Category: Humor

Memory Maker

Dec 8
In other news…what a three-ringed circus it was making our afternoon coffee yesterday when we discovered that our former Mr. Coffee suddenly went kaput. I pulled out this vintage aluminum dripolator that I had stashed in the back of a kitchen cupboard, and between the three of us (me, Mike, and a YouTube video) we figured out how to use it enough to eek out two cups.
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The struggle with this very simple piece of kitchen memorabilia, made us both feel like a couple of dummies, but after yesterday’s fiasco, we were smart enough to know we had been beaten and needed to buy a new coffee maker. Chances are we will forget the new machine as quickly as we have forgotten all the former ones, but the little bit of a memory made over the little aluminum coffee maker, standing front and center in this photo, will stick with us long after this newly bought machine behind it decides its brewing days are over.

Musing at the lake…

“Don’t rescue this ma’am reclined in the sand,
She has no regrets as her chair seat gets wet;


Don’t run out to save her feet drowning in waves,
She’s dug in her heels and loves how it feels;


Don’t shield or delay the soft wind in her face,
Let its fingers of air, restyle her white hair.


In her mind, she’s creating a stir;
This is living out loud, for her;


Don’t call her away from the edge of the lake,
From the bees and the trees, and the breeze on her knees,


Don’t call her away from the edge of the lake,
Where the neighboring crowds,
Are just silent, white clouds;


In her mind, she’s creating a stir;
This is living out loud, for her;


She’s forsaking the shade, for invisible rays,
Drenched in the heat, ‘til her skin shouts, “Retreat!”


So don’t go ashore, keep submerging your oar;
Don’t yell, “You’ll get burned!”
She’s not young, she has learned;


Don’t wade out to say, “It’s not prudent to stay.”
Or, “You’re out of your mind.”, ‘cause she’s doing fine;


She’s having her fun, in this season of sun,
An introvert’s dream, coming true, so it seems;


She’s safe, let her be…
Washed in Vitamin D…


On this Grade-A, laid-back Saturday… 
She’s tossed every caution away…
No need for medicinal aid…


The lake is her tonic today.” 

DDC August 2020