[nicollo]

Mmmmm, Kay, that coffee is great! My biggest problem all week was how to crush the beans I'd bought on Tuesday... We've got a good stove-top coffee maker. Needless to say, my bean-smashing schemes all failed, and Maxwell House had to carry us through.

Utah Girl, the reading was great. My distemper at sunset was quelled by the discovery that the Container Store had 8 units in stock of the miner's lamp, a flashlight attached to a headband. They had 8 in stock before the storm. Seems that nobody figured on this for the storm. I got four. The store manager said he was going to put up a window display and order more.

With the miner's light you just sit back in your fave chair (my grandfather's, which is perfect), and let the 4-AA batteries and halogen lamp make that book alive. I re-read Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage" and otherwise spent my time in political theory books (...tedious... but great).

[Iowa Granny]

Happy to see you back. Good thinking on the miners cap. You simply do not see those for sale just anywhere.

[kayak]

My biggest problem all week was how to crush the beans I'd bought on Tuesday...

What you forgot to bring in was a 2-year-old ...... those beans would have been smashed in a heartbeat ..... *grins*

I would never have thought about a miner's light ...... what a grand idea!

Jane ~~~ take note of that idea.