know why this occurred to me. But, it did. I left it out. Coffee was all over the counter. Messy, hot stuff to clean up when all I wanted was my morning smells of fresh brewed coffee. Not much to ask so I can resume my smiling. Seemed I remember reading that you don't need the filter blah blah blah... so without coffee stimulation ... I just assumed I didn't need it --- doesn't make a whit of sense to me now why I thought such.... I have since found out that you don't need the gold filter with a paper filter... SIGH

However! why in the world would not putting this filter in the basket cause such a todo? just doesn't seem right.... I had a busy day yesterday or I would have pondered that more. I woke up a little after 5 this morning ... made coffee - with the filter. I'm better. Really helps me move along when nothing goes wrong with having a cup of coffee in the mornings. And, I'm smiling.

I had too much of a day yesterday to write about it now. I need another cup of coffee and ponder s'more.

Just my ongoing quest to understand life and its subsidiaries... life is amazing for anyone who might read this. Life is full of wonder. It's exhausting, amazing, scary, respulsive, intimidating, aggravating, breathtaking, sad, happy, maddening, curious, full of learning experiences, and why in the living breathing hell does U-verse TV just suddenly go away and you have to click OK 97 times for it to come back on. So far, I've clicked okay FIVE times ... right in the middle of something I was listening to while typing this.

My brain needs several things to do at once or it goes insane r.

The dawn is here and I'm going to open the blinds and go on the little ol front porch I have and breathe a bit and say hello to a tree. Needs to be done. Tools.... we all have coping tools... if I can't see or hear an ocean wave? I gotta say hey to a tree.