One of those irritating mornings
It has been very hot work gardening these past few weeks and I have been working on my own garden on the weekends and all last week I was prepping for a class I taught yesterday (30 plants, 3 hours, 11 Master Gardeners, 2 garden tours) and I AM EXHAUSTED. So this morning, I lay in until 9am. It was bliss. When I got up I thought I'd just make myself a coffee and some toast. Then is all went pear-shaped. I had to finish putting away yesterday's dishes (a couple of day's worth) to get to the coffee grinder, then I found myself doing up last night's dishes. I stopped partway through to grind the coffee and halfway through the grind I realized that it was our decaf that has been lurking about in the bottom of the coffee crock for ah-ges. So I interrupted the grind tried to dump the unground back into the bag. Mistake. Somehow I created a dusting of ground coffee and partial bits of beans everywhere, but mostly on the floor and the newly cleaned dishes. And then I thought, since there is so little decaf left, I may as well grind it all and put the extra in the bag and make a pot of it for me anyway. So, I dumped the beans back into the grinder and continued cleaning. The grinder started to make a really odd sound. The coffee still seemed to be grinding, so I thought maybe it had hit a hard bean. When it finished and I looked at the grinder I realized that a piece of the plastic from the base had torn off and was being ground with the beans. Yikes. I made the mistake of turning the grinder over. Coffee everywhere, again. In my cleaning up, I decided I had better clean the hopper and the rest of the grinder too. And the shoot. There is alot of coffee that gets clogged in a shoot. Coffee everywhere, again. Sigh. Anyway, the dishes are now done, the counters are wiped and the water is on the boil. Now onto breakfast. No bread. Just one old hotdog bun left over from last week's youth group event. Decaf coffee with ground plastic and a stale hotdog bun. One and a half hours later. And, I actually got up at 8, but went back to bed again. Can you start a day a third time?
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