Earth Ocean Sky Redux

For Your Car’s Next 3000 Mile Oil Change!

Earth Ocean Sky Redux — Sun, 20 May 2012 10:45:04 +0000

My brand new Cuisinart percolator, as shiny and pretty as it looked out of the box…..

….makes s-l-u-d-g-e for coffee.

I’ve made coffee three times with it. Three times too many. The first two with Starbucks beans that I ground myself, each of those two experimenting with how coarse or fine to grind the beans. A mouthful of coffee grinds and toast do not a good combination make.

So for the heck of it, I tried using pre-ground coffee, some Folgers I had in the fridge.

The Folgers also left tons of ground all over the inside of the percolator and worse, a double whammy, The Cuisinart perks the coffee to such a high temperature, there was zero coffee taste, or that good coffee smell.

My love affair with the Cuisinart is over. Back to the tried and true Chemex. I am sorry I gave up on you for someone new. But I am back and back to stay. Forgive me.

Tagged: Food, Home, Humor

I’m Coming Back as a Pink Peony

Earth Ocean Sky Redux — Sat, 19 May 2012 23:51:26 +0000

And the first rose of the season…

Tagged: Gardening, Nature, photography

Open That Awning Lady and I’ll Poop on Your Head

Earth Ocean Sky Redux — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:45:09 +0000

By sheer happenstance I looked UP before opening the awning over the living room because I thought I heard chirping. Lo and behold, mom, staring down at me with beady eyes, and lots of babies. I couldn’t see how many and can’t get high enough or over the awning to see the babies, but suffice it to say I have removed the remote awning control from the room until the babies fly away.

Phew, that was close.

Tagged: Humor, Nature

And So Goes The Circle

Earth Ocean Sky Redux — Sat, 19 May 2012 09:00:56 +0000

I am struck by the fact that on different pieces of the same property in Bedford, two very separate and distinct events will take place today.

St. Patrick’s Church will be filled with mourners at the Mary Kennedy funeral. Surely not a dry eye in the house after her sudden and tragic death.

And barely one hundred feet away, on the grounds of the Church School, the annual carnival. Children, full of merriment.

One has to wonder if the joyous sounds from the carnival will spill over into the church service……and if it does, maybe, just maybe, that’s how Mary’s family would want it.

Tagged: bedford, Death, happiness, Life, sorrow

Why Make This Doohickey If You Can’t USE It Anymore?

Earth Ocean Sky Redux — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:24:17 +0000

The little slidey thing that in the old days used to lock into a groove, permitting you to stand and look cool while the gas pumped itself. It would click off when the tank was full but now, no matter where I go for gasoline, not one pump allows for locking the slide anymore.

Further, you can’t even use your gas cap anymore as a wedge. Illegal? In New York? Nationwide? Pure hype?

It’s a conspiracy. Car manufacturers make it impossible to use the cap anyway. Mine has a tip at the end so it couldn’t sit properly as a wedge.

I suppose someone somewhere wasn’t paying attention and the gas tank spilled over and they got burned and sued and now we have regulations. That’s how it seems to work in the United States anymore. Sigh.

So I want to know. Why does the pump even have the slide? Whatever company makes it is getting rich for something that does nothing. Hey, that sounds great. What I invent that is useless and get paid to make it?

Tagged: automobiles, Humor, Life