Posts Tagged ‘ Coffee ’

A Weekend in New York

September 7, 2009
By Jim

For my mother’s 70th birthday we went to New York City. How do you get more than 20 must-dos done in less than 60 hours? Left pdx at 6am and arrived at Laguardia 4:25 Crying started at 4:15 when we first saw Manhatten. So what are those cool bridges and what neighborhoods did we...
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Coffee Pots

March 23, 2005
By Jim

What has happened to coffee pots. It use to be that a coffee pot was a big metal urn that held about 5 gallons of coffee. Then we started to move to drip makers that held 10 “cups” of coffee, then high end super elegent single cup auto-magic espresso machines. Today I ran across...
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Walking in the rain

September 13, 2004
By Jim

We slept a straight 12 hours, got up and headed out for a walk. Since I’d only had half a cup of coffee and no breakfast I wasn’t sure how far I wanted to go. So we settled on a 1 mile walk to a half mile nature loop. It had lightly rained off...
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15-2, 15-4, and a pair is 6

August 7, 2004
By Nadya

We hosted a cribbage party last night. Six people playing cribbage while one or two watch makes a surprising amount of noise. Maybe it was because we were all around the dining room table. Maybe it was the bottle of Macallan Don brought. A few people refreshed their memory on the rules, a few...
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